feckless

[kate_spencer]

We'd known each other for years.  Decades really.

It'd gone from co-workers to friends.  From nights out after work to talking about kids and schools and getting old.

I didn't think anything of it when I asked him to work on a project for work and he asked if I wanted to go with him on it.

I didn't really need to, but it sounded fun to get out

Comments

[nikkiii_brown]

Wow! What a jerk!

[alycewilson]

Sadly, this brings up a "me too" moment. My story is a bit different. I was in college, and this guy and I had both been in a drum and bugle corps for a couple years together, during which time I was dating the drum major. It was my freshman year in college, and I wasn't allowed to have a car on campus. We'd both been home for the weekend for a drum corps event, and he was attending a university not too far from mine, so he offered to give me a ride to my campus, since the drum major wasn't able to. I'd been on friendly terms with this guy, but definitely never flirtatious. In fact, he wasn't one of the guys in the drum corps that I talked to an awful lot, though everyone was friendly in the corps. We spent most of the trip talking about how roads are designed (he was going to school to be an engineer), and because of the association, I've never been able to forget that they have a slight rise in the middle of the road so that the water runs off the sides

[banana_galaxy]

I've ruminated on things like this before too. It's challenging. But I think these actions say more about the person taking them than who they're directed towards.

[marlawentmad]

Agreed.

[rayaso]

The guy was an ass, no question. I was worried that he would be physically inappropriate as well.

[karmasoup]

You're very fortunate he didn't make things more uncomfortable in the work environment afterwards. If it were me, I would also block him on social media to avoid having those feelings flare up again at random times whenever you happen to run across some connection to him. I hate when that happens.