I left my grandmother's after about a week. It wasn't that I just couldn't stand her giving me a dose of communist anecdotes daily (well tbh I did get fed up with that), it was because I had to start work. Now for confidentiality reasons I can't actually talk too much about work, other than work is mostly boring and work is just work. I can, however, go into great detail about this guy who I work with who I think is really cute, and this other guy from work who annoyed me quite a bit, and invited me to go to the bathroom with him this other time.
So I show up to work, introduce myself to everyone and every single male in the room proceeds to ignore me while all the girls fawn over my cute accent. Sounds like your typical workplace, right. Well, I think girls are cute, so having the girls' attention felt pretty good overall. Then the girls became obsessed with the fact that I was fluent in English, and gave me their contact details so I could "teach them English". So for my audience out there who are interested in women- this is apparently how you get the chicks. Then the guy who eventually annoyed me came over, and I think he was trying to join the conversation but failed miserably, because the attention came back to me, and he just sorta sat in the corner making occasional remarks. I'm like 65% sure that he's jealous of the attention I'm receiving, or maybe he's just trying to be friendly I really wouldn't know.
Then over the next week or so, I'm still trying to get to know everyone but the girls from work have randomly become personal-space-invaders, and started asking me these really private and personal questions I didn't want to answer. Well, maybe for the girls they're neither private nor personal, but for me it was just something I was uncomfortable disclosing. So yeah there's that. However I was really terrible at turning them down and maintaining personal boundaries, because the girls would buy me food and whatever, and they'd sort of sit next to me and make conversation casually. Then the guy who I found annoying from before would just join in and start probing me the way the girls did, except he didn't have the cute-girl aura around him so I just ended up finding him really annoying.
Now that I think back, yeah he was just trying to be friendly with me. Actually one time when I had lunch with him he said "has anyone told you, you're really cute" and I was just busy stuffing food into my mouth going "yeah man I get that all the time". That was probably him flirting- and it just whoosh'd right over me. Then somehow all of this accumulated into the incident where he insisted I accompany him to the toilet, and I was understandably freaked out--- it's not like I wouldn't have used the toilet while he was there, but having an INVITATION to go to the toilet is a completely different matter. I knows girls do that kind of thing, but I didn't think he needed company or escort, and he wouldn't articulate why I needed to go with him. I was trying to figure out whether "go to the toilet" was an euphemism for "let's have sex" but I didn't think we knew each other that well and it was kind of... WEIRD.
Well here's all I have to say about the guy I found mildly annoying- actually that's a really mean label. If this was high school I'd think he had a crush on me. I actually have to go to work now, so I'll talk about how I basically stared at this one guy for ages on end and made creepy observations another time. Ta.
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