Mr. Creep

[Lyse]

I learnt French in North Carolina and from a man from Italy. . Luckily, the few native French speakers I've met said my accent was *too* bizarre.

[Flying Grype]

Speaking only for myself, there is a bit of a difference between a man 20+ years older than me engaging in some harmless flirting and that same man being creepy about it. Unfortunately it is one of those issues that relies heavily on tone and expression to interpret.

Agreed. Last week I was at a party and a guy (maybe ten years older than me) said as we were introduced that I had beautiful eyes. Then he added that he was not hitting on me, he just wanted to say so. And I believed him. First, he shares an apartment with a female friend of mine, and if he was a creeper she wouldn't do that. Second, he didn't say anything like that for the rest of the night. We had good conversations and he didn't monopolize anyone. I don't mind that kind of compliment coming from that kind of person.

[wagegoth]

I had one caller (who may have been a hunk; he was a park ranger in LA), but I was living with someone long-term, and I lived 400 miles away. I told him this, but he kept coming up with excuses to call. The topper was when his dad called to try to get me to go out with his son. I was seriously squicked after that.

[TigressChar]

I've had guys ask me to their rooms (I work in a hotel)
Thats the point when I keep my keys on the desk and lock all access doors.

[MoonCat]

I love accents from the UK, but I would never tell a guy on the phone that. It's not appropriate.

If a customer on the phone asks me if I'm married, I always say yes (I'm not, but it's also none of their business). It usually shuts them down.

[Primer]

DH recently reconnected with an Army buddy from 20+ years ago. He and his wife, DH and I have been to a few Renn Fests as a group. Buddy and Wife belong to a swingers' group, and is actively working on Dirty Old Man status. It's one thing to LOOK at all the scantily clad women running around, but I feel that propositioning them is a bit out of line. When We all went a few weeks ago, Buddy said something that made me, personally, breathe a bit easier. Apparently he likes the short skinny women. I'm short, but I'm far from skinny. I've been afraid that he was going to hit on me and I'd have to put some serious hurt on him. I still don't like the way he acts towards the other women--but his wife doesn't seem to care one way or the other.

Anyway, at work or not, I don't react well to somebody saying that kind of stuff to me. And I DID tell him to tone it down towards the other women.

[dalesys]

You're not going to be able to see or feel the rash over the bruise I'm going to kick into you.

[EricKei]

Buddy and Wife belong to a swingers' group,

Swingers? Really? o_O I thought that ...uh... way of doing things disappeared ages ago >_>

[DGoddessChardonnay]

And I'm not even sure they stop there........

And they probably couldn't get laid by a corpse if their life depended on it, either.

[mharbourgirl]

I have a lot of fun with my accent both here in Canada and a lot when I go down to the USA. When people ask where I am from, I ask them to guess which island I am from.

But I was born in England, moved to Jamaica, then to Canada - My accent is really mixed up.

Ah, then you sound pretty Canadian, I'd say.

I'm a verbal chameleon. If I'm talking to someone with an accent, it doesn't take long before I'm speaking in the same accent. If I've known them long enough, I start using their dialect. I have one co-worker who can't be convinced I'm NOT from 'sarf Lunnin', and nobody here in Nova Scotia believes I'm really from the west coast until they hear me on the phone with the Vancouver office. A couple of French-Canadian co-workers suspect I'm really from northern New Brunswick.

The very best one, though, came about as a result of taking German in high school. I ran into some German tourists at my job the summer after I graduated, and took the opportunity to practice my German. I was a bit flustered when the ladies started giggling, but they managed to explain that my German, while grammatically correct, was delivered in the most horrible Dutch accent they'd ever heard. Yeah, my German teach was Dutch.

[Jay 2K Winger]

Ah, then you sound pretty Canadian, I'd say.

I'm a verbal chameleon. If I'm talking to someone with an accent, it doesn't take long before I'm speaking in the same accent. If I've known them long enough, I start using their dialect. I have one co-worker who can't be convinced I'm NOT from 'sarf Lunnin', and nobody here in Nova Scotia believes I'm really from the west coast until they hear me on the phone with the Vancouver office. A couple of French-Canadian co-workers suspect I'm really from northern New Brunswick.

The very best one, though, came about as a result of taking German in high school. I ran into some German tourists at my job the summer after I graduated, and took the opportunity to practice my German. I was a bit flustered when the ladies started giggling, but they managed to explain that my German, while grammatically correct, was delivered in the most horrible Dutch accent they'd ever heard. Yeah, my German teach was Dutch.

People have often remarked on my ability to reproduce accents and dialects and voices. It's not always note-perfect. But if I've been watching a movie that features a particular accent (such as Fargo), I can usually call up that accent easily for a while until I fall out of practice.

[dragon_wings]

I've been talking to a friend from the midwest a lot lately and I've noticed I'm using a Midwestern accent on a few of my words now. :P
I too am a verbal chameleon.