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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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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... :)

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