Reid and the terrible, horrible, no good, very bad week

I never thought I'd be so glad to see a Monday and the start of a new work week.

Let's just skip the details and get to an opinion that I've held for a long time and was reminded to share: when will we, as a people, get rid of the idea that breakups need to be done face-to-face? Can we just get together and agree that when someone gets dumped, they're going to be mad at the person dumping them no matter what, so isn't it just better to do it when you're thinking about it, rather than having the person drag themselves out somewhere hoping for a nice little date only to get the love axe? It's insult to injury, I tells ya. Email, text message, phone call, whatever. Lets just get it over with and carry on with our lives.

The worst was last year when I was seeing a woman (not very seriously, but I still liked her), and we didn't see each other for a few weeks (it happens). Then she started trying to get together with me, but only for coffee or lunch, never: "What are you doing this weekend?" So I figured it was coming, but I wished that she would just get right down to it. So finally got to lunch after about two weeks of scheduling attempts, she never said anything about wanting to end things, was very affectionate and I figured I was back in. I was all excited that afternoon and evening, thinking that things were starting up again, and really glad to get a call from her that night. We talked for an HOUR before she finally gave me the, "There's something I need to tell you..." I know she was thinking that she was being polite and considerate and doing the right thing by trying to tell me upfront, but it sure as hell would have made my life about 20 times easier if she'd just cut to the chase and sent it in an email. Would I have been annoyed? Of course. But no more annoyed than what happened, and it would have all been over about two weeks earlier.

I read something recently that said that something like 1 in 5 people in England have admitted to breaking up with someone over a text message. Now THAT's progress.