Single, that's what happens when you go to a wedding, and you sit down to meet and talk with your relatives, and the relative's phone rings, and you hear them say: "Here we are sitting, the godmother and I...", and then, in a low voice: "... well, the godmother she came alone... so that's it, she came alone."
When a girl is single, every now and then she decides to go out on a date and give a nice guy a chance. And then she sits, drinks coffee, and counts to herself how many dates she needs to go on so that her conscience doesn't bite her because she didn't give that really nice boy a chance.
Moms of single girls ask from time to time - who is that friend of yours that you hang out with so nicely, and why you don't have a boyfriend, when he is already your friend, it can be something more. Then the girl tells mom, well, mom doesn't do it that way, but next time mom calls, she asks the same thing.
Single girl friends tell them from time to time: "I can't wait until you find someone to fall in love with, you'll see how things will be different." Or they say something like: "You know, if someone asked me to show them one of my friends who talks if she wants to have a boyfriend, and she's doing everything she can to find one, I'd show you. they screw up because they have the best intentions.
When you're single, married men say, "Do you have a boyfriend?" You don't have any? How is that?", and then they themselves answer: "Yes, there are no normal guys." At first you think it's nice that someone else notices the lack of normal men, and after a few years of experience you think - oh, no, here he is again, why not come up with something more creative when he wants to shoot himself.
(Otherwise, the man who says "there are no normal men" should be avoided like the Corinthian who says "all Corinthians lie".)
When you're single, men feel the ground and say: "So how come you don't have a boyfriend?" Well, you are such a wonderful and gentle person. You have to have someone." Or they tell you how marriage is a complicated thing. You nod sympathetically and think to yourself - go explain to your wife how complicated your marriage is.
When you're single, it becomes the most important part of your identity. No one ever asked anyone: "Why did you get married", but that's why everyone asks a single girl: "Are you married?" and "Why are you not getting married", possibly: "Are you planning to get married" and "What are you waiting for, what aren't you getting married?" It doesn't matter that you have a hundred and one interesting topics to talk about - the interlocutors somehow always want to know - whether you got married, and why you didn't.
It seems strange to you, and then you hear your mother's voice in your head commenting while watching Sex and the City: “Listen, daughter, it's nice what they show here, but we don't live in New York. A woman should get married here."
Single, it's when your long-ago ex-boyfriend, and recent friend, writes that he can't see you anymore, because now he has a wife and a child to take care of. Or when an ex-boyfriend untags himself from shared photos on Facebook because he has a new girlfriend. Or when your friends behave one way when you hang out alone, and another when their girlfriends are around. And it's all okay, you understand everything, but your opinion about them still gets a little spoiled. Little ones. Okay, a little more.
Among the funniest moments, the single girl counts the one when she got drunk at a party and told her ex-boyfriend how, since they broke up, she had no luck in love, although that is not exactly true. And when she sat with her friend at home on Saturday evening, in her underpants, while they alternately squealed and read aloud Fifty Shades of grey, while at the same time "Military Academy" was on television. And when she changed the rubber in the shower, while the water splashed all over the bathroom. And when she was moving, she carried things to the fifth floor by herself. And when things happened that were not really for the newspaper.
Single, it's a state where you listen to couples talking and you're bored. Or when you crack up because you see grandpa and grandma holding hands. Or sometimes you say to someone: "I don't care about your opinion and no one asked you anything" because he convinces you that you should not keep the cat, but the husband. Single, it's a state like any other.
