# I pit myself for being envious **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [September 10, 2005, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-myself-for-being-envious/320934 "2005-09-10T03:06:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![BluePitbull](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e9bcb4/32.png) [@BluePitbull](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BluePitbull)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2005, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-myself-for-being-envious/320934/1 "2005-09-10T03:06:34Z")
Why do I feel a bit jealous? Or Envy. I don’t know what I feel. Girl I like does not feel the same way about me. I wish I could be the one who she ask to go out to do stuff. But I do not want to seem desperate or lonely to ask her. I do not hate any one, just feel rejected. I don’t know how I should express myself. Amazingly, I posted some thing coherent after Rum and Coke and 1 Heineken and a few whiskey and cokes. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2005, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-myself-for-being-envious/320934/2 "2005-09-10T03:26:58Z")
> [@BluePitbull](#): > > \Amazingly, I posted some thing coherent after Rum and Coke and 1 Heineken and a few whiskey and cokes. More or less, sure. But you did spell “desperate” and “coherent” right, and that’s better than a lot of people manage stone cold sober. Advice that you probably won’t take - if she doesn’t like you, it wasn’t meant to be, and you’ll be free to meet someone else who _will_ like you, and you’ll wonder what you ever saw in the first girl. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2005, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-myself-for-being-envious/320934/3 "2005-09-10T03:32:11Z")
> [@BluePitbull](#): > > Why do I feel a bit jealous? > Or Envy. I don’t know what I feel. Girl I like does not feel the same way about me. Of the two, your emotion is closer to envy. If she was _already_ your girlfriend and you felt hostility toward anyone else who approached her, you’d be jealous. ---
**Author:** ![Squink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@Squink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squink)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2005, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-myself-for-being-envious/320934/4 "2005-09-10T03:40:43Z")
[Seven Deadly Sins: Frequently Asked Questions](http://www.le.ac.uk/arthistory/seedcorn/faq-sds.html) ---
**Author:** ![Uvula\_Donor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/e19adc/32.png) [@Uvula\_Donor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uvula_Donor)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2005, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-myself-for-being-envious/320934/5 "2005-09-10T03:42:50Z")
Have a couple more rum-and-cokes and call her up _right away_ and pour out your heart to her. Chicks dig long rambling drunken middle-of-the-night phone calls. ---
**Author:** ![OrangeJumpsuit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/45deac/32.png) [@OrangeJumpsuit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OrangeJumpsuit)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2005, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-myself-for-being-envious/320934/6 "2005-09-10T03:45:22Z")
> [@BluePitbull](#): > > Amazingly, I posted some thing coherent after Rum and Coke and 1 Heineken and a few whiskey and cokes. Lightweight. I’m fixin’ ta one (or five or twelve) up you in about an hour. Oh, wait, yes… the thread at hand here. Not a big dea if you ask me. Everyone feels jealous of someone else at least once, even if only a little. Everyone except me, of course. But that’s because I rule. ---
**Author:** ![magellan01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@magellan01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/magellan01)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2005, 7:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-myself-for-being-envious/320934/7 "2005-09-11T07:03:41Z")
YOU’RE UPSET OVER THAT SLUT?!!! You’re much to good for her. I mean she was okay at the bachelor party and all, and boy, did she clean up in tips! But I gotta say, she earned dollar. Heads up BluePitBull, there’s a good-looking heifer heading your way. Time to spiff up and polish those horns. ---
**Author:** ![ParentalAdvisory](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/53a042/32.png) [@ParentalAdvisory](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ParentalAdvisory)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2005, 8:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-myself-for-being-envious/320934/8 "2005-09-11T08:01:56Z")
> [@magellan01](#): > > Heads up BluePitBull, there’s a good-looking heifer heading your way. Time to spiff up and polish those horns. I was about to say, “WTF?”, until I re-read the OPs username. ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2005, 1:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-myself-for-being-envious/320934/9 "2005-09-11T13:07:05Z")
