We all have them for basically everything. When I bought my phone last year, I went into the store knowing exactly what I needed and I wasn’t going to settle for anything less. When I order my steak well done and that bitch comes out bloody as hell, I’m not eating it. And no matter how cute those shoes that are on sale are, I’m not going to try to make them fit if they’re two sizes too small.
Turning your back on things that don’t meet your standards is pretty easy. People, however, are different.
Relationships with people are a much bigger investment, but it’s harder not to stick to your standards.
Mine are basic: Employed, has a car, a sense of humor, no major self-esteem issues (this shit leads to jealousy and other craziness), is attractive, and is ambitious.
Let’s say that I meet a girl that is everything I want: Smart, sexy, funny, and likes a lot of the same stuff I like. But, she doesn’t have a mode of transportation.
Uhm.
That’s one of my “requirements”. I hope that doesn’t make me sound superficial, because that’s not it at all. I just don’t want to become a chauffeur, and that’s exactly what will happen. I’ll have to pick her up all the time and take her where she needs to go. It’ll lead to her asking to borrow my car. She might be able to find her way around without me, but I’ll feel like the asshole who lets her girl bus it everywhere. And then I’ll resent her for it.
But if everything else works out sooo well except for that one thing, what do you do? Do you not pursue the girl because she doesn’t have a car? If we were talking about a pair of shoes instead of a girl, I’d quickly say, “Well that sucks, but it’s not what I really want” and be over it.
All of us have our own standards when it comes to potential mates, but we don’t always follow them. We try to make things work anyways, like pounding a square peg in a round hole.
Where the fuck are all the round pegs?
**Edit**
One other requirement is that she must want to do “it” to 90′s r&b. If Ginuwine’s “So Anxious” doesn’t get your panties wet, I don’t know what’s wrong with you.
**/Edit**
