Tuesday, April 20, 2010

Tips from a Wing Girl

From Target, the other day, when I *ahem* wasn't feeling good.

Here's a note of suggestion for the gentlemen: if you want to start up and conversation with a girl, slightly catch up, chat her up, or see how she's doing - that's great. Just don't do when you see her shopping in the feminine hygiene aisle. If you, as a security guard, find her in the...oh...movies section, that could be a good time to get friendly. However, if you catch her when she's shopping for "supplies," your rate of success automatically drops by about one-thousand percent. If she hands you a misplaced item that she finds in the aisle, take that as a really good opportunity to say you'll see her later. It's your call, but sticking around and trying to sympathize a conversation out of her won't really help your situation when she's already told you she doesn't feel good, and has made it pretty much as clearly clear as possible that she doesn't feel like talking...much less interacting with any human on the planet at the moment. The sad humor of the matter is she'll know exactly what's going on but will probably make little effort to relieve your sense of awkwardness.

A quick "hello" is fine, but a conversation probably isn't wanted.

If you should happen to find yourself in such a situation where you've tried to start a conversation in thus designated area and find it going towards the spectrum designated "unsuccessful," it is not recommended that you stick around to further try and fix the situation. If "that kind of stuff" doesn't bother you, that's great. However, in the silent awkwardness, if you try to break the ice by turning from her to stare at the shelves in front of her, you and she will both know that you really have no clue what you're looking at. She really doesn't need your help buying a box of tampons, anyway.

2 comments:

Aaron Delani said...

That's a totally awkward situation... some people are unintentionally creepy... some people just are creepy.

Becka_Bo said...

Haha. After the fact, I thought it was hilarious.