my general response to any stare that lasts too long is to assume the person's a lech

I guess my default is "what is he/she *staring* at?" Unless I'm dressed up and meaning to be attractive, I don't usually think of sex first.

Staring at my body or my lips in a patently mind-elsewhere-carnal way...

...doesn't bother me (lately I kinda wish somebody *would*), but it's different than the predatory aggressive sexual stare.

Anyway, I answered to the Coffee Bean guy who called me Taylor for a month. I will answer to anything if it means getting the transaction over sooner. I will just judge you until the end of time.

Ha! Me too. If the extent of our interactions is, here's the money, gimme my thing, or hi/hi/see ya, I don't care whose name they call me by. I just want to get done with it.

Safeway cashiers are forced to address customers by their first names and I hate it.

They do it off the receipt at least, not the credit card.

I love Time Team and wish I could watch it online.

If you're willing to have fun with ISP/region blocker stuff, all of the series are available on 4OD.

I don't have a proxy server to enter into anything. From what I saw last time I looked, things are geared towards non-US people wanting to watch US content. I didn't see much out there for US folks wanting to watching UK content. But maybe I'm just too un-savvy in these matters to see what's in front of me.

Unless I'm dressed up and meaning to be attractive, I don't usually think of sex first.

Oh, but see, they're a creeper! That's the magic of the whole thing. I don't have to be attractive. There's something wrong with them. It's a very tidy system.

Also, when I'm dressed up, I'm usually in alpha-fuckit mindset, and I'd never notice something like that.

doesn't bother me

Totally bothers me! Please maintain extended eye contact instead! Do not have sex thoughts about my mouth! Do not undress me with your eyes! (Although if you have a backscatter scanner, that's perfectly okay)

Do not undress me with your eyes! (Although if you have a backscatter scanner, that's perfectly okay)

I feel that "LOL" is totally appropriate here.

Years ago when I was at a Starbucks on Wilshire (Korea Town)a funny thing happened. The Batista asked for the name of the person in front of me (to write it on the cup)and the woman didn't respond but smiled rather amusedly. A big guy with her pushed his way to the front counter and gruffed that a name "shouldn't be necessary", but if it was, "just write down 'LM'". I thought it was silly but sort of understood when she turned around a few seconds later. It was Lisa Marie Presley. And wow is she usually deeply photoshopped! She's a dead ringer for Elvis and looks not much like the photos on the tabloid covers.

The Batista asked for the name

You were getting served coffee by a Cuban dictator?

You were getting served coffee by a Cuban dictator?

That's how Castro overthrew him - he was too busy serving coffee....

It has been hard trying to get out of the house and socialize here. Someone I am acquainted with from the Bay Area had to move back in with her parents as well and she grew up down here. She has a friend down here who never left and they are total BFFs. The friend is lightly acquainted with me as well. I invited them to my house for my small bday party. I changed the date to work with their schedules. They forgot about it after RSVPing yes. Never showed up. Didn't really seem sorry at all when they found out.

I decided to not hold a grudge and to try again. More than 2 weeks I wrote them asking if they'd like to see Harry Potter together. I've had some response from the one I know best but the other person hasn't responded so nothing's happening. They both know and see other people. I know they have large friend networks. Yet when it comes to me trying to ask them anywhere, it's like that BFF shield just bounces everything off.

So I guess I'm just going to the movies by myself again.