The Fizzle, The Spark, The Connection….

Cute guy, moderately expensive dinner, awesome conversation….a week goes by…. nothing.  Just a serendipitous meeting of two people, of whom, neither is actually convinced of genuine chemistry.  I mean, at the end of the night could you see yourself crawling up his pant legs, unfastening his Levi’s and feasting on his body?  That’s really the golden apple question.  If not, the fizzle is surely upon the horizon.

The fizzle: a mutual disinterest in the exertion of further efforts to facilitate the second date, an unwillingness to move forward in the dating game. The fizzle is interesting because its unspoken mutuality is almost always felt on both parts, OBVIOUSLY, otherwise it would move forward.  You see, even if only one person is unsure, the other person will, at the very least, lend themselves to another experience (if only just to validate their assumptions or play out their intentions).   But, it just so happens that the fizzle can only occur when both people are disinterested. Of course, this is all in good fun which is why the fizzle is strangely unoffensive.

It’s as if the universe swallows a person whole, to the point whereby the sight of their number draws a blank hole in your phone with absolutely zero emotional attachment.  What’s awkward is when one of you accidentally calls the other, like “damn I meant to call James not Jason.”  Then Jason calls back and says “Did someone call Jason?” And in your mind you’re like “no retard I meant to call James,” then he’s like, “well who is this?” Of course the logical thing to do at this point is create some fake name and hang up as quickly as possible.  But, you aren’t quite sure if he asked because he genuinely doesn’t’ know who you are or simply because he’s systematically humiliating you via cell phone to stroke his own ego for two minutes.  Wouldn’t it be easier to say, “It’s me, the girl you went to dinner with 3 months ago and I accidentally called you instead of my friend Jason….that’s all.”  But who actually believes that?  Everyone inevitably reads sooooo much more into it than that.  Sighhh..…exhausted, yes, and, that’s just the fizzle…

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