A Puzzling Response

So, while writing the previous blog post How to be a Socially Awkward Dweeb Around the Opposite Sex, I remembered a time where I was honestly confused about what a female's genuine emotions were and, quite frankly, what the hell had just happened.

It was Junior year of high school and I was in band.  Band was first period and I played the Baritone Saxophone.  Because of this, I got to sit next to the Tenor Saxophone player who was a very pretty blonde girl.  We would occasionally converse about whatever on the account that we sat next to each other.  Much of this included making jokes and messing around.

One day at the end of the school year, the band director was talking about some kind of music performance that the kids in the top audition band would be performing at.  He said that we should all go because it was the equivalent of prom.  In fact, he was calling it "Prom 2."  He said we should bring dates and dress up and that there would be dancing and stuff.  Of course, he's kidding about all of this (I think).  Amongst all of the silliness coming out of the band director's mouth, the blonde Tenor Saxophone player asks me if I would go to "Prom 2" with her.  Naturally (or very obliviously I'm not sure), I respond with, "Pfft!  No!  hahahahaha!"  She seemed so astonished at how blunt and obnoxious my response was that she wouldn't talk to me the rest of the class.  Whenever I tried to talk to her she would put her hand up and say, "Nope, don't even talk to me."

The thing is, here's the kicker.  I still, to this day, have no idea if she was joking or not.  I don't know if she was actually asking me out and I don't know if she was honestly offended by my response.    I think that it's more unlikely that she was asking me out than she was offended.  However, I think that there's a significant chance that she was just joking.  I just really couldn't tell at all.

But anyhow, as you can see from my previous post, I'm not always the greatest at traversing these casual social situations.  In fact, it was brought to my attention, by my dear friends, that calling a female "man" is not really a big deal at all!

This sequence of events still baffles me so I would like to hear what you have to say about it.  Throw your thoughts down in the comments.  Was she upset?  Let us know what you think!