DragonflyBlade21: A woman has a close male friend. This means that he is prob­a­bly inter­ested in her, which is why he hangs around so much. She sees him strictly as a friend. This always starts out with, you’re a great guy, but I don’t like you in that way. This is roughly the equiv­a­lent for the guy of going to a job inter­view and the com­pany say­ing, You have a great resume, you have all the qual­i­fi­ca­tions we are look­ing for, but we’re not going to hire you. We will, how­ever, use your resume as the basis for com­par­i­son for all other appli­cants. But, we’re going to hire some­body who is far less qual­i­fied and is prob­a­bly an alco­holic. And if he doesn’t work out, we’ll hire some­body else, but still not you. In fact, we will never hire you. But we will call you from time to time to com­plain about the per­son that we hired.

Source: Bash.org