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  • So a few months ago, I was at a wrap party.

  • Like when you finish filming a project and everyone gets together to celebrate

  • the fact that it's over and it's done and we're all unemployed again.

  • To another existential crisis that we will never be hired again and we'll be realized as the frauds that we secretly believe we are.

  • To another existential crisis that we will never be hired again and we'll be realized as the frauds that we secretly believe we are.

  • *Clink*

  • Anyway, I was at this party

  • and you know how parties go. You get into different conversations with people

  • some you know, some are strangers.

  • Hi. I'm Mikey.

  • Oh hi, Anna. Nice to meet you.

  • Cool. Haha.

  • Five minutes into the conversation, he said

  • Oh cool, my girlfriend and I have a puppy.

  • Shut up!

  • And I felt this immediate and huge sense of relief.

  • And I realized that the entire time we were talking I had been doing this balancing act of trying to be friendly

  • but not too friendly so I wasn't leading him on

  • but also not trying to be a bitch.

  • And when he finally told me that he had a girlfriend I was like ah, I can just be myself now.

  • What? Shut up. Show me.

  • I've got a video.

  • Awwwwww!

  • And I started thinking, you know, some guys probably don't even realize that we have to go through this.

  • Like a couple of weeks ago, this guy approached me in a parking lot.

  • Hey! Hey! Excuse me!

  • Yes?

  • Hey, I was wondering if you wanted to go get coffee.

  • Oh, I'm in a relationship but thank you.

  • Yeah. No problem.

  • That's probably how he remembers it.

  • If he remembers it at all.

  • But do you want to know how I remember it?

  • Hey!

  • Y-yes?

  • Stay calm. Inhale lots of air in case you have to scream.

  • Go for the eyes and balls. Don't forget to bite--the jaw is the strongest muscle you've got.

  • Shit--where's my phone? Maybe I can have my fingers on 911.

  • Let's get coffee.

  • Oh. Oh my God. Thank God.

  • Why did he run at me in an empty parking lot at night?

  • Jesus, that was scary.

  • Uh, I'm in a relationship but thank you.

  • Oh my God, why isn't he saying anything?

  • Why is he just staring at me? Oh my God.

  • Why are you just staring at me? Oh my God!

  • Fine. No problem.

  • Yup. You know, there's a study done awhile ago

  • that sums it up perfectly.

  • Men are most afraid that women will laugh at them.

  • Women are most afraid that men will kill them.

  • So the next time you think that women are a little bit complicated, remember we see the world through very different perspectives.

  • And who knows? Maybe that guy actually thought

  • Hi! Uhm. Be brave Mike.

  • You can do this. You can do this.

  • I was wondering--you can completely say no, it will be totally fine--

  • Uhm. She's just a girl. She's not that scary at all.

  • Do you want to go get coffee sometime?

  • No!!!!!!!!!

  • I'm Anna Akana. Stay awesome Gotham.

  • This is Beetle.

  • Oh my God, he's purring.

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So a few months ago, I was at a wrap party.

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