[Overpaid Slacker]

This first one was conducted by text message:

ME: Hey, check X out. I'm thinking about buying it!

HER: I have a friend who owned an X. I can ask him about it if you'd like.

ME: Great! Please ask him to call me to discuss X ownership! Thanks

(10 minutes)

HER: He sold the X.

ME: OK. Is he going to call me?

HER: For what?

ME: (resending prior text) To discuss X ownership. Do you even READ my text messages?

HER: I tried do do something nice for you and you're upset? I thought you wanted to buy X.

ME: It was a considerate offer, but I asked you specifically to ask him to call me, which was what I was interested in, and would be helpful, and which you didn't do. You did something nice, but useless. I didn't want to buy his X; where did that idea come from? I don't care if he HAS an X anymore, I care about discussing X ownerhip.

This degenerated into "if you think I'm so stupid, why do you date me?"

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Then, just a few minutes ago we were discussing on the phone whether to go Toledo tonight (on last second notice) to pick up a car I bought.

ME: Well, we could go tonight, but I'd rather wait a couple of weeks and plan to go, instead of having to pull this together at the last second.

HER: Me too; I'd rather go tonight.

ME: Wait, what? That's exactly not what I just said.

HER: No, you just said you wanted to go tonight.

ME: Holy. ****. Are you kidding me? (I repeat word for word what I'd said). How do you get from that that I want to go tonight?

HER: Don't talk to me like I'm stupid.

ME: Oh, so you're getting that vibe but you couldn't get what I'd actually said ten seconds ago?

OK -- I didn't say the last part, but I was thinking it. Nor did I say "then don't "listen" like you're stupid".

It is unbelievable. Is it this bad all over -- I mean I know men/women have difficulty "communicating" but this has to set a new standard. I'm reasonably concise, no?

JP