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My sister-in-law. She is rapidly barrelling toward spinsterhood, and is upset by this but is doing absolutely nothing about it--yet she and my mother-in-law literally live in this dream world where at any moment she could be married with children. (The most recent example: my MIL asked for some DVDs for Christmas because the ones she has actually belong to my SIL--who lives with her--and "eventually she'll be moving out to start her family and taking them with her." Talk about denial.) The really frustrating thing is that despite my bitching, she really is a very nice girl. The problem is she can't seem to do anything but wait and wait for the perfect thing to fall right into her lap, and as a result hasn't been on a date in ten years.
SO, when my friend who lives in her city mentioned that he has a single coworker (specifically, a police officer) who is her age, Christian, and also suffers from perpetual "nice guy" syndrome, I thought it was a perfect opportunity to pass his information along. Her response?
"What kind of Christian is he? I would need to know, otherwise why would I waste my time?"
Yes, why indeed. Your time is very precious, clearly you have far too many suitors to be able to actually have a conversation with each one of them and determine for yourself whether you have anything in common. Jesus H. Christ. So now I get to ask my friend precisely what church his coworker goes to, and since I am really nice I am even pretending it is ME asking, and that I haven't even passed the information along yet--because it would be a shame if he decided she was a nitpicky block of ice before ever even meeting her.
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