missroserose | We could be friends!

There's an old saw that's been circulating the Internet for at least a decade now, apparently written by someone who was having a pity party about relationships. I unfortunately don't have the Google-fu to find a version of it to link to, but it basically went something like "Asking a girl out is like interviewing for a job, and having them tell you 'I'm sorry, we decided to hire someone with half your qualifications who's probably a drunk and is going to slack off and treat us badly, but we want to keep you around as 'just a friend' so we can call you at midnight and cry to you about how awful this dude is, and maybe talk about how we should really hire you but never actually do it,'" etc. etc.

I think today's xkcd is a very nice rejoinder from the other side of that dynamic: