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Note to the college student who was doing his nervous best to pick me up in the bookstore earlier tonight: while yes it was sort of amusing that you're so excited that an actual female is perusing the manga section that you attempt to pick her up despite her monosyllabic answers, it is best to be heeding this advice: when you're trying to chat up a girl, please to not be digging your pants out of your ass with your other hand.

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Some balding older man tried to pick me up in the coffee shop this morning (I was studying, I had earplugs in and everything). He tried to start a conversation with me and asked if I was a student at the local university. I said, no, I'm a med student.

Now, I didn't want this old guy to hang around, but as soon as I said that, he was off and out the door quicker than you could say butternut squash.

"I'm a med student" must actually mean "I'm really a man". Or "I bite the heads off of chickens."

Pro-tip for the ladies. If you want them to leave you alone, tell them you're pursuing higher education. And then say butternut squash.

I suspect fixing them with a beady eye and shrieking "Butternut squash!" might work. It would encourage the really weird ones, though.

I very carefully did not show this kid - he had to have been 15 years younger than me - the FULLMETAL ALCHEMIST on my bag, otherwise I'd have to endure him talking about that, as well as his ranting bout the One Piece dub.

When I was going into the post office to buy stamps for my wedding invitations (which I even mentioned to the guy, because it looked at me strange when I said I needed 75 60cent stamps) I was also mailing a package, but realized I didn't have anything to pad the box with. So I said I would just have to come back to do the package later (since I really wasn't in the mood to pay 5 bucks for a thing of bubble wrap), he gave me a role of Priority Mail tape, and tells me to keep it....they've got tons.... Maybe it's just me, but hitting on a girl that's getting stamps for WEDDING invitations and giving the gift of Priority Mailing tape just ain't my idea of romantic...

Then the was the guy when I dialed a wrong number....wow. At least I couldn't see him pulling his pants out of his ass.........

I've been hit on while I was buying a "For My Husband" Valentine card. The guy actually asked if my husband understood me. "As long as I don't speak French," I said, "because he doesn't speak French. And sometimes if I try to talk to him while he's in the shower I have to repeat myself a lot." To credit his persistence if not his intelligence, he kept trying from there.

At an SCA event a decade ao, I witnessed a friend of mine get hit on by a clueless young man who offered to rub her back. She said "No thank you, I'm taken." whereupon he tried to do so anyway. She said "I. Am. Taken." and we left that particular campfire.

I know there's a higher incidence of poly in the SCA and other non-mainstream type organizations than in the general society, but sheesh! When someone says "No thank you, I'm taken," it's a pretty good sign that they're not poly and that they're not looking.

Just so: if you're looking for a non-traditional relationship, traditional sleaze is probably not the way to go.

Also, whether or not you're hitting on someone, if you say, "May I touch you?" and they say no, that should be the end of it. Yikes.

Are you sure he was hitting on you and not just giving you a roll of tape to be nice? People do that.

His mannerisms and such suggested he was hitting on me. Unfortunately, there aren't that many nice people in this area... :)

Hee hee hee. At least he wasn't digging his pants out of his package (which can hurt quite a bit, as it turns out).

Heehee. I'm sure it's one of those catch-22 situations: I'm trying to chat up this girl ... I'm in pain ... I'm trying to chat up this girl ... I'm in pain...

::snicker::

After I said "Hey, see you later" and rushed the hell out of there, once he paused in his monologue ripping dubs to shreds, I heard a disappointed groan, which kinda does my ego a bit of good. XD

I think he was practicing hitting on girls or something. It was like in the middle of his monologue on how 4Kids dumbed down One Piece, he realized "My friends told me I need to encourage ehr to talk!" and stopped, lik in the middle of a sentence, and asked me what my thoughts on the subjectwere. My thoughts are that I don't give a rat's ass, actually. And after we established that I had no opinion, he rattled on again.

I wish him well. One day he'll find him a nice geek!girl to obsess over bad dubs with and they can settle down and have a nice relationship.

And we'll all take a moment of silence for any suffering children of theirs. "No! You can't watch One Piece on FoxBox!" "But Daddy, I can't read fast enough!" "You'll just have to learn Japanese through exposure!"

*chokes on laughter*

*now has good reason to use Stormtrooper icon other than it's funny*

When I finished looking at the manga and said "See you later" and rushed out of there, I heard him give a disappointed groan. XD Sorry to disappoint him, but if I'm going to go for a guy that look like he's 15 years younger than me, there's going to have to be a bit more social and emotional savvy there. Just sayin'. XD

I am reminded of when I went "Fullmetal Alchemist"-DVD-shopping with a pretty girl friend a few weeks ago: the cashier guy trying to chat her up over mutual FMA love stuttered to a horrified stop when we called the series 'cute'. Because violence + blood + angst + shonen = automatic negation of all cute vibes, you see.

And this is sort of on-topic in the general clueless-geekboy-category:

Dear Clueless Geekboy Skulking About the Manga Section in Hastings,
I'm sure you're thrilled that I noticed you because of your enormous and dramatic floor-length black fuzzy felt duster. However, it is June in West Texas and 96 degrees in the shade. You are not impressing anybody. And Morpheus called to say he hates you.
Sincerely,
Kawcrow
P.S. Fuzzy black felt?!

When I went on a cruise to Mexico there was a Goth girl wearing armwarmers. No one needs armwarmers in 80 degree weather, yo.

lol! i'm sorry! that sucks and its nasty, but there is some humour in it!

actualy, during the middle of summer, i was reading a manga at the local book store. and some guy makes a HUGE fuss that i'm reading manga - from the other side of the room. he yell 'Hey! you read manga! and you're a girl!'. so he takes a seat and sits next to me. mind you, i'm reading. and i keep reading, even though he is trying to talk to me. i make some 'hmmm..' sounds. i even tell him that i'm reading my book and theres nothing worse when someone interpts your reading. and he just says, uh huh, and keeps talking about how rare it is to find girls that like manga.
...
i finally got up and left.
for the love of goodness!!! i'm reading! i'm not paying attention! leave me alone!!

Hee. Our local anime/manga/comic/game shop is not quite a Boys Club type, but I invariably get a few awed looks from the guys playing Magic and Yu-Gi-Oh at the side table. Never mind that I'm a regular customer; I'm female, and I have entered Geek Territory, therefore I am a subject of terror/shock/awe.

~~These gunboats I'm totin' are the REAL shock-and-awe weapons.~~

(Thankfully, none have yet tried to hit on me. I think they're all too scared by the concept of a girl who reads manga in the original language. That, or they're stuck to their seats for reasons I'd rather not contemplate.)

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