I get asked out by my male clients with a decent frequency and they always insist I was flirting with them. No, I was being nice and friendly- that’s what sales type folks do, homie.
One person’s flirting is another person’s nice and friendly. Like Diosa, I try to be nice and friendly with people at work (or standing in line somewhere, or whatever). Some people will assume I’m flirting. Then if I stop acting friendly, people will think I’m a stuck up bitch. :rolleyes:.
Well, I take that back- yes, I can. By being nice and friendly, I make more money. So, you can keep thinking I want to ride your cock, old man- I need to pay my bills.
(Wow, I sound like a stripper. I assure everyone here: I’m not nearly pretty enough to be a stripper.)
Nope, no tip jar. At least not one Ive ever been made aware of.
Because she provides good service, other than being slow, and because she appears to be pretty popular at the store. If I offend her, I risk upsetting the rest of the people at the shop (most of who aren’t terrible, and most like me) who currently give me awesome service.
Given that the OP is a self-described misanthrope, I’m highly dubious of his ability to distinguish actual flirting from simple friendliness. Even supposing she is flirting, though, as long as she (or he, if we reverse the genders) is not being crude or inappropriate, where is the harm? Do we really need to be even more prickly and hypersensitive as a society than we already are? Fuck that.
I’m don’t think I’m a misanthrope, or at least I don’t feel like one. I discussed this in the other thread. I don’t start out disliking people, it just ends up that way – IMO a misanthrope starts out disliking people, and makes them work to overcome that.
Even if I am a misanthrope, and I suppose I may be, I would be able to tell this is flirting. In the same way a colorblind man can tell when the light is green, as long as he knows green is on bottom.
Except, you know, I’m decent at social interactions – I just don’t like them. I can tell when/if people are flirting with me, or when they’re being nice for their job. There is a noticeable difference, IMO.
Kroger (grocery store) just hired a teenager who creeps me out. He’s good looking enough to make life easy on him, I suppose, but he’s dumb and lazy and thinks that flirting is going to make up for the fact that he sucks at his job. Last time I went through his line, he gave me two free items:
Teen: (Holding up an item): What’s this?
Me: That would be a jalapeno.
Teen: (Paging through the produce codes) Nope, not there. (Throws it onto the conveyor while shooting me his best Tom Cruise grin.) I guess it’s free then!
Me: FYI, it starts with a “J” not an “H.”
He just keeps smiling because he has no idea what I mean. A few more items go by:
Teen: How many ears of corn do you have here? (He punches a number in)
Me: 6
Teen: Oops, I guessed 5! I guess you get one free then! Man, it’s your lucky day!
Then as he handed me my receipt, he WINKED at me like we shared some inside secret. :rolleyes:
Brrr! On Sunday morning I went in and he was the only cashier working the regular lanes. I had about 20 items but chose the UScan vs. dealing with him.
Take her out and make the date a dull one. This will have her lose interest in you but so long as you pull it off just right, she will provide only standard service at the store. If she still likes you despite the bad date, go out a few more times and have substandard sex. Skip the nightly masturbation session so when you do end up in bed with her, you have a proverbial loaded gun. The 10-second coitus session should make her lose interest in you.
If that still doesn’t work, maybe have her meet your friends or parents but coach them beforehand, letting them know that they gotta treat her like shit. If this still doesn’t work, just act disinterested in her hobbies and passions, hopes and dreams, etc. Occasionally slap her around while wearing a wife-beater and drinking cheap beer. Intentionally break her stuff after she moves in and don’t celebrate any of her birthdays or anniversaries. Eventually when you have kids, treat the kids terribly, neglect them, and so on. Then, one day when you’re in your death bed and she’s by your side, tell her you weren’t interested in her since decades ago when you and her met at the store she worked at.
Or you could avoid all that and just be straight up with her.
Or the OP can just straight out tell her to stop flirting with him next time. Which will be good for her, because she can go home and tell her friends on a message board how this old dude actually thought she was hitting on him because she smiled and was nice to him like she does with all of her clients. It’s the ciiiiiiircle of liiiiiiiife.