I Heard a Young Guy Say This to His Girlfriend
I wanted to tell her to run for her life.
I’m sitting at the bar in the restaurant attached to my building. It’s happy hour but I’m not drinking. I’m getting a salad, and doing some work on my laptop.
A young couple sits next to me.
It’s obvious they’re in the infancy of their relationship.
They chat with me for a few minutes, and we laugh together. Their banter is cute. They’re adorable in every sense of the word. I’m happy for them.
Until…
I hear the guy say, “Women getting in accidents, shocking.”
He’s insinuating that women are terrible drivers.
I can’t help but look over at him to reassess his age. Why? Because I would hope something this archaic wouldn’t exit a young man’s mouth. This mentality sounds like a disrespectful old guy.
And not a guy in his late 20s.
I want to tell this girl to run for her life.
I married a man who made jokes like this. I reacted the same way this young girl did. I laughed. I was easygoing. It seemed like my boyfriend and then-husband was being funny.
He wasn’t.
