Jerk Alert!

So during a while ago (before my man break) I had given this guy my number because he seemed nice and was cute and was a teacher so I thought why not?  This was as I was trying to get over my ex (not very successfully) so in the end I talked to him a couple of times but told him I was trying to get over someone so it just wasn't a good time. Anyway the other night he calls me and is like "I've decided I would like to see you now".  What???? He's DECIDED he wants to see me????  And I said "What if I don't want to see you?" and he says "You do.  I'm a nice guy".  And I said "How do I know that?  I barely know you?" and he says "Trust me I am" and I skeptically said "I have trusted a lot of guys who have said that".  Well he goes "But I AM a nice guy".  So I tell him "I'm on a man break because I've trusted too many NICE guys".  And he tried to convince me that I was making a mistake and that I was going to miss something great when I was "taking a break" and that life didn't work that way because things don't come at the time you want them to. Also that woman always say they can't meet a nice guy and then when they do they "shun" them. Oh and he also insinuated that I was a small town girl and not all that smart and couldn't turn down an opporunity like him!  This made it easy to stick to my guns and in parting he said "You better mark this day on your calendar as the day you turned down the best thing that might have happened to you."  I'm laughing even as I write this.  What a jerk!!!!!  So full of himself. But here's the kicker siix months ago I would have FALLEN for that.  I would have second guessed myself.  I would have thought "maybe I AM passing up a golden opportunity".  He would in most likelihood have guilted me into dating him and I probably would have and I don't even LIKE this guy!  I found him obnoxous and conceited and arrogant.  But I would have thought I couldn't do better.  But guess what?  Things are like crystal clear for me now.  This guy is a jerk! And even if I wasn't on a man break I wouldn't have gone out with him because I can see through the fog now.  I am ACTUALLY learning something here.  I am making PROGRESS. Yeah me!!!!!