Off-Topic General Discussion - Page 1625

So I fell asleep watching a stream and wake up to my roommate knocking on my door. After I let him in he starts going on about some white chick he met(he's got a white chick fetish). Then he starts asking me all the hypothetical "Would you"s, and mentions that she'll be at a party a mutual friend is holding the next friday. I'm half awake so I'm barely keeping up with the whole thing, eventually start giving him the "uh-huh" treatment and then fall back to sleep.

Cut to the next morning I go through my bookmarks which takes me to facebook, which leads me to an event page for the party where this chick responded to it. All I can remember is that it seemed like my roommate seemed like he wanted to wingmate me on this and she's kinda cute. So I text him telling her that I agree that's she's attractive. He responds that he was waiting on her response on him asking her out. Then I remember that he mentioned it the night before and I swear that stupid record halt cliche plays in my head and I just go "woah, let's just back the hell up and avoid the whole thing." After all, I have known this guy since 2nd grade. So I get to the party and this girl looks a lot better than she did on Facebook. I do my best to be polite but general try to not interact with her, despite her acting more open with me than him.

The Monday after, he and I go out to eat because he got out of work early and he's been working stupid hours at his new job and wants to do something other than come home, eat, and go to sleep. So, he's asking for advice again in "would you"s again while I try to emphasis my advice with "If I were you"s. Then he just stops talking for a few seconds while staring outside and then says "honestly, I think you two would make a better couple than me and her." At this point I felt obliged to tell him that I was interested in her but I wasn't going to be that guy... or say nothing and hate myself forever. Of course when I open my mouth to speak he gets a phone call and has to leave the table, where I'm wondering what fucking anime I ended up in that this shit actually happens at the "perfect" timing. He doesn't bring it up again and I have trouble finding a good time until the ride home.

I can tell he's feeling super negative about them so despite him saying he wouldn't care if I tried to talk to her if they didn't work, I keep reinforcing what he wants. About a week later he comes home annoyed at her for poor communication(which honestly is a two way street with how I know he is acting) and says he's washing his hands of the situation and to go ahead if I want to. However, he also bring up his theory that the mutual friend is trying to hook up with her despite being in a relationship himself. He's a pretty paranoid guy, he assumes everybody that gives him a weird look is doing it because he's asian(and to be fair, he dealt with a lot of discrimination due to race/weight/etc as a kid.) Yet, our mutual friend did some shit recently where while I want to give him the benefit of the doubt, I wouldn't put it past him. So now instead of going throught the mutual friend so I'm in a hangout situation around her so I can ask in person, I have to go through the impersonal bitch mode facebook IM system.

Aaand here we are.