Silly friend's love life proves age-old truth

There is a fantastic song by Airhead called 'Funny How' which has the lyrics:

"Funny how the girls you fall in love with never fancy you, funny how the ones you don't do"

This observation, nay, truism, has been shown to be correct in thousands of scientific tests across the world, and holds just as true for boys as for girls. I believe it is related to the "Law of What He's Got", otherwise known as "Everybody Acts Like a Toddler", and is related to the extreme rise in desirability of anything which you thought you had, and now don't. OK, in psychology it is actually called the Scarcity principle, but I like my names better.

Anyway, the most recent update in the silly friend's love life (read all about it here, here and here) is a perfect example of this. She met, through a common friend (not a mutual friend: see here for pedantic explanation) another guy whom she had liked for a while, but who was only recently single. They spent some good times together over a series of weekend, flirting like crazy and generally irritating grouches like me who are not keen on PDAs (both the electronic devices and the public groping, as it happens).

The result of this situation was that for a week or two my friend was walking around with her head in the clouds about New Guy, and therefore not responding with as much enthusiasm as usual to the sporadic communications from the other guy (MLS or manipulative little shit, as he shall now be known). MLS has reacted by upping the frequency and intensity of his chat, and even telephoning her directly, twice, to ask her out for dinner. I find it hard to believe that his increased amorousness is anything other than the realization that his favorite fallback ego-stroker was drifting away, but she (and several of her other silly friends that she has enlisted in the attempt to make me believe that he really is The One) sees in this turn of events important signals that there is real potential here. This is mainly because the situation with New Guy didn't work out, so she is now in need of someone else to daydream about while not doing any work.

I am certain that MLS will undoubtedly shy away again in response to her newfound interest in him, canceling a few dates at the last minute and starting to drop the names of other girls into conversation, unless she can somehow keep up the pretense of not really caring and having numerous better offers. Fat chance.

So turns the Wheel of Life.