8/2/2019 56. 14 Nov 2011 It's a Girls Life

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Monday, November 14, 2011  TyroneHerald 19

A girl’s eye view of living(and partying) in Tyrone WITH

GEMMA MCCALLANit’s a girl’s life 

• I like you, I like you not • I like you, I like you not • I like you, I like you not

 E v e r y b o d y ’ s  t a l k  i n g  a b o u t

...

There are many people (in-

cluding me in the past) whohave longed to be picked upand taken out to be treated

like a princess. Sometimes thoughwhen a girl gets her longed for date,she is sorely disappointed. Not be-cause she has been treated badly,but because it has been the worstdate ever. When I decided to writeabout this I asked loads of people fortheir personal experiences and be-lieve me there were plenty to choosefrom.

I’ll tell you one about a friend of mine. She had met and swappednumbers with a boy, been textinghim for a few weeks and they finallydecided to go out for a bite to eat andmaybe get a DVD. He landed at thehouse (late) and then they left for aChinese. They returned 30 minuteslater as he simply got up when he

was finished regardless that myfriend was still munching on herchicken chow mien.

Home they went with a DVD (inhis words anything she had at thehouse ‘would do rightly’) and settleddown to watch it - him on a differentsofa with his arms folded and a

slightly strange expression on his

face, kind of a cross between beingdeep in thought and in a seriouslybad mood.

Willing him just to leave as soonas the film was over as they hadbarely spoken two words to each oth-er, you can imagine how dismayedmy friend was when his car wouldn’tstart. At the dead of night on a Satur-day who does she call? No option buther uncle who is a mechanic. She fi-nally got rid of her date two hourslater and then two minutes later re-ceived a message from him tellingher, ‘sorry, but things didn’t workout’. I think most of Omagh and be-yond heard the words “that prat hasthe bloody cheek to dump me?!”

Moving on to one of my worstdates, I was asked out, accepted andhalf an hour before I was due to bepicked up I got a message saying his

car had a flat wheel and could I dri-ve. OK, fair enough I drove. Then wewent for a bite to eat and once wewere finished he told me that he ‘hadno change’ so I ended up bloody pay-ing. Not that I mind paying my waybut you don’t invite a girl out for ameal and then tell her you’ve no

money. When he then suggested go-

ing for drinks even though he had‘no change’ I was glad I drove as aswiftly left him home.

It’s not just the men that are dis-appointing at dates sometimes,speaking to a male friend banishedall those ideas. He told me of a firstdate where the girl organised a mealat her house. What she didn’t tellhim was that the said meal was actu-ally a picnic and that she had invitedhalf of Noah’s Ark when all her ani-mals started appearing trying toedge in on their ‘meal’.

He said there were horses, hensand two pigs who she affectionatelycalled Ben and Jerry. As you canimagine he made a swift exit andnever contacted her again.

Other common stories include thegirl getting really drunk or else herdate getting really drunk. Another

common one was meeting a boy on anight out and when meeting him fora date another night, quickly realis-ing that he didn’t look as good as hedid the night that the beer goggleswere on.

And one friend recalls how herdate was not quite as tall as she re-

membered – in fact he was about a

foot shorter. This of course alsoworks if they are not as attractive asyou once thought – i.e. rememberingan Olly Murs look-a-like and meetingan Ed Sheerin look-a-like instead.

I think there will always be a caseof dodgy first dates and although itmay be awful and awkward at thetime they are most definitely some-thing you can look back at and laugh(once you get yourself out of the situ-ation). And you never know the per-son you had the awful date withcould turn out to be the love of yourlife and you’re armed with stories forthe grandkids (especially if the baddate wasn’t your fault).

The horror of the first date

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– ‘Holidays are coming’…yesthey are!

THE FILM ‘IN TIME’

– With Justin Timberlake andCillian Murphy you will not bedisappointed.

JUSTIN BIEBER

– He just gets on my nerves.Simple as that.

THE MASCULINE LOOK

– Clearly I like it on a man butI don’t like it on a woman.

THE RISK ARE GONE

– Totally devastated and be-mused as to how The Risk werevoted out.

Thank God that Frankieboy has finally gotkicked out of X-factor forbreaking ‘a golden rule’.

He made a swift exit from the

show when news broke about thewannabe bad boy bragging abouthis drug taking to show produc-ers. Is he that thick that hethought bragging about it wouldnot get back to the producers?

It’s safe to say that Frankiewill not be missed - by the major-ity of people anyway. We can eas-ily do without seeing his skinny jeans and vest combo along withhis very mediocre voice.

The only downside is poorGary, but I’m sure that part of him is relieved he won’t have toput up with Frankie’s waywardactivities anymore. And this isunlikely to be the last we’ll see of him, there will be plenty of pic-tures of him falling out of night-clubs, his arm draped aroundgirl(s) with a drink and cigarette

in the other hand.Oh and obviously his hair will

still be almost bigger than him. Idread to think what could poten-tially be living in there.

BOOTY BEAT OF THE WEEK

Maroon 5 and GymClass Heroes – StereoHearts is a fine littletune for making your

head bop

Breakingthe goldenrule

Maroon 5’s Adam Levine impresseswith the Gym Class Heroes

Gemma likes... Gemma dislikes...

Drew Barrymore and Adam Sandler inthe movie ‘50 First Dates’. One firstdate can be bad, but imagine if youhad to keep reliving the nightmare...

‘Remembering an

Olly Murs look-a-like and meetingan Ed Sheerinlook-a-likeinstead’

Justin Bieber justgets on my nerves- simple as that!