Today I saw a woman that I have been attracted to for nearly a year. Seeing her today reminded me of something funny I did in an attempt to try to meet her. I figure some of us have done things that we usually wouldn’t do to try to meet someone, so tell me about the goofy things you’ve done to try to meet someone you were attracted to. I’ll start with my recent story.
About a year ago, I saw this beautiful woman in one of my classes. I became instantly attracted to her. At the time I first saw her, my dad had just passed away and I was in the process of a difficult break up (when it rains it pours) so I was not very much open to meeting new people but she had definitely captured my attention.
Throughout the semester I kept seeing her in class but I never got the guts to say anything to her. The semester ended and I figured I would never see her again
January of this year, a new semester starts and I see that she is in my class. I thought to myself that maybe this time I would say something. Three months passed and I never said anything to her. Then one day this changed.
The war in Iraq had just started and our professor was talking about the protests. She raised her hand and told the professor that she was involved with SAW (Students Against War). I was against the war but I must admit that I was not very interested in doing anything about it but I saw this as an opportunity to talk to her.
At the end of class I told her that I was interested in SAW and what they were doing. I asked if she could give me more information. She asked for my phone number and she said she would call me with more information that evening. Later that evening she called me and told me about SAW and she also suggested that I should check out this other group called the ISO. I didn’t ask what the ISO was because I really just wanted to see her, so we agreed to meet at the ISO meeting.
Two days later I go to the ISO meeting and I wait for her to arrive. As I’m waiting, I notice that a majority of the guys there were wearing black Converses. I thought it interesting and I wondered if this was some sort of uniform thing. The meeting starts and she hasn’t shown up. I am slightly disappointed but I figured I would stay because I was curious to see what these guys were about, after all, I was already there. The meeting starts and the they hand out some literature and I finally found out what ISO stands for: the International Socialist Organization. At this point I felt like an idiot, here I was at a Socialist revival meeting for absolutely no reason. I was actually kind of scared to be there because these guys were very intense. They tried converting me but I politely declined and I tried to get out of there as soon as humanly possible. I should have asked what ISO stood for.
She later asked me how was the meeting and I told her that it was interesting, to say the least. Well, at least I learned that I should be more careful with initials.
