In defense of Luke

[captain_slinky]

All season long he's been under the impression that everything was "just fine". Lorelie was the one who suggested postponing the wedding, not him. And whenever he would ask her "Are you sure you're okay with this" about ANYTHING, she would always reply with "Oh, yeah, totaly okay with it!"

Then she avoided him for a few days. Didn't return phone calls, had friends lie to him about where she was... she just completely shut him out.

Then, VERY unexpectedly she bursts in to the diner, OBVIOUSLY over emotional over something, and demands that he elope with her RIGHT NOW. Don't think about it, don't ask and questions, just do it NOW or LOSE ME.

Now let me take you back in time in my own personal private life, when I had an on-line relationship with a girl named Kelly in New York. I was infatuated with Kelly. Sent her presents all the time, made web sites devoted to her, and spent MANY LONG HOURS of the phone with her long-distance, both from home and from work.

One day, she called me at work and she was in tears. She wouldn't go in to any details, asked to not ask any questionsbut over and over she asked me to fly out to New York and "Sweep her off her feet", take her away from it all, make the lonliness and longing stop.

And so I did. My first trip west of Idaho was a middle-of-the-night flight to New York! The entire flight I was excited to finally hold her in my arms and sweep her off her feet just as she had requested. But when I got there, things were much colder. She had brought her Mother with her, and aparently The Mother was the only reason Kelly showed up at all. She had wanted to just ditch me there because after I was on the plane she started having second thoughts and didn't want me to come after all.

So I spent one lonely night in a cheap hotel room in New York, then flew back home in the morning (a ticket her family paid for out of guilt).

The lesson I learned that week? NEVER make a life-altering decision based on the words or actions of someone who seems overly emotional at the time. Wait until you can talk about it rationally, or you'l end up lowing your life savings on a last-minute ticket to New York and a crappy hotel room to be alone in.

Comments

[jaketheranger.livejournal.com]

I chased a girl to Vienna, once, for many of same reasons. Austria. Really. The results were about what you'd expect...possibly worse. Probably worse, but I won't pick a scar that's all pink and healed over. I made lemonade out of those lemons and had the adventure of a lifetime (and some of the most sordid, tawdry encounters ensued, concurrently). Being rational is all well and good but, especially when you're young, to do something crazy out of passion or recklessness is some of the best ways to truly experience what's available in life. Foolish, maybe. To bleed is to live, and if you bleed for a worthy cause, more is the better.

That being said, they ain't kids anymore. Grow up already!

Also, it's quick freakin' plane ride to England from New York. What the hell is Rory complaining about. Sheesh.

[nani-ka.livejournal.com]

Maaaaaaan....

If you're gonna be stuck in New York you should at least have the chance to go do stupid tourist stuff...

[spazzychic.livejournal.com]

When the fantasy of a faraway lover threatens to be a reality of an actual human, women have a tendancy to freak out. Or maybe they like the idea and like to complain but don't actually want that fantasy to be fufilled. I have heard of a number of long-distance relationships going this way...mostly with the man holding the (often very expensive) bag.

:/

[supernovame.livejournal.com]

i had something very similar happen to me, flew to south dakota. got stood up. spent a week in a koa campground, made a lot of friends, had some wild adventures. you got a better moral out of it than i. i thought the lesson was, women go crazy sometimes and you need to give 'em space and let 'em, and not worry about it until they want you to, move on if they are done with you, and have fun along the way.

[captain-slinky.livejournal.com]

What a very submissive lesson!

[the-4th-doctor.livejournal.com]

I saw the header to this post and my first thought was, "Wait, what did I do?"

[teegin.livejournal.com]

Hey if it hadn't been for stupid moves I never would have had my short couple year stint as a Canadian music roadie, where by the way the true meaning of Canadian girl’s rock comes into true fruition. That being said as long as you can take that stupid move and come out of it with a really kick ass story to tell later about an outrageous adventure of spontaneity your doing fine. At that point you get some buddies together with large quantities of beer or other alcoholic endeavors and proceed to do something even dumber. Ah the circle of life and male stupidity is the glue of the verse.