Thursday, March 30, 2006

You gotta give the guy credit for trying...

I walked home alone from band practice last night, through one of the not so nice parts of town. I do this pretty regularly, but Toronto is a safe city and even its not so nice neighbourhoods are pretty OK. Anyway, odd stuff often happens on the way home, and sometimes you meet some characters, but usually the attention I get is of the less conventional variety i.e. crazies.
So last night something oddly normal happened, a guy followed me home trying to pick me up, making conversation the whole way.
I saw him from across the street and he was waving trying to get my attention, I, of course, ignored him, then he crossed and asked for a cigarette, I said I didn't smoke. Then he walked next to me and tried to make conversation,
Guy - Where are you going?
Me - Home
Guy - Nice weather
Me - Yeah
Guy - What do you do for work?
Me - silence
Guy - Sometimes people have interesting jobs
Me - silence
Guy - gets a cell phone call
Guy - I'm going to a bar to shoot some pool
Me - silence
Guy - Would you like to come?
Me - No thanks

I've been having this kind of stuff happen a lot lately, it might be the weightloss, or the new clothes that came with the weightloss. Unwanted attention from horny boys is certainly not something I'm relishing about being thinner, but I guess it's a nice change from only getting unwanted attention from total lunatics.

12 comments:

Anonymous said...

Band practice? Since when are flutaphones part of the band? Does the band involve "marching" and you're using Jarvis Street and it isn't the full moon? And, well I saw Vicky Pollard on the Spadina line last night yeah but, no but, yea but, no but

Jennifer said...

Guillaume? Is that you?
It's not my band, I don't care about music!

yrautca said...

You are cruel. My entire plan all along was to follow you to your place at night and try and make conversation. Now I have to come up with some other plan.

Jennifer said...

If that's your dating strategy, then it's a wonder that you are single, my friend.

I wasn't cruel, I said, "No thank you" instead of, "Not on your effing life!" or, "Sure I'll go with you, when monkeys fly out of my butt!"

I don't get why people think it's OK to ask personal questions like where are you going, what do you do for a living... I'd never ask that. I almost flipped my lid when Yrautca mentioned about that girl asking how much he made. I'd have left, no point in continuing a date with someone who is, if not money-grubbing, then extremely tacky.
I don't even really like being asked what I do for a living when I meet someone at a party and they are asking get-to-know-you questions, I think it's lazy conversation, think of something else to say. Obviously, I don't bite their head off, because it's considered socially acceptable to ask, but I definitely take note of it.

yrautca said...

Hmmm...i think if i were around you and really liked you a lot that it would be very difficult for me to approach you because you are kind of intimidating. i'd have a secret crush on you till i died without you knowing about it. you are probably difficult to hit on, as compared to say, Ms Ash. or maybe not.

yrautca said...

or maybe i WILL hit on you just so you can treat me like shit and trun me down. my masochistic streak.

Princess Pessimism said...

I like the lunatics....they're entertaining sometimes....but WAY funnier when their attention is not focused on me

Jennifer said...

Yrautca,
You are right, I'm terribly hard to hit on. Mostly because I'm not friendly, I usually use the same facial expression at bars as I do on public transit, you know, that don't-fuck-with-me look.
The other thing is that when someone hits on me it's often more entertaining to turn the person down than to actually give the person a chance - thus one would have to be pretty entertaining to get a chance.
Of course, that's all moot now that I'm decidedly not single.

yrautca said...

What, did you get engaged? Anything less than engagement is negotiable. I have every confidence that you will love me at first sight.

Jennifer said...

Yrautca,
Everything in relationships is negotiable, and needless to say that the monogamy in my relationship has already been negotiated, that's not to say that it won't be renegotiated later, but if I were you I wouldn't hold my breath.
And I love lots of people I'd never consider sleeping with.

yrautca said...

Why not? I love abortion now. I love it. What else should I love for you to love me like that?

yrautca said...

Off topic:

About your comment on my blog regarding evolution, I admit maybe I was too quick to join the dots on race. My mindset was look at Africa fighting for their survival and look at the West unhappy because they dont have an iPod. In the end, one race may survive and the other might not. Maybe one race is more adept to surviving and advancing its own kind. I admit this in itself sounds a bit racist but you can look at the world today and can see some races doing much better than other races.