Fifty-nine

Yes or no.  I understand the need to be polite, but compliments confuse delusional (optimistic?) people like me.  I've had a crush on Fifty-nine for a while and decided I needed to take action.  I texted him, "Idea!  If you are single and interested, let's you and I go on a date!  If you aren't single or interested let's continue having fun conversations.  Thoughts?"  Fifty-nine replied a few hours later, "I'm flattered Penelope and love ideas, so happy you asked.  I'm in the second category which is a really good one for me since you are about as cool as they come."  A normal-minded person would read this text and think, "Rejected."  However, I initially read it as, "Flattered!  Love ideas!  Happy!  Cool as they come!"  After review I thought, "Second category?"  Let me break the possible categories down for you: single (1), interested (2), not single (3) not interested (4); OR single and interested (1), not single and not interested (2).  What was my next step, you ask?  First I read his response seventeen more times, and then replied, "Just to be clear, was that a yes or no to the date?"  It was a no.

Two days later who did I run into at a lodge up in Tahoe?  Fifty-nine, of course; seriously, my life entertains me endlessly.  While walking through the lodge, I saw a guy I knew and went up to say hi; then reaching towards me from behind that guy was Fifty-nine.  He introduced me to his friends that were there, and then commented that he didn't know I came up to Tahoe.  I told him I just happened to be there with some friends for the weekend (sadly none of my friends were around at that moment to validate that they actually existed), and then I promptly excused myself to find said friends before the following thoughts that were bubbling up in my brain escaped my lips (because we all know how I tend to make things awkward when I speak): "I just wanted to confirm face-to-face that you said no because tone and facial expressions are really important, don't you think?" or "Yeah, I don't typically come up here, this must be a sign, right?"  For once in my life I stopped when I was ahead.  Okay, I wasn't really ahead, but at least I stopped before I got even further behind.