Unrequited Lust There was some ilicit romance in my life last week. Or, rather, I had a close encounter with what could have been romantic, had it been less absurd. For the first couple of weeks of this summer contract, I spent a lot of time printing things. Not just on a standard printer, but big coloured maps that need to be printed on plotters. Here we have a special room on the other side of the building for all the plotters and scanners so I was walking a lot too. At the same time as I was doing this, a young man called Tony was scanning airphotos. About 10,000 of them I think he said. He was spending more time in the plotting/scanning room than I was. So, being the friendly folks we are, we chatted. Mostly complaining about the mundane tasks we'd been saddled with, but we chatted none the less. Then, one day, as I was waiting for a plot, he made fun of my rolled up pants since they were obviously too long. We laughed, I told him my pant woes, and then I went back to my office. Now, it's important to point out now, that neither of us ever mentioned what project, supervisor, or part of the building we worked in. But, later that day, he appeared in my office. This means that he wandered the building looking in office doors until he spotted me. Then, he made me come for a walk with him through the halls while he appologized for making fun of my pants. And then, at a confluence of several hallways, with two older geologists talking about something not four feet away, he asked me on a date. It probably doesn't convey well, but the situation was so totally bizzare that I was close to laughing anyway, and I came very close to laughing at him. But, I managed to tell him I had a boyfriend without mishap and he was very gracious and that was the end of it. The whole thing left me feeling strange though. Like my behaviour was inappropriate somehow. I thought I was being friendly, we only talked about work, is there such a thing as too friendly? So, there we go, an almost perfect stranger asked me out on a date. I'm obviously irresistible. |