At work, a woman I thought was a friend begged me to go to the movies with her, and a male employee, who asked her to go and she agreed. This Wednesday evening. Really, she doesn't want to go at all, and wants me to go to be a buffer. We are all over 45.
I said no, she kept nagging, so to be polite I said I would think about it. By the way she is married, I am too, and he is not. I have no intentions of going, as I don't even like this guy. It would be a friends-only thing, but even then I don't want to spend an evening this way.
Other employees think she has some nerve and I am sensible not to go. I think if I agreed, she would back out and leave me stuck. Any way it happened, someone would wind up hurt or embarrassed, as I am now, and I didn't even do anything to bring this on.
I feel like she sees me as some dumb sucker she can rope into this. Why would someone do this?
Is there anything else I can or should do or say, besides be firmer about my intent NOT to go?
2007-08-12
03:20:03
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danashelchan
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