Lunch, like food? Or lunch like, you know, other stuff?

Before we get to the comments about Saturday's entry, I have to report this tangentially related conversation. A friend and I were passing three people, two women and a man, and overhead one of the women saying this:

"That's because we're women and we can multi-task. You're a man so you can only, you just, you're just a dumbass."

I'm not sure what the topic was, but I know we guys can often be described that way. Anyway, regarding the story in Saturday's post about the woman who agreed to lunch, but turned out to be engaged, one visitor offers this possible explanation:

"Also, you're sure "lunch" proposed in the queue sounded the same as "lunch" proposed on the phone? There's lunch and there's, y'know, lunch.

Maybe I'm being too generous and she really is a flake, but I'd just want to be quite certain that it wasn't you who changed from bakery to phone."

Well, I know I changed from excited, in person, to nervous, on the phone. But I tried to sound excited. More importantly, I don't think I was couching the original invitation in any "co-worker/friend/discuss something" package that was suddenly unwrapped. But it could have come across that way, anyway. Because I'm a guy and, well, a dumbass.

posted by dan @ 11:13 AM