Midlife Crisis - Incoming!

[roxann_ireland]

For the past two weeks, I have hung out at a coffee shop after an appointment, to have a snack and do some knitting. Both times, I have had men chat me up. Both times I thought to myself, "Why are these old guys flirting with me?" Then I realized that, in all likelihood, they are no more than 5 years older than me

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[varushka]

The knitting must be some kind of magnet...

[roxann_ireland]

Yeah, because it's interruptable, I think. I can talk and still do it, thus the chatting up. And to be fair, if I answered in monosyllables, they'd retreat. The thing is, the conversations are interesting, it's just the dog-at-the-dinner-table stare that puts me off.

Dude, you are not just barking up the wrong tree, your mellow-yet-professional, probably New Age, yoga-teaching ass is barking up about three different wrong trees simultaneously. Now pardon me while I go take some Ritalin and shoot things with my gravity gun.

[bcstillman]

Alternate the snack eating and knitting with deep and methodic booger picking. If this still fails to deflect the old dudes approach, just wipe said booger on their sleeves. Or stick boogerfinger in their face and ask, "Does this look infected? It smells infected."

btw, at my new work is a cat named Bug who got a bunch of shots to be allowed into the country. The shots' side effect left him wobbly. The wobbly cat makes me think of little Tim. If only there was a way they could team up and fight crime. The combined wobble and lickety-lickety would strike fear, no doubt.

[roxann_ireland]

I told my mom this and she thought it was hilarious. She commented that you are so quiet that your sense of humor always takes people by surprise.

Well, actually, she compared you to a silent-but-deadly fart.

I'm totally not making that up.

Re: wobble and lick - I'm sure that the superpower generated would be of the CuteOverload sort.

[_bitterglitter_]

My friend and I were talking about getting flirted with by the non-preferred gender last night. He works at a store on Hawthorne and gets hit on non-stop by both genders. Ben gets hit on (though he doesn't realize it) by both as well. I do occasionally. But my friend and I agreed that it's kind of nice either way. As long as it's not over the top, it's an ego boost.

The world is just trying to remind you that you're hot. :P

[roxann_ireland]

The problem is not the gender, it's the age. Dude, you are so old, you are like...

...

...5 years older than me.

D'oh! (>_<)

[_bitterglitter_]

LOL. Well, I always had a thing for old dudes, so I don't see the problem. :P

Hehe.