One of my plates dropped out of rotation recently, so I've been dating around to find a replacement. This conversation begins with a random I went out with once cancelling our second date in the delusion that I'd still give her the time of day. Takeaways are fairly simple:

Ambiguity is always an invitation to ambiguously dig deeper. Plausible deniability is the norm, but only let it slide when it's favorable. A woman's gambit is to either try to use you (BB) or fuck you (AF). Know which one you are, and if you're not the AF in any particular equation, remove yourself from it entirely.

Edit: That's some rough feedback there, sires. Guess I got learnin' to do