h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Those of you who have read Douglas Copeland's "Generation X" will be familar with the concept of 'gripping strangers': that somebody in your life - and you don't even have to know them particuarly well - who can totally command you, who even if you've only chatted about once every four weeks for the past six years, if you came home and found a message on your answerphone from them: "Drop everything. Run away with me. I love you.", you'd do it without a second's thought. My gripping stranger works in a gift shop, but that isn't what she actually wants to do ( more shades of Douglas Copeland there ). She's actually an artist ( she would be, wouldn't she? ) and she designs jewlerlley. ( I know I've spelt that wrong, but I'm really not inclined to get the dictionary out at the moment ). She has long, long flowing tangled red hair, a great smile, and heavy-lidded eyes. The whole effect is something akin to a real-life version of Mrg from Disney's "Hercules". And, like a lot of gripping strangers, she has no idea that I have a crush on her. The only reason I'm telling you now is that I'm pretty sure that she wouldn't be scanning the pages of a internet site like this. I only see her a couple of times a year anyway. Last time, I learnt that she was no longer with her boyfriend ( oh? ), and that she'd found a new one ( oh. ). What about you guys? Any gripping strangers?