In 2001 I started dating someone literally a week after his breakup with his long-term girlfriend (you know how it goes: we were friends, and I was consoling him, and he said "hey, you wanna go out for a drink?" and not knowing whether he was asking me out or just making a friendly gesture I said yes).
Big mistake. I wouldn't do that again. There was just too much bad feeling in the air -- our relationship constantly had this big doom cloud over it, and its name was The Ex-Girlfriend.
― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 10 February 2003 21:28 (twenty-two years ago)