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(6/14/03) Damn w*rk...
Posted Jun 15, 2003
In the last 48 hours, I was at work for 27 and a half hours, plus (a total of) 5 hours of commuting. This has got to stop.
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(6/12/03) Excuses, excuses...
Posted Jun 13, 2003
So I haven't executed my Checkout Girl plan yet. This week I saw her on Tuesday and Wednesday, and neither day was really a good day for it.
On Tuesday, I went through her line, and asked her when she got off work. I think she said 8pm or 9pm, but there was a pretty long line behind me. In any case, I ended with, "See you next time," which seemed fine with her.
On Wednesday, I stood in her line for about 5 seconds, and decided to go to the shorter one a few aisles down. She looked kind of busy, and I didn't want to add to her workload too much. The interesting thing is that when I was leaving the store, I happened to pass by her counter and she gave me a big . I mean, a so big and bright that it made me a bit happier the rest of the day. I felt like I was smiling the entire way home.
Once again, I have to examine this forwards and backwards. Was she just being nice, or was she trying to make me feel more welcome? Did I give the impression that I'm not so enamoured with her that I'll wait for twice as long to leave, just to go through her line? Did her smile indicate that I should move forward? Is she seeing anyone at the moment? Does she want to? So much uncertainty...
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(6/4/03) Eeeeeeeeeeeexcelllllllllent...
Posted Jun 5, 2003
All right, here's the plan for Checkout Girl:
-I'm going to make it part of our usual conversation to ask how long she has to work that day. That gets her to tell me when she gets off work every time.
-If I happen to like that time, I'll then ask her whether she has plans afterward.
-If she gives a "no," and I've got time to hang out, I'll say to her, "Well, I'd like to have coffee with you tonight. I'll be at that coffee shop next door at (her quitting time plus one hour) and if you want to show up and hang out, that's cool. If you don't want to, that's cool too."
-And like I said, if she shows up, it'll be cool. If not, that's cool too; I'll keep going back to her line as if nothing happened.
-I've got to get myself to the point where I genuinely don't care whether she shows up or not. Usually after a hard day's work, I'm tired enough that I don't care about anything. Only thing is that usually I have to get up at 4am the next morning for work, so I can't plan on doing this on any day that I have to work the following day.
Pitfalls:
-She doesn't show up: Covered above.
-She has a boyfriend: Well, that's the whole point of having coffee with her: to find out vital information about her, including whether she has a boyfriend, where does she live, what is her phone number, whether she's a psycho, etc.
-She's seen the movie "Office Space": The "...that's cool too" line is word for word from that movie. In it, the hero gets hypnotized into being completely relaxed, so he rolls into a girl's place of employment (a restaurant, in this case) and asks her out to lunch at the place next door without any nervousness or concern. But then, he also tells her that he's going to quit his job, stop paying bills and rent, and that his job was to add the extra 2 digits to the date in bank software for Y2K, and she still is interested in him. Since I don't live in a movie, I don't know if I could do quite so well with the same sort of information. Anyway, if she's seen that movie, either she'll think I'm unoriginal, I use that line all the time, or I'm that much cooler for having seen the movie. I think she probably hasn't seen it.
-She's a psycho stalker who will attach on to me: I've never had this problem.
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(5/23/03) A message in a (electronic) bottle...
Posted May 23, 2003
Up till today, I haven't heard from either Heather in a while. Checkout Girl hasn't been around during her usual swing shift. I think that she's probably a university student who does school in the day and work at night, and I think that the term just ended and she's either not working, on vacation, or working the day shift now. I'll try showing up at random times during the day (before work, during lunch, etc.) and see if I can run into her.
As for the other Heather, I know she's been busy with exams, job interviews, etc. Every so often I'll message her on IM with a "" just to make her a little happier; her life isn't the easiest right now. There's been no response till this morning, when she sent me an email. Here's the last line of the email:
"But I did want to drop you a note to say hi, I'm still alive, and I'm thinking about you.
"Talk to you later, Heather"
I had assumed that with all that was going on, I would be pushed out of her mind till things cleared up, but perhaps that's not true. It's always nice to know that someone is thinking about you, something that I usually assume is not true.
Sometimes I wonder if it's really ethical to be trying to get Checkout Girl's attention while I've got this little arrangement with Heather. The unspoken promise is that when Heather has gotten a stable career and living situation away from her parents, then we'll be together. In my opinion, though, I've given Heather plenty of chances to stake an official claim to me, and she hasn't really taken me up on them, preferring to leave things as they are until she's done with what she's doing. And given my astounding record of successes with women, I don't think that pursuing Checkout Girl will result in a serious relationship. It'll probably be a nice friendship at best, a nodding familiarity at worst.
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(5/22/03) Must be a tough question...
Posted May 22, 2003
At the time of this writing, there are 2,463 posts to the "Where can I find some nice friendly girls?" thread in "Ask H2G2," and to my knowledge the question still hasn't been answered.
Of course, I know the answer to that question, but it doesn't help much. You can find lots of nice, friendly girls at any medium to large sized university that has a reasonably sized agriculture, business, or liberal arts department. The university I went to had all three, and I never appreciated how many women I met there that I would not have otherwise encountered in real life. The problem arises when you're not a student currently attending said university, or any university for that matter. Then you become that pervert who keeps hanging around trying to pick up coeds.
I've been to the supermarket three times since I've introduced myself to Checkout Girl, and I haven't run into her yet. She's pretty slippery; I used to know what hours she worked, but for some reason her hours keep changing around these days.
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