Strange Female Observation

[James Boston]

OK. I'm not the biggest fan of girl-related posts, but I don't think this one has been done.

Have you ever been in a situation where a girl is sending pretty obvious signals that she's not interested in you, but won't come right out and say it, and keeps contacting you? This has happened to me more than once, and it perplexes me.

Example from several years ago: I go out with this girl I met at a party. We went to dinner, didn't really hit it off, no big deal. I still thought I'd see the date through to completion, so I offered to take her to a movie. She gives me some crap about having out-of-town company coming in a couple hours, which is a load of crap because no one schedules a date when they've got company coming. Then, she insists I come to her place the next night and we would rent a movie. Fine. She reiterates this no less than 6 more times through the course of dinner and me taking her home. The next night, she won't answer her phone. I didn't really dig this chick, so it was no big deal. But, what's the point?

If a chick isn't interested, and doesn't want to come right out and say it, no big deal. I can get the picture. Just don't waste my time with some contrived effort at seeming more interested than you are. I won't get my feelings hurt.

Has anyone noticed, and/or had any experience with this that could offer some sort of reasoning behind it.