The Wake-up Call

I have just had my equivalent of Archimedes's 'Eureka!' moment. My discovery is a lot humbler than buoyancy though. I recently saw a marriage invite from a frienemy and suddenly found myself reminiscing about my own past dates, more precisely the time when I had only just begin talking to the guys without having gone out with them ever.

Its struck me quite suddenly that while dating, most of the time I got involved/found myself (in the power of!lol!) for a long/short/fleeting period of time with unremarkable guys who I did not find overwhelmingly attractive in the beginning but all of who had the same innocent sounding request to make.

They've all asked me for a wake-up a call for the next day. This is around the second or third time that I have spoken to them over the phone or chatted over the net or while among a group of friends.

I used to find the wake-up call request a bit odd initially but didn't want to draw much attention to it(or to myself by saying no) cause it wasn't as if I was being asked to lay down my life (which they usually do,especially towards the end). I thought it was probably usual and I didn't want to be the girl who sat reading too much into a silly little wake-up call. After all, its just a wake-up call,right? Doesn't even take two seconds!

When you're a teenager, you are acutely conscious of people labeling you as something or the other if you did something no one else does. In order to substantiate this statement,let me go down in my history when I got my hair colored (which was a disaster)in college and was henceforth called "Miss BlondIntelligent" (spelt like that). For the hundredth time,the color was not blonde! That title was put together by another unremarkable guy who thankfully I do not have the misfortune of having given a wake-up call.

Its a crafty trick but does not require a lot of wit. You want to register in someone's mind, you give them a task that they have to do by a certain time. The person will spare you at least two or three thoughts where they wouldn't have any,had you not asked for something. Plus you become the one who called!

This realization has not been pleasant but its been funny. I wish I'd smarten up already! Tired of being the naive one!

As of the last guy who asked me for a wake-up call, I said yes to the request and then proceeded to forget all about it. Guy wants wake-up call, guy buys rooster!

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