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Don't you hate that awkward feeling that comes over you when someone you think is attractive unexpectedly comes up to talk to you?
One of the instructors at the coaching clinic I attended yesterday, a guy from Austin, Texas, is, um, very attractive. Late 20s, tall, lanky, Jewish features, dark, buzz-cut hair -- cookie-cutter profile of a guy who would draw a double-take from me, and, to make matters worse, a very eloquent science nerd. (Relationship or no, everyone has those generic 'types,' right, that make you look?)
I'd posed a question to the three instructors for their opinion on something. He didn't answer immediately, but the other two instructors did. After the day's session was over, he came up to me personally to answer my question, because he said he didn't want to bother the whole class with a long story, catching me by surprise. So as he's telling me his tale -- something about as a coach how he'd dealt with a girl who was incredibly fit and strong but had psychological issues -- I'm trying to maintain eye contact, thinking:
OHMIGODI'MNOTHEARINGAWORDHE'SSAYING
TRYTOPAYATTENTIONSHITICAN'T
IHOPEHEDOESN'TASKMEAQUESTION
TRYNOTTOLOOKEMBARRASSEDFUCKTOOLATE
SAYSOMETHINGFERCRISSAKESSOHEDOESN'TTHINKYOU'RESTUPID
CANYOULOOKLIKEABIGGERIDIOT
HOLYFUCKINGSHITIHOPETHISCONVERSATIONENDSSOON
I somehow managed to eek out a couple of related questions, but I realized after I'd asked it that one was on a topic that he'd just mentioned.
I hate that. Stoopid. Now, if you'll excuse me, I have to go to my locker before geometry to get my Trapper-Keeper.
Current mood: Embarrassed
Replies: 1 shoutout
Dats too funny. Your brain yells at you. Not only that but does it without any pauses. Mine's more like a whisper and sounds like:
uh, hello?! is anyone listening? (long pause) what the hell! think something. (long pause) ok, then just say something stupid. (long pause) say anything. (long pause) oh my god, not that stupid. (long pause) blush ... blush more ... blush even more (long pause) great, i think that went very well.
Posted by Wiph @ 01/30/2006 02:58 PM EST