Wait a minute… Did you ask her out and she rejected you? Or is she just out with someone else and you never asked? Or is it one of those you’re too shy to ask her and so you sit around acting hurt because she doesn’t notice? Just wanting clarification. Besides, man, I heard from Steve, who used to date Sally, who was her cousin Jill’s roommate in college, that she’s a real psycho bitch who keyed her boyfriend Jack’s car when he went bowling with the guys but she thought he was sleeping around on her and that she’s a pretty cold fish anyways, you know? ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2005, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-myself-for-being-envious/320934/10 "2005-09-11T13:15:52Z")
> [@magellan01](#): > > Time to spiff up and polish those horns. I thought “polishing your horn” was what you do when there **aren’t** any girls around. ---
**Author:** ![Neurotik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/91b2a8/32.png) [@Neurotik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Neurotik)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2005, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-myself-for-being-envious/320934/11 "2005-09-11T14:30:51Z")
> [@Kimstu](#): > > I thought “polishing your horn” was what you do when there **aren’t** any girls around. No, no. You have to do it **before** the date so you’re not anxious. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2005, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-myself-for-being-envious/320934/12 "2005-09-11T14:34:14Z")
> [@Uvula Donor](#): > > Have a couple more rum-and-cokes and call her up _right away_ and pour out your heart to her. Chicks dig long rambling drunken middle-of-the-night phone calls. Alcohol, the cause of and solution to all life’s problems. ---
**Author:** ![BluePitbull](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e9bcb4/32.png) [@BluePitbull](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BluePitbull)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2005, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-myself-for-being-envious/320934/13 "2005-09-11T15:02:39Z")
> [@NoClueBoy](#): > > Or is it one of those you’re too shy to ask her and so you sit around acting hurt because she doesn’t notice? Yeah, thats me, I should really get over my shyness, ---
**Author:** ![BluePitbull](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e9bcb4/32.png) [@BluePitbull](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BluePitbull)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2005, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-myself-for-being-envious/320934/14 "2005-09-11T15:04:14Z")
> [@featherlou](#): > > More or less, sure. But you did spell “desperate” and “coherent” right, and that’s better than a lot of people manage stone cold sober. > > Advice that you probably won’t take - if she doesn’t like you, it wasn’t meant to be, and you’ll be free to meet someone else who _will_ like you, and you’ll wonder what you ever saw in the first girl. I will take that advice, thank you ---
**Author:** ![BluePitbull](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e9bcb4/32.png) [@BluePitbull](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BluePitbull)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2005, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-myself-for-being-envious/320934/15 "2005-09-11T15:05:37Z")
> [@Squink](#): > > [Seven Deadly Sins: Frequently Asked Questions](http://www.le.ac.uk/arthistory/seedcorn/faq-sds.html) I guess I am guilty of Envy and Lust ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2005, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-myself-for-being-envious/320934/16 "2005-09-11T17:05:02Z")
> [@BluePitbull](#): > > I will take that advice, thank you Good for you. I wouldn’t steer you wrong. Ha! I slay me! ---
**Author:** ![Lazlo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lazlo/32/9678_2.png) [@Lazlo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lazlo)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2005, 6:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-myself-for-being-envious/320934/17 "2005-09-12T06:38:33Z")
I almost hate to do this… But isn’t a Pitbull a dog? ---
**Author:** ![DiosaBellissima](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a8b319/32.png) [@DiosaBellissima](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DiosaBellissima)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2005, 6:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-myself-for-being-envious/320934/18 "2005-09-12T06:45:14Z")
> [@Lazlo](#): > > I almost hate to do this… > > But isn’t a Pitbull a dog? Why did you have to ruin our fun? ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Lazlo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lazlo/32/9678_2.png) [@Lazlo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lazlo)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2005, 7:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-myself-for-being-envious/320934/19 "2005-09-12T07:32:37Z")
Oops. Sorry. _looks for Delete Post button_ 😃 ---
**Author:** ![sunfish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/96bed5/32.png) [@sunfish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sunfish)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2005, 10:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-myself-for-being-envious/320934/20 "2005-09-12T10:56:37Z")
> [@Neurotik](#): > > > [@Kimstu](#): > > > > I thought “polishing your horn” was what you do when there aren’t any girls around. > > No, no. You have to do it **before** the date so you’re not anxious. I always thought that was more of a joke than anything. No?