me_irl

Yeah it's pretty normal bachelor stuff.

Women are obsessed with their own and each other's safety in a way that men just aren't. I mean, the girl I was dating when I was 25, her mother still forbade her from driving on certain sections of busy highways. I had full run of the US highway system at 17.

Women will get pretty close with their roommates, exchange contact info, and will tell each other detailed plans on where they're going, memorize what they're wearing, fill out missing persons forms in advance, etc. When I went back to college in my late 20's, I got a room with three other guys, and if you asked me the day I moved out what their names were I think I would have struggled to tell you. They didn't involve me in their lives and I didn't them.

The times I stayed overnight with a girl? Weekends visiting my parents? That time I wandered off into the Uwharries for three days? They probably didn't notice I was gone. I passed one of my roommates in the hall one day and he mentioned he had just gotten back from Nigeria. I didn't notice he had left the country for two weeks.