ok, so last night i had a time and place violation, which upset a friend of mine (that situation got partially resolved later that night, but still, you know how it is). anyway, afterwards we went shopping, as we were in pentagon city mall at the time. went to structure, soon to be express, and that rant is a whole other blog. anyway, so this girl asks me if i need help, i say no. then this guy asks me if i need help with jeans. i think to myself, they got a billion types, but i just have a feeling i can handle this, as, you know, i can see and all. anyway, so i start talking to erin about what happened and get really into it as we're looking at clothes and i am very catty at this point (sadly, i was catty). anyway, the jeans guy comes ACROSS the store and starts making conversation with me about where i ate, cause i have the leftovers with me. at the time, i just started ranting about the restaurant absent mindedly as i walk away.
so here's the funny part, and it comes in multiple stages. First of all, he already greeted me, and i declined assistance, and somebody was on the side of the store i went to when he talked to me the second time. this means he went out of his way to talk to me again. so was he flirting? im really bad at figuring these things out, and i usually only figure it out later, or when someone tells me. Second, if he was flirting, i feel bad, because the last time i got hit on was when i worked at ticketmaster, which was a few months ago at least. this doesn't happen very often to me, folks. I'm not exactly mr. hyper-attractive superstar. so even though his flirting would have no consequences whatsoever and nothing would come of it, i feel bad i blew him off like that. someone, anyone, who takes time out to make me think someone finds me attractive deserves more than a rant about mozzarella's. i guess i feel guity because someone was being nice to me, and the least I could have done was be courteous.
but at the same time, i feel stupid for thinking that, because 1.) I don't know the guy and will never see him again, and 2.)its not like the situation would turn out differently had i responded differently. either way, i never see this person again. its just funny. i guess im glad people don't flirt with me that much, or i'd deal with this every day. there, that's a good justification for not working out
