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[telophase]

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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[mrissa.livejournal.com]

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.

[telophase.livejournal.com]

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.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

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.