Call, for fuck's sake!

So, date two has come and gone, rather successfully, and a third hovers somewhere on the unspecified horizon.

Now, I'm luckier than the average girl because I have this -- a mighty, mighty good decoder ring -- available for The Guy to peruse and see what it is I dig or don't. Because The Guy has a functioning Brain and Powers of Recall, he plays his cards rather well. Such as, calling The Next Day after Date One, and emailing me to thank me for my presence immediately after Date Two. I'm such a sucker for communication.

If you are a guy, and you're trying to do the whole play-it-cool bullshit, here's a clue. Most chicks will fucking LOVE YOU if you call. Why? Because suspense might be nice at Christmas time, but it really, really sucks if you're digging someone after a date and you haven't heard from them as to whether or not the diggage was mutual. Call. Email. Whatever the hell it takes, and everyone will be all the happier because The Bullshit Factor is cut by half. Plus, there's the added bonus of anticipation.

Anticipation? It rocks. Knowing a date -- a kiss, a cuddle, a grope, a lay -- looms on the horizon is a turn on. Suspense, or as I like to call it: Unknowing, takes joy away from things. If you think you're adding fuel to the fire with "suspense," you're not. You're complicating things and setting the groundwork for what will essentially be a whole lot of head games.

Forget about "being cool." Be straight up. I'm personally so sick of all that shit that if a guy DIDN'T call the next day, I'd probably write him off. My time's too valuable for someone who doesn't know how to clue me in that a good time was had for all. I'll do my part, he better do his.

Needless to say, not an issue with The Guy thus far, so things are swimming along nicely -- a fine happening in time for the first day of Spring, no?

(Now, there could be a "why can't she call?" line of questioning from the guys out there, and you bloody well know why -- she'll get perceived as needy or clingy, even if it's not the case. If you boys could stop having such narrow perceptions about chicks that call you, then maybe things would be simpler for you. Unfortunately, yer species' track record makes it just a tad too iffy for us girlies to take the lead there. As much as some of us might like to. And if, perchance, you luck out and get a chick who's brazen enough to be open and communicative via giving you the call, and she's not needy, then at least have the smarts to see it for what it is -- a chick who's willing to help you reduce the Bullshit Factor.)