Yay. But maybe sigh?

Out of the blue, a message from KfW2. I wasn't expecting to hear from her today as she's got a load of stuff on.

"Hey!"

"Sup?"

"You know our night out?" (I've posted before that it's been far too long since we had just a Ruuude and KfW2 night out - years, in fact.)

"Yup."

"Does it have to be the CB Bar*?"

"Nope. That was just a suggestion, instead of hitting our usual places for a change of scenery. Plus you said you really liked CB Bar"

"Cool. You should come down to my local. We can have our night our there. I've been putting this off cos I don't have much spare money and taxis are expensive, and you know I don't go out much. What about that?"

"Yeah, sounds good. But, you know I've got a spare bed? I wouldn't expect you to get taxis to and from your house? Drive to mine, ditch the car and stay over? Drive home the next day?"

"Woohoo!"

Now, the "woohoo" was at my agreement to go to her local rather than the offer to stay over. I think. I've made the offer to stay over many times - it's an open offer that extends not just to us heading out together. If she's in town, there's a bed going spare instead of spending well over twenty pounds to get home. She knows it's there. She has an issue, I think, with staying at mine because I am single and a bloke. Or rather, she has an issue with people's perception of her, a married woman, staying overnight in the house of a guy who's single.

And it kinda makes me sad. It makes me sad that, once again, I have to go to her. Us socialising was one of the few times I could get her on my turf. It makes me sad that she has an issue with people's perception of her (I understand where she's coming from, I just don't agree with it, though I've been told by quite a few people that my opinions on a lot of societal norms are non-standard). I'm also sad because, as I have posted before, KfW2 goes out a fair bit. Now, a lot of her socialising is not just her and friends sitting in a pub. She doesn't do that an awful lot... but she does socialise.

But, the conversation leads me to think that our night out is going to be sooner rather than later, and that is most definitely, a good thing.

*The bar where I first saw CB in the flesh, where FP and I often meet to catch up. It's not the closest bar to my house, but I'd regard it as my local.