So my students are taking a quiz right now, yes I am on SG while at work and if i venture too far into the site would most likely get fired, but that is for home anyway. I'm trying to adjust to the life of a single person again and finding that it is a fairly difficult thing to do. If anyone has suggestions please let me know. Pocatello is a VERY small agrarian town in south-eastern Idaho and there are little to no prospects here. Besides, I am 30 and those that are potentially dateable are at least a decade younger than me. Than means essentially they missed the 80s. I'm not sure I can comfortably date someone who never truly understood the Hammer Slide, who was not alive to witness the first Jackson moonwalk, or who can truly share my great distaste for neon. Sure fashion seems to be leaning that way again, I saw a girls rocking the side pony-tail the other day and nearly fell into fits of mirth, but unless you were there the first time hyper color shirts and jelly bracelets were vogue, you just don't understand.
Anyway, why do i bring all this up? Well yesterday I had a friend of to my place for some light conversation and to give her a tub of fresh milled peanut butter (it was an inside joke), and I found myself torn between wanting to flirt and thinking she is barely 20, and I am almost 31. 11 YEARS!!!!!!! No way in hell! MY ex-wife is 26 and to jump down that far seemed wrong and dirty. But she was really cute, and kept giving me "the look" (at least I think she was). There was a lot of smiling, laughter, coy glances, etc... Was I reading too much into the situation? Should I have tried to make some type of advance? Seriously girls scare the hell out of me now. Being married for seven years, a year of which I was separated from my wife, has turned me into a complete basket case.
I don't know the social protocol anymore (not that I ever really did, but still ...). Please tell me this gets easier over time! Here is how pathetic I was, I resorted to all the cliched tricks, busting out the guitar, using simple excuses to get closer and instigate closer contact, "the lean," and then when she left there was a moment where the hug good-bye was reaching the "too long now what do you do" stage, but not the uncomfortable kind, the "maybe you won't let go and that's ok" kind. I don't know! Does any of this even make sense? I think I may be losing my mind. I hate being 30 and feeling like a nerdy 16-year-old who can't get the girls to notice him. Grrrrrrrr!
Anyway, perhaps I'm simply over thinking everything and there was nothing to last night but idle conversation and good company. Although she did come over to talk to me aobut her ex-boyfriend who is desperately trying to get back together with her. Is that a good or a bad sign? Hmmmmmmmmmm, advice please!
Cheers,
Price
Anyway, why do i bring all this up? Well yesterday I had a friend of to my place for some light conversation and to give her a tub of fresh milled peanut butter (it was an inside joke), and I found myself torn between wanting to flirt and thinking she is barely 20, and I am almost 31. 11 YEARS!!!!!!! No way in hell! MY ex-wife is 26 and to jump down that far seemed wrong and dirty. But she was really cute, and kept giving me "the look" (at least I think she was). There was a lot of smiling, laughter, coy glances, etc... Was I reading too much into the situation? Should I have tried to make some type of advance? Seriously girls scare the hell out of me now. Being married for seven years, a year of which I was separated from my wife, has turned me into a complete basket case.
I don't know the social protocol anymore (not that I ever really did, but still ...). Please tell me this gets easier over time! Here is how pathetic I was, I resorted to all the cliched tricks, busting out the guitar, using simple excuses to get closer and instigate closer contact, "the lean," and then when she left there was a moment where the hug good-bye was reaching the "too long now what do you do" stage, but not the uncomfortable kind, the "maybe you won't let go and that's ok" kind. I don't know! Does any of this even make sense? I think I may be losing my mind. I hate being 30 and feeling like a nerdy 16-year-old who can't get the girls to notice him. Grrrrrrrr!
Anyway, perhaps I'm simply over thinking everything and there was nothing to last night but idle conversation and good company. Although she did come over to talk to me aobut her ex-boyfriend who is desperately trying to get back together with her. Is that a good or a bad sign? Hmmmmmmmmmm, advice please!
Cheers,
Price
1) She likes you and is asking about the ex-boyfriend to see how you respond. If you're a complete dick about it, there goes your chance. If you handle it like a pro, then that's a +1 (or more) to you.
2) She likes you and is confused.
Either way, it sounds like she likes you. Best of luck. And don't get intimidated by her age. Women who like older men are smart. They know older men know what's up. Let's be real - guys in their 20s are generally idiots. I know I was.