Women + friendship = confusion

Yep, Willard is realizing that being friendly with girls leads to confusion sometimes. It’s not that he flirts with them, but he just likes who they are and being around them, and he enjoys showing it. He does it in a careful way, of course: when he wants to spend time with one girl, he asks her on a date, and that’s different.

Well, he’s realizing that girls take friendliness for interest most times, even when he’s being friendly with several girls in an apartment all together. He doesn’t initiate these friendships really – usually they invite him to do things, but Willard thinks maybe he can’t treat girls like he does guys. Maybe he can’t be friends with girls the same way.

This is even a problem when he talks to his girl-friends about the girls he’s dating! Willard didn’t realize this, but they think that him opening up to them is a sign that he’s interested in them! He thought it was a way of being friends – talking about other relationships!

Maybe girls don’t realize that if Willard likes them, he will pursue them directly. Maybe this is a symptom of their thinking people don’t date much, but Willard thought that, where they know he asks other girls out, they’d surmise that he dates the girls he’s romantically interested in.

It’s not happening on several fronts, and Willard realized in the last week or so that he’s sending the wrong signals by being friendly with girls – either in the way he’s doing it or by doing it at all. Those poor girls. Don’t they know what a nerd Willard is?

They probably do now.