Freak Magnet Friday! I thought he was gay? Not that there's anything wrong with that...

Back in about 1995 I was finishing up all the classes for my minor in college, which was Social Work, go figure..but anyways, I had about four classes in a row back to back and so there was a small co-hort of us that spent all this time together, three times a week.

Eventually I met a guy named "Edgar" who was about one of three guys in the Social Work department. He was about my height, close to my weight, and very effeminate, in my opinion. We always sat by each other and we would gossip like teenage girls in high school, it was fun! We even wrote notes during class, we really brought out each other's mature side! I had so much fun with Edgar because I was convinced he was gay and so this was a very freeing experience to hang out with a man in this way. I felt like he was my first gay friend and I pictured us hanging out at clubs, gossiping about the other people at the clubs, and all that fun stuff you do with your gay guy friends.
I never came out and asked Edgar if he was gay because, one, it wasn't my place, and two, once when we were walking from one of our classes to the next a bee came flying around us and this is EXACTLY how he reacted:

Edgar: "Oh my God! A bee! (Flailing around, waving the bee away in a frenzy, swatting at the air) Oh my God, go away bee! Go away!"

Yeah, you be the judge on that one.

So one day we are walking from class to class and we're just chatting, when out of the blue he says to me, "Um, this is so hard for me to say, but I don't think I can be friends with you anymore."

Me: "What? Why, what happened?"

Edgar: "Well when you talk to me about you and your boyfriend I can't take it! I want to just beat him up and take you away with me so that I can have you all to myself! I picture all these instances where I save you from some dangerous situation and you are so happy that you just fall in love with me...so you see why it's too painful for me to talk to you anymore?"
Me: (crickets chirping, mouth agape) Hmm, thought he was gay?

Later, after some weeks go by and he has been ignoring me, I figure he would be over whatever that was and be willing to hang out with me again. He tells me, "No, I just can't. It's too painful." Man, really convinced he was gay.

Whatever! He called me about a year later, asked me if I still had a boyfriend, I said yes. He then tells me, "Well it was nice knowing you, I thought it wouldn't bother me to hear this, but is still does." Dude! Are you sure your not gay? Remember the bee incident?

Ok, so now it is years later, and I would bet that he either got out of denial and admitted he was gay, or is married to a woman who is very masculine! Not that there's anything wrong with that! Happy Friday! Thanks for reading!