Brad's Last Stand

While the last time I posted about Brad was about a year ago, he has recently been on my mind. After he and stopped speaking consistently, he still would send me emails from time to time about how busy he was. Not once did Brad ever attempt to make plans with me so I would just shoot him a short reply and promptly forget about it. After nearly a year of this happening every 4 months or so Brad actually started to call me again. He made an effort to take me to a play with him in December when he was given an extra free ticket. Unfortunately Brad wanted me to take the train down to theater in time for the start of the show at 9pm, and then escort myself back home on the north side of the city after the show ended at 11pm. Considering that the cold weather combined with the late hour would guarantee me a long and cold commute home I respectfully declined the invitation. Personally, I don't think that the appropriate way to reconnect with someone you dated is to make them do all the work themselves. If Brad wanted me to go to the show he should have at least offered to drive me home, and perhaps even gotten coffee with me before or after the show. Shortly after the invitation was offered (and declined) he attempted to start discussing future plans with me. Via email I explained to him that I had been fed up with the constant emails about how busy he was, and that if he couldn't find a moment to meet up with me in an entire year I was not willing to see how long it would take for him to get his act together. I told him that he should just stop trying, if trying was ever really involved. To his credit, though, he replied: I am sorry that was the impression I gave you. It seems that what was tried, primarily, was your patience. I laughed so hard reading that! I guess the man knows how to make an exit.