Yavor
02-28-2005, 02:40 PM
Some reflections on my last week's flirting spree. Flirting en masse :D
Starting with a political meeting where I met a cute member of parliament who used to be model and TV presenter. I was gladly surprised by her wise and rather apolitical talk and after the session I went to congratulate her that she wasn't a "blonde". Everything was going well as I was engulfing her with compliments until I found that she was married. Argh! What is the fastest way to find out whether someone is married or not if they don't wear a ring?
But then I noticed her cute secretary and went over to her. Unfortunately the poor creature had to run errands all the time and I just couldn't have a decent unbroken conversation with her as she was whizzing around on her dangerous high heels. Thank God there was carpet on the marble floor, otherwise she would have made people think somebody is machine gunning in the hall!
Eventually I got tired of our silenced female machine gunner and found another woman to flirt with. She turned out to be the Ciggy Queen - the biggest cigarette wholesaler in town 8-}=~
On another occasion, a wine exhibition, a had a chance to flirt with a young lady who was hired by a businessman from Southern Italy to translate from Italian and to run the occasional PR. It took me 2 days to steal her from her boss. He gave me an angry "mafioso" look when he found out that I wasn't interested in his wines but in his assistant. The date was not a success. This girl had no reflex for flirting and I couldn't move the conversation away from politics into more romantic matters. We spent the whole time intellectualising on EU politics. When we parted I wished her much success and told her I will vote for her if she ever runs for president of the EU.
Wednesday evening I went to dinner with two Greek guys, my dad and an attractive colleague of his. Unfortunately I couldn't position myself strategically close to the lady and ended talking over one of the Greek guys head. He couldn't understand what we were chatting and our giggling was apparently irritating him. Then he started smoking cigarettes. Bad Greek ciggies. One after the other :-( Anyway, I managed to win her over to come with me on a ski trip next week.
But then the next day I met a girl who really caught my attention.
It wasn't her body (which some here may call "intimidating") and it wasn't her attire (or the sparseness of it - you don't see many bare bellies around here in the middle of winter), but the ease talking to her. Our conversation was smooth as 10 yr old whiskey and it felt very natural to be with her. I became fully aware of this only in retrospect, after we met, because I was so caught up when I was with her.
I met her at a music shop where I went looking for new CDs, she was working there. When I saw her I had no intent to flirt with her, but once we started talking there was no stopping us :-) We must have talked half an hour over the counter.
At one point I asked her whether they have some new French CDs and used the occasion to tell her a few funny stories with my cute French teacher Nadine. Then she suddenly interrupted me and said
"Stop talking about her!"
"Are you jealous?" was my half-joking reply.
You can't imagine the amount of non-verbal communication that passed between us in this moment 8)
Then I dared to ask her out but she said her boyfriend would kill her if he found out. But I haven't given up yet and I'll visit her again!
What was this component that made communication between us so easy and open, from the very first second we met?
Normally, when I meet a strange woman there's always an initial communication barier between us. Even when this barrier is "dissolved" conversation can still feel very strained and artificial. But in this case I didn't feel the need to act this way. Not at all.
I suppose many of you should have experienced something similar.
Starting with a political meeting where I met a cute member of parliament who used to be model and TV presenter. I was gladly surprised by her wise and rather apolitical talk and after the session I went to congratulate her that she wasn't a "blonde". Everything was going well as I was engulfing her with compliments until I found that she was married. Argh! What is the fastest way to find out whether someone is married or not if they don't wear a ring?
But then I noticed her cute secretary and went over to her. Unfortunately the poor creature had to run errands all the time and I just couldn't have a decent unbroken conversation with her as she was whizzing around on her dangerous high heels. Thank God there was carpet on the marble floor, otherwise she would have made people think somebody is machine gunning in the hall!
Eventually I got tired of our silenced female machine gunner and found another woman to flirt with. She turned out to be the Ciggy Queen - the biggest cigarette wholesaler in town 8-}=~
On another occasion, a wine exhibition, a had a chance to flirt with a young lady who was hired by a businessman from Southern Italy to translate from Italian and to run the occasional PR. It took me 2 days to steal her from her boss. He gave me an angry "mafioso" look when he found out that I wasn't interested in his wines but in his assistant. The date was not a success. This girl had no reflex for flirting and I couldn't move the conversation away from politics into more romantic matters. We spent the whole time intellectualising on EU politics. When we parted I wished her much success and told her I will vote for her if she ever runs for president of the EU.
Wednesday evening I went to dinner with two Greek guys, my dad and an attractive colleague of his. Unfortunately I couldn't position myself strategically close to the lady and ended talking over one of the Greek guys head. He couldn't understand what we were chatting and our giggling was apparently irritating him. Then he started smoking cigarettes. Bad Greek ciggies. One after the other :-( Anyway, I managed to win her over to come with me on a ski trip next week.
But then the next day I met a girl who really caught my attention.
It wasn't her body (which some here may call "intimidating") and it wasn't her attire (or the sparseness of it - you don't see many bare bellies around here in the middle of winter), but the ease talking to her. Our conversation was smooth as 10 yr old whiskey and it felt very natural to be with her. I became fully aware of this only in retrospect, after we met, because I was so caught up when I was with her.
I met her at a music shop where I went looking for new CDs, she was working there. When I saw her I had no intent to flirt with her, but once we started talking there was no stopping us :-) We must have talked half an hour over the counter.
At one point I asked her whether they have some new French CDs and used the occasion to tell her a few funny stories with my cute French teacher Nadine. Then she suddenly interrupted me and said
"Stop talking about her!"
"Are you jealous?" was my half-joking reply.
You can't imagine the amount of non-verbal communication that passed between us in this moment 8)
Then I dared to ask her out but she said her boyfriend would kill her if he found out. But I haven't given up yet and I'll visit her again!
What was this component that made communication between us so easy and open, from the very first second we met?
Normally, when I meet a strange woman there's always an initial communication barier between us. Even when this barrier is "dissolved" conversation can still feel very strained and artificial. But in this case I didn't feel the need to act this way. Not at all.
I suppose many of you should have experienced something similar.

