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Nothing More than Coffee

Met a friend for coffee this afternoon. He sent me text saying he was sleepy and bored. I had nothing better to do either, so we met up at a nearby Starbucks.

We didn't get to really talk much about anything serious. Just the latest movies and DVDs that we've watched. It was all really superficial conversation. I guess neither of us were in the mood to talk seriously about anything.

When I told another friend about that "coffee break," she referred to it as a date. She explains it this way -- he invited, you accepted, and he paid for coffee. Technically that's a date.

The thing is, it didn't feel like a date. I tried for a while to pinpoint why I didn't see it that way, but I couldn't refute her logic. I guess I felt that it was just one of those times when you're bored with nothing better to do and you decide to hang out with someone for a while.

Sure, it means that you like someone's company enough that you would choose to spend time with him or her, but isn't that also what friendship is?

Anyway, my friend still kept on insisting that it was date, so I told her that if he invites me again for coffee three weeks in a row, then maybe we'd have something to talk about.

For now, I think it's better to assume that it was nothing more than coffee.

Tags: Personal, Relationships

Posted by CF at 6:45 PM