Tuesday, May 11, 2010
# Close
I'll call this girl Megan K. For some reason, she's just one of those people that I always had a hard time remembering. At school this year, I've seen her in the halls a few times, and she would say hi to me but I could never figure out what her fwcking name was. Turns out I had a class with her last year that I never knew she was in. I only found out what her name was when she was voted onto Prom Court.
Also, I figured out later that I had hung out with her once before, with a girl friend and guy friend of mine on a weekday to watch the TV show Lost. She doesn't even watch the show, idk why she was there but I never talked to her the whole time. Instead, I was cussing out the TV n sh1t cuz I always do that when I watch Lost.
And I know I have high value in her eyes cuz she was there when I asked Sherman C to prom in front of the whole girls' track team by taking my shirt off.
The "Pickup"
I was taking an AP test today, and she sat two seats in front and one to the right of me. There was like 10 minutes before the test started and everyone was just being social. I was mostly talking to the guys behind me and the girls to the left of me, but at some point Megan K either started a convo with me or gave me some IOI and I opened, I can't remember. We chatted a little about the test, that was it.
Near the end of part I of the test, I fell asleep and made some really weird involuntary groan or something, and everyone kept taking the test, except Megan K looked over and laughed. At this point, I thought, "game on" and immediately prepared myself to sarge.
At the end of part I, we had like a 10 minute break, and I walked with Megan K to the bathroom. We talked about the test and laughed a bit at the noise I made. Our convo was broken by some guy coming to ask me something but she re-engaged me. She laughed at something I said that was only semi-funny.
Back to the testing room, took part II, then got up to get my phone back. Someone called me right then and there, so I answered in front of Megan K. Whoop-dee-do, she has the same phone and takes it out. Should I have just gotten the number right here since both our phones were out? Idk, but I didn't. I explained to her the joke that my phone background was and she loved it, and it led to me finding out that she plays guitar (I do for fun).
So we're leaving the test room and I'm talking to her a bit about guitar. A couple times, other people jump in to talk to me (free DHV I guess) and she sticks around so we keep talking. Then I gotta go to my locker and she has to go a different direction. I said "We should play together (guitar)" I can't remember what she said, but then I asked, "What's your number?" She gave it to me, than said "That was easy" about something, I have no idea what she was talking about. In my head I thought, "what, the # close?" LOL.
I said I'd send her a text so she has mine too, then said "Let's do it on Friday." She said she couldn't cuz she had to help out with Boys' track...I think a legitimate excuse, but still Strike #1 cuz she didn't counter-offer. I should have persisted and suggested Saturday, right? I didn't cuz I guess I felt like I'd seem too available for being open Friday AND Saturday...but it shouldn't have mattered.
So...
Attraction--only source was DHV, and maybe that I also play guitar. Didn't comment on her looks cuz, well...there wasn't a good time for it in our short convo, and honestly she didn't look great today, had her hair tied up and was wearing a shirt and jeans.
Comfort--not enough, I think. I'm starting to realize that 10 minutes is a really short time to "bond" with someone, and great rapport comes from that huge "clicking" that just seems to happen with people you really like...I know I still think of her as "some girl", maybe she thinks of me as more, but I really realize now how low comfort can contribute to flaking. We didn't really make any huge connections. I probably could have made guitar a bigger connection by acting more excited when I said "me too". Also, no STatement of Interest, making her qualify herself, push/pull...oh well.
-Basically I just talked to a girl for a few minutes and got her number. I made her laugh a few times but that was it. No real flirting, qualifying her, making the conversation that of between a guy and girl. And actually, I never even kinoed her. I'm usually really good with that, so much that lately I've cut down on it a little bit cuz I think I got too touchy-feely.
-Although I did get the #, I still kind of got it through a back-door means through pretending to be her friend who also plays guitar...so I need to re-frame it and get it away from guitar right?
-Since I didn't persist and ask for Saturday, looks like I gotta do the whole thing over again IF I happen to see her in the halls at school...it'd be way too much setting up over text, and girls at my school just don't like to talk on the phone.