speaking up to me. When you're happy that a person flakes, it means part of you didn't really want to go lol.

>
>This is the time when a woman needs to put her big girl pants
>on and go out by herself.
>

or hit up a friend outside of work? run some errands? go shopping/window-shopping? deep-condition her hair lol? enjoy the house to herself?

And let's not forget she could have always gone home and texted/called her man, too.

But I definitely got the sense there that she was open to hanging just to salvage the feeling of having plans/fun lined up, not for the rush of some secret tryst with homeboy.