guys asking you out for a joke
I'm 13.
Maybe the guys, like you, are still kids. People of that age don't always seem to plan ahead very well, so it may be that at least some of them ask you out first, then ask their parents for date money, get told 'No', and then treat it all like a joke just to save themselves the embarrassment of admitting that they are too poor to date a fine, young girl like you.
Anyway, that's just my opinion.
We don't really have actual dates, people are just said to be "going out with" someone, but they don't actually go out anywhere together. So the question is never, "Want to hang out some time?" it's, "Will you go out with me?" which is more direct.
We really are a county full of cheapskates arent we!
Good old Yorkshire
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As for the answer to your question it seems to be more a local thing round here "so and so is with so and so" even though they dont actually go out together etc ... don't see that many younger kids together in other areas (Perhaps this doesnt help our shockingly high teenage pregnancy rate). When you get a bit older though things will probably start to fall into place better for you and you should find someone you love a lot more than the "Messy Relationships" kids have.
Ok with my life at the moment im probably not the best person to comment on things like this but oh well ... im entitled to my say.
I've had it happen. It made me paranoid to go out with any guy.
All you can do is at least try but I'll have to say, that kind of stuff hurts and I think it does a lot to your psyche if you're the sensative type like me. I had trouble in going on dates whenever asked. I think I let it get to me too much.
My only answere is just realize that even dates involve rejection but there's always a potential somewhere out there so if it is a trick try not to let it get to you or take it into deep like I did.
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I'm 13.
Hmm. Yeah, by the time you get to seventeen I don't think any guys your age will do this, but until then some may be stupid enough to do it. I knew a couple of guys who at fourteen would just ask out any girl they saw for the Hell of it, regardless of whether they liked her, just to see if the girl would say yes to them. Also there are people who may be just playing with your self-esteem, which is also a young person's thing.
The only reassurance I can give is that if they're not serious it will become apparent very soon after you start appearing to take them seriously. Don't devote yourself until you get past this step, at the very least.
Simple response: Go out where? Will I need a coat?
At that age, taking things too seriously would be more of a concern for me.
M.
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There were some times when girls did this to me, asked me out as a joke to see if I'd fall for it. One time, this girl who already had a date for a big school formal dance asked me to go with her. Fortunately, I heard the guy she was going with bragging about how he was going with her to some of his friends and overheard her telling some of her friends the same thing. I at first faked interest in it by not answering either way, and she told me to meet her there, but I didn't and someone else who went confirmed that she and this other guy did go together. She was basically trying to humiliate me in front of alot of students, but it didn't happen.
The second time it happened this girl, who had been making fun of me, asked me to of all things, go roller skating with her. I already knew she had a boyfriend, so that told me right there it could be fake, plus the way she did it. She practically made a production number out of it, grabbing both of my hands, looking into my eyes, and more importantly, doing it at a time when there were alot of people around to see her do it. I told her to leave me alone and that I wanted nothing to do with her and she got all mad at me. She was trying to pull the same thing, ask me in front of everyone and have me show up somewhere she wouldn't be and everyone would get a big laugh.
There was also the time a cheerleader tried to get me to go to a dance with her. Considering the reputation I had around my school, no cheerleader would want anything to do with me and even when I made it clear to her in no uncertain terms I didn't want to go, she kept asking me. I think someone dared her to do it since she wasn't the kind who would pick on anyone.
There was also the volleyball player who did once ask me if I was going to a certain school dance and when I told her no she responded "I guess I won't get to dance with you." She had once said that I was a nice person except when I was arguing with the other students, which was most of the time. I think she was just playing games with me too, like everyone else in that horrible school.
It's stuff like this that actually makes me glad my parents didn't believe in school dances or teenage dating.
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I almost wrote that 13 year old boys will do stupid things..
but, still this bothers me. Its so mean and it can be so
gutwrenching and make someone feel so bad
I`m tempted to say that those that behave like
this should be nipped in the bud and stopped,
they have to stop sooner or later so its just a
question of how many they`re gonna make feel
like s**t just to have a laugh until that happens
So i hope those this happens to set their foot down
and make it clear that they will not take it again.
Its just so mean ![]()
