Tiebreaker.
I've opened this post to the public. Do not take advantage of this fact. I open it for the poll we have set up.
Okay, so we have the first team name. Screw Twilight With Sharp Rocks. Good times. Now, we need to pick the winner of the second team name, so it came down to two: Claws and Maws, and FML.
Interestingly, no matter which wins, Derange came up with all the winning names, only one of which I think she was truly serious about. :)
Poll Tiebreaker
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So. Jason and I have a friend we've recently made, a barista in a coffee stand not too far from our house. She's polite and classy, not one of the bikini baristas or anything like that, and she happens to have a problem: A stalker. A guy comes around a half hour before she opens the stand, then stays for another half hour to "chat." Then, a half hour before she closes up, the same guy is there, chatting her up. She's told us about it, and Jason has confirmed this by saying he's seen the guy repeatedly, even when he had to turn the car back around (a few miles down the road) to actually pay for the drink he'd just bought, and the guy was still there.
It makes her uncomfortable, but because she doesn't want to get the police involved, she doesn't know what to do. The reason she doesn't want the cops involved is, as a coffee stand barista, you're bound to get hit on, especially if you're cute (and she is). If she called the cops on one guy, and her regulars happened to see what went down, some would likely be scared off, and she would lose more than just the one customer.
I offered a solution: Have Jason pop by when this guy was around, and pretend to be her boyfriend. Complete with the absence of his wedding ring. Both of them seemed sort of nervous, he because he hasn't been with anyone but me for years, and she because she's afraid I'll get pissed off. How adorable. It was my idea to begin with. :) I mean, it isn't like Jason's going to jump into that cramped stand and ravish her right there. Hell, he probably won't even touch her at all! But, if he does, they have my blessing, because this problem needs to be dealt with.
I had offered to stop by as her lesbian lover, but I remembered an anecdote I was told before, of how when she tells people she is a lesbian, their advances only strengthen. So, scratch that.
I hope this helps her. She is truly a nice person, and even if a lot of it is professionalism, this other guy is clearly taking advantage and is becoming a problem for her.
Stupid? Maybe. But it's worth a shot.
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OH! I passed my Social Science Practical exam! I've now officially passed this term, even if I fail or run out of time on my last class. Woohoooo!
EDIT: Crap... add another David onto my list. David Franklin, specifically as Braca on Farscape, is another of my list of mental inmates. Hah. Never thought I'd go for the pawn character, but goddamn!
Okay, so we have the first team name. Screw Twilight With Sharp Rocks. Good times. Now, we need to pick the winner of the second team name, so it came down to two: Claws and Maws, and FML.
Interestingly, no matter which wins, Derange came up with all the winning names, only one of which I think she was truly serious about. :)
Poll Tiebreaker
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So. Jason and I have a friend we've recently made, a barista in a coffee stand not too far from our house. She's polite and classy, not one of the bikini baristas or anything like that, and she happens to have a problem: A stalker. A guy comes around a half hour before she opens the stand, then stays for another half hour to "chat." Then, a half hour before she closes up, the same guy is there, chatting her up. She's told us about it, and Jason has confirmed this by saying he's seen the guy repeatedly, even when he had to turn the car back around (a few miles down the road) to actually pay for the drink he'd just bought, and the guy was still there.
It makes her uncomfortable, but because she doesn't want to get the police involved, she doesn't know what to do. The reason she doesn't want the cops involved is, as a coffee stand barista, you're bound to get hit on, especially if you're cute (and she is). If she called the cops on one guy, and her regulars happened to see what went down, some would likely be scared off, and