vince is his name

i took a peter pan bus up to NYC this weekend. it's a pretty cheap and reliable way to travel between DC and NY. a man sat down next to me on the bus (even though there were plenty of empty seats all around), and we didn't talk at all for the first 3.5 hours of the trip. he actually only broke the silence after i made a phone call to my momma. he asked me if i was Korean--he said his momma was too.

we talked for the entire last part of the ride. it was enough time to get to know him enough to say that:

1. he doesn't really love his girlfriend. he likes the idea of her, that she's pretty, that she's low maintenance, and that she lives in NYC.
2. he honestly believes that guys need to treat their girls like sh*t if he wants to keep her (if she's good looking).
3. he thinks that if a girl lives in the DC area and can't get a date, she must be really ugly.
4. he knows that if a girl is looking for a man with a higher education who likes to travel, she only has dollar signs in her eyes.
   
5. he would live in san francisco if he could (though he doesn't really have anything holding him back--see #1).
   
6. he would never date a fat and/or ugly girl.
   

almost our whole conversation was about dating. it was my fault for asking how he met his girlfriend--i was curious, since long distance dating usually has a story behind it. i just didn't realize that the conversation would end with me losing even more faith in men. thankfully, i remained slightly amused at how many times he managed to put his foot in his mouth and not even know that he did.

lovelove,
a-highly-educated-traveler-living-in-the-DC-area-who-is-unable-to-get-a-date