So, one of the guys at work (someone I only see a few times a month) just hit on me. Not in a creepy way or anything, but I got flustered so I kind of plowed on with the original conversation. I think maybe he thought I was being rude, but geez. How do I react to that? He seems like a really nice guy and he really wasn't being creepy, but it's work! If I knew him like this socially I would have flirted back and probably exchanged numbers, instead I felt like a deer in the headlights.
Angel: Will you just shut up for once?! Illyria: What? Angel: My God, the speechifying. Has it ever occurred to you that now might not be the best time for when-we-were-muck stories?
'Time Bomb'
Spike's Bitches 27: I'm Embarrassed for Our Kind.
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askye - Dec 01, 2005 6:51:19 am PST #7402 of 10003
Thrive to spite them
erikaj - Dec 01, 2005 7:00:35 am PST #7403 of 10003
Always Anti-fascist!
At least it was not like when my friend's pervy friend hit on me and I came back with "Dude, you don't understand. I don't even like you." (that was after several kinder efforts failed to back him up, and was the complete unvarnished truth.)
Scrappy - Dec 01, 2005 7:21:56 am PST #7404 of 10003
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
So go out with him. If you only see him a couple of times month, no big.
Signed,
Friends Who Met at Work and Dated and then Got Married Just Had A Baby Boy on Monday
§ ita § - Dec 01, 2005 7:25:42 am PST #7405 of 10003
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Or, if it truly makes you uncomfortable, skip it.
Scrappy - Dec 01, 2005 7:27:32 am PST #7406 of 10003
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Or what ita said.
Trudy Booth - Dec 01, 2005 7:32:47 am PST #7407 of 10003
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
How do I react to that? He seems like a really nice guy and he really wasn't being creepy, but it's work! If I knew him like this socially I would have flirted back and probably exchanged numbers, instead I felt like a deer in the headlights.
I say go for it but have a bright-line between work and not work as far as your personal relationship.
Trudy Booth - Dec 01, 2005 7:53:11 am PST #7408 of 10003
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
Oh man, teh cute: [link]
Steph L. - Dec 01, 2005 8:01:29 am PST #7409 of 10003
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
I gave up around 10:30 and came in to work. I figured that, if the Eternally Running Faucet hadn't started running heavier over the previous 3 hours, it wasn't going to at all, and I didn't want to waste my day listening to my bathtub faucet run. It was making me need to pee.
askye - Dec 01, 2005 8:12:43 am PST #7410 of 10003
Thrive to spite them
cute green puppy!!
I wasn't comfortable as much as surprised. I'm not exactly sure when I'll see him again, he works in an area I never get to, but when I do I'll flirt and see what happens.
Volans - Dec 01, 2005 8:23:13 am PST #7411 of 10003
move out and draw fire
Huh. I read the sentence
Veterinarians said it is possible for a newborn puppy's fur to be green because the placenta, which is green, rubs off at birth.
"Vegetarians said it..." and had to re-read with "Wait, so vegetarians can eat him?" in my brain.
It's been a long day.
I have no opinion on the co-worker flirtation, except that more people should flirt with askye.