Sunday, January 6, 2008

Update-1.6.08

Dilemma dilemma!
Would you go out with a guy whose married best friend tried to sleep with someone you know? Is the potential date sketchy and not trustworthy by association??

Here's the abbreviated back story:
On a business trip, during a night on the town with 2 colleagues (a guy and a woman) from one of my company's other offices, the guy told me that his best friend from college, Brian, lives in my city and also happens to be single. I indicated that I was open to being set up and he said that he'd make the introduction. Well, several hours and too many cocktails later, my coworker guy walked us (me and the other woman we work with) to our hotel. The next day I learned that he tried to hook up with her! He's married and has a child!! Of course, being the classy and self-respecting woman that she is, she turned him down and it's never been discussed.

Well, coworker guy introduced me and Brian over email just before Christmas. I replied back and suggested to Brian that we meet for dinner or drinks some night after work. He just replied, apologizing for the delayed response (he'd been out of the country on vacation) and suggested getting together this week.

I'd like to meet him but it seems somewhat pointless since I question whether I could ever trust him because of his best friend's nasty behavior.

So... tell me! Comments please! Am I overreacting and being paranoid? Or should I give cheater's best buddy a chance?

Switching gears to Casey - I emailed him back tonight and gave him my number. We'll see when he calls!!

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

1) Re: Casey-- yay! I expect an immediate update when he does call!

2) Re: friend of coworker-- I would give the friend a chance. There's no guarantee that the friend even knows that the married coworker tried to hook up with your female coworker. And if they've been friends since college, & this is a recent development in the male coworker's behaviors, then even if the friend does know about the attempted hook-up, perhaps he values his long friendship & is willing to let one night's bad decision pass. After all, while even *attempting* to hook up with someone when you're married is a bad decision, at least nothing actually *happened* that night.

Anonymous said...

Ditto on the friend of coworker!