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Someone likes me! But he's shy
Not the guy from my 28 year old virgin thread - unfortunately things with him are just not working out at all, but that's another story. (and yes, I'm still the 28 year old virgin. No biggie)
This one is actually a younger guy, he's been with the store for a little over a year. I have him on Facebook, and a few months ago, he started sending random smiley faces over the chat feature. Eventually that became flirting, with the messages growing increasingly more . . . shall we say, shameless? Honestly he's a bit of a perv sometimes, but so am I. He has outright said that he finds me attractive, beautiful, cute, etc. Through mutual friends who play in the same WoW guild, I've learned he's got a little bit of a dating phobia. Have no idea what the last girl did to him, but it's made him a little gun shy, it would seem. Anywho, back to the point. Thursday he came into the breakroom at work while I was sitting with a pharmacy coworker and poked me. So I poked back. This went on for a little bit. Then he left, but we exchanged text messages for the rest of the day. He actually wanted me to come over after work and watch a movie with him, but I panicked a little (and had work the next day) and said I couldn't. I'm kind of regretting that now, but I'm hoping for another opportunity, but we kept talking and exchanging pictures. (CLOTHED! Haha) There's also a slight age gap that could make things weird, he's 22 and I'll be 29 in Feburary. Initially he did think I was younger, but I came clean about it. It doesn't seem to be a problem. There's just the slight possibility of things being slightly weird.
Herein lies the problem - he can talk online or text for hours, but when I am actually, physically in the same proximity, he goes almost totally mute. I call it Koothrapali Syndrome, anyone who watches The Big Bang Theory will know what I mean. When I actually thought about it, even when I do see him with friends, he doesn't say much, but keeps his head down and concentrates on his MtG cards or whatever they're playing at the time.
*Yes, he is a HUGE geek. I am not only totally OK with this, but it's actually a bonus. He showed up to work in Sith robes and boots on Halloween. That's hot.
At least I know he's someone who won't blink twice about my LotR and Pirates of the Caribbean action figure collections, or that I have over half a dozen swords/fighting knives/scimitars lying around or hanging on the wall. Or the need to buy collector's edition and director's cuts of movies. And so forth.
I do understand the being quiet thing. I used to BE that way and only in the past few years did I get coaxed out of my shell by people who became and remain very good friends. I used to dread human interaction, especially if it was someone I liked. I just couldn't talk to them. I just never thought I'd have the tables turned on me. He obviously CAN talk, he interacts with customers all day, and I've heard him a few times. He just goes particularly quiet around me and when he does talk to people, like I said, he sits very close, almost with their heads together. Gods help me but I really have grown to like this person, and we have a lot in common. He's said things over text that have made even a gutter-mind like myself turn interesting shades of red, but in 'real life' it's hard to get him to even look at me, although that's getting better and he actually gave me THE most evil smile/wink combination last night.
Gah . . . so in short . . . how do I get him to talk? LOL
This one is actually a younger guy, he's been with the store for a little over a year. I have him on Facebook, and a few months ago, he started sending random smiley faces over the chat feature. Eventually that became flirting, with the messages growing increasingly more . . . shall we say, shameless? Honestly he's a bit of a perv sometimes, but so am I. He has outright said that he finds me attractive, beautiful, cute, etc. Through mutual friends who play in the same WoW guild, I've learned he's got a little bit of a dating phobia. Have no idea what the last girl did to him, but it's made him a little gun shy, it would seem. Anywho, back to the point. Thursday he came into the breakroom at work while I was sitting with a pharmacy coworker and poked me. So I poked back. This went on for a little bit. Then he left, but we exchanged text messages for the rest of the day. He actually wanted me to come over after work and watch a movie with him, but I panicked a little (and had work the next day) and said I couldn't. I'm kind of regretting that now, but I'm hoping for another opportunity, but we kept talking and exchanging pictures. (CLOTHED! Haha) There's also a slight age gap that could make things weird, he's 22 and I'll be 29 in Feburary. Initially he did think I was younger, but I came clean about it. It doesn't seem to be a problem. There's just the slight possibility of things being slightly weird.
Herein lies the problem - he can talk online or text for hours, but when I am actually, physically in the same proximity, he goes almost totally mute. I call it Koothrapali Syndrome, anyone who watches The Big Bang Theory will know what I mean. When I actually thought about it, even when I do see him with friends, he doesn't say much, but keeps his head down and concentrates on his MtG cards or whatever they're playing at the time.
*Yes, he is a HUGE geek. I am not only totally OK with this, but it's actually a bonus. He showed up to work in Sith robes and boots on Halloween. That's hot.
At least I know he's someone who won't blink twice about my LotR and Pirates of the Caribbean action figure collections, or that I have over half a dozen swords/fighting knives/scimitars lying around or hanging on the wall. Or the need to buy collector's edition and director's cuts of movies. And so forth. I do understand the being quiet thing. I used to BE that way and only in the past few years did I get coaxed out of my shell by people who became and remain very good friends. I used to dread human interaction, especially if it was someone I liked. I just couldn't talk to them. I just never thought I'd have the tables turned on me. He obviously CAN talk, he interacts with customers all day, and I've heard him a few times. He just goes particularly quiet around me and when he does talk to people, like I said, he sits very close, almost with their heads together. Gods help me but I really have grown to like this person, and we have a lot in common. He's said things over text that have made even a gutter-mind like myself turn interesting shades of red, but in 'real life' it's hard to get him to even look at me, although that's getting better and he actually gave me THE most evil smile/wink combination last night.
Gah . . . so in short . . . how do I get him to talk? LOL
Maybe I should try getting into gaming or learn about the Star Wars expanded universe, he lives in it. Again, this isn't a bad thing. I've just come a little un-geeked over the years and I need to get back into the swing of things, so to speak.
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