Prejudice and...well, really just Prejudice

Let me start off this post by saying I am NOT racist.

There, got your attention, didn't I? Anyway, Rex and I have now lived here for two and a half weeks, and we STILL haven't made any friends! I am a social butterfly living like a hermit crab! I LOVE my husband and my pets, but a girl needs friends, ya know? I have resorted to writing about FINCH WARS!! I need something exciting to happen in my life soon, or I am going to lose my loyal readers (aka "groupies," right Sarah? lol).

So I decided the alarmingly mediocre Finch Wars post was the final straw - it is TIME for me to make some friends! I pressured Rex into posting on the facebook group for his new school asking if anyone else from his class lives in our apartment complex. SOMEONE DOES!! As soon as he said that he got a reply, I did a little happy dance around the apartment. Here is a potential FRIEND!!!

So obviously I had to scour this person's facebook for information. This guy's name is "Jermaine," and here's the part where I swear I am not racist, but he is BIG and BLACK and I think he could EAT ME (well, that's what he looks like in his profile pic, anyway). He played football in Texas before coming here, and he looks cool/scary (mostly "cool" because I am highly desperate for friends at this point). Also, being raised in private schools, I just haven't known that many black people. Rex said I'm going to mess up our potential friendship with this guy by calling him "J-dizzle" or something like that, but I WON'T! I tried defending myself to Rex by saying that our neighbor Karl at our old apartment was black, and he was one of our best friends! Rex said that it doesn't count because Karl is a half-black guy who was adopted and raised by two white parents. I still think it should count.

Anyway, so we had this "Jermaine" character expressing interest in us. Well, in Rex. So Rex labored over a facebook message that would "ask him to do something, but not sound desperate or like I'm asking him out." That's actually trickier than you might think when you're writing to a stranger. Pretty much everything ends up sounding creepy.

Apparently Rex's message didn't sound TOO creepy, because Jermaine responded! He said he wanted to meet up! WHOO HOO!!! POTENTIAL FRIEND HAS BEEN SNAGGED! So we decided to go bowling. He said that he and his "lady friend" will meet us at the bowling alley at 8:30 tonight. I'm so nervous! AHHHH!! I said to Rex, "Oh my gosh, what if his lady friend is TRAY-SAY?!" That's when Rex was certain that I am somehow going to mess this night up. If you don't know TRAY-SAY, check out this link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtkU2ch0sRI

I DON'T think all black people are like that, but what if his "lady friend" is? I won't know what to do! But I really want to make a new friend because I haven't had girl talk in FOREVER! I mean, a few days ago I resorted to facebook messaging my brother-in-law's girlfriend. *hangs head in shame* Yes, it has gotten that bad. So I am putting a lot of stock in this bowling adventure tonight. Rex put a note on his class's facebook group that we are going, so maybe MORE people will come and we could make even MORE friends! We could be FRIEND RICH by the end of tonight! But until then, I am prepared to talk to Jermaine's lady friend about the logistics of dyeing one's hair with Kool-aid.

Crap. I am going to get punched for sure. WILL I NEVER HAVE A LAS VEGAS FRIEND?!?!?!