He didn't call..and neither should you

A lack of qualifications in digital electronics has not prevented Ms Robinson knowing that staring at your phone will not make someone call. While some women realise this is a good time to slink away with their dignity intact, there are many who see it as a signal to advance further onto what has now become shaky ground. The plan seems to be that if they continue to relentlessly call, text and email they will remind their date how wonderful they are because, somehow, he must have forgotten. How did that happen? Oh yes, he had such a good time he got early onset Alzheimers. See where I’m headed? Don’t make me hit you over the head with it.

One acquaintance of Ms Robinson’s could not believe she was not getting a second date and invoked the Law of What Happens in the Movies as her get out clause insisting that something must have happened to her date for him not to call. The chances that he, like Deborah Kerr in An Affair to Remember, had been knocked over and was now languishing in the corridor of some NHS hospital pining for her were pretty much nil.

There are many reasons why a meeting seemingly packed full of all the essential ingredients –laughter, sex, mutual love of cats - may not result in another. Here are some of them:

• He suddenly remembers he’s married
• His girlfriend is back from holiday tomorrow
• He’s testing the market to see what else is out there before he jumps from his current relationship
• He’s trying out women who aren’t his usual type
• He went home and realised he had a type and you were not it
• You reminded him of his last girlfriend
• He decided you would be too good for him since he is a bastard
• He likes you too much already and he’d feel bad going out with other people because you are so nice
• He didn’t like you in the first place but he figured he’d get laid. He did and now he’s off to do it again
• You said ‘us’

Ms Robinson is not interested in the rights and wrongs of any of these and neither you should you be. You can’t – I repeat – can’t control what anyone else thinks or why they think it. Sometimes in life, shit happens. And frankly this isn’t shit. It’s just dating.