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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.

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.........

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).

::snicker::

*chokes on laughter*

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

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?!

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.
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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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