they say that some people would do anything–even look foolishly and utterly stupid (with a capital S)–to get noticed (read:  contestants on local noontime variety shows).  that statement couldn’t be more true with what happened this morning.  i was getting settled in my chair at work, ready to start the day when a text message arrived.  now, remember the HR girl a couple of entries back?  it was her who sent the message.  but before i tell what the message was, let me have everyone up to speed with what happened since our “argument” some weeks ago.  a couple of days after that event, she sent a text message asking how i am.  like, how am i supposed to feel after that?  as if nothing happened?  damn straight i’m through with her.  so i did not reply to her message back then.  a couple of weeks passed, and she sent the same message.  by that time, my thinking of her was already asystole.  so what, don’t care.  so i didn’t reply.  again.

then there was this morning.  just like the two text messages before, just out of the blue, she sent me this message (translated from the vernacular):

“mark, even though you’re mad at me, i’ll call your office landline.  i have urgent information.  thanks.”

now the thing is, i wasn’t at my office at that time.  i was in another site.  so i thought to myself, “i’ll just ignore this like the last two messages she sent me.”  but then i also realized that my office phone might keep ringing off the hook and someone who happens to pass by the area does answer.  i wouldn’t want one of my colleagues answering the phone with a loose person on the other end of the line looking for me.  but then, another realization.  like a bulb lighting on top of my head when an idea comes along, i thought, if something was indeed that urgent that i need to know, shouldn’t she have just called me immediately on my mobile phone instead?!  why send a text message in the first place?  i started to smile in amazement, and on top of that realization, came another one:  maybe she just sent that text message as a test to see if i’ll reply back.  if i do, she wins because she has proven to herself that i could not continue to ignore her.  if i was at my office at that time and she does call even if i didn’t reply back, i would’ve answered the phone and she would’ve communicated with me, therefore, she also wins.

god almighty, how could one be soooo stupid?!   to go that low just to elicit a response from me!  to make up stuff so as to prove that “i’m-so-hot-you-couldn’t-stand-two-months-not-talking-to-me.”  the thought of ignoring her message still was there.  but it also gave me an idea of a reply to her:  “urgent?  i would pay more attention to my chest hairs growing than something ‘urgent’ from you.”

but i’m not that mean.  instead, i just replied that i’m not in the office.  plain and simple.  i know, i should’ve just ignored the message.  but the thought of my co-workers answering a phone call from her gives me the creeps.  so i guess it’s all good.

one last thing i realized:  she’s got beauty, yeah.  but sh*t for brains.