li' bit crazy

The other night Mclovin informed me that I am just a little bit crazy, and prone to drama, I took this to translate into I am high maintenance...and I don't want to be one of those "high maintenance chicks." So tonight I asked Booya, and while he disagreed with Mclovin's assessment (to which I recounted a particular episode of crazy that Mclovin got to witness, just so he would have all the facts) he DID say that I was, perhaps, kinda high maintenance...he specifically mentioned a few "talking of the ledge" episodes of late. Well, that got us talking about different kinds of crazy and drama in general, and all the things that we girls (and guys) do that could be considered, if not full blown crazy, at least a little bit kooky.

Well, the other night JD asked me for some "girlvice" cuz he was convinced his girl might be headin' down drama drive and fast, and if that was the case crazytown wasn't far behind. It occurred to me; what girls perceive as normal behavior in a relationship, guys consider crazy, high maintenance, drama. He COULD NOT understand why a seemingly normal girl would act so crazy over something so little...so I asked him to explain. Seems, she called, and he didn't answer and when he finally did call back, much later, she was kinda freakin' out...wonderin' where he was, what he was doing, and if he was ok, and why he hadn't called sooner.

See, to him, she was not trusting him, jumping to conclusions, overreacting, and just in general actin' all crazy like, but what I tried to tell him was: she was worried. We girls do that. If someone who ALWAYS has his phone on, and always answers, suddenly stops, well that means something is wrong. It goes something like this in our heads:

immediately after call: "Huh, guess he is busy...or maybe in the shower, no problem."

ten minutes later: "Wonder why he hasn't called...that's weird."

twenty minutes later: "Ok, WTF...he should be off the phone, out of the shower or where he can talk by now, why hasn't he called?"

thirty minutes later: "Does he not want to talk to me...he knows I called, what if that's it, what if he looked at his phone, rolled his eyes, and put his phone back in his pocket...did I do something to piss him off?"

forty five minutes later: "Oh God, what if he is with another girl?"

one hour later: "Oh God, what if he has been in an accident and is hurt?"

One hour and one minute later: "Oh God, what if he is dead?! What if he WAS taking a shower and slipped and fell and cracked his head open and..."

Oh, there's the phone...

her: "WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN?!!!!"
him: "What? I was at work...why are you getting all crazy?"

Seriously guys, we go there...and call it crazy or whatever you want to call it, but it isn't ALWAYS cuz we don't trust you, or worse, we are whacked...if we like you, especially if we REALLY, really like you; we worry about you, we worry a lot because we know you do stupid stuff (you ARE a guy) and we want you healthy and happy and in one piece...

...so you can answer your damn phone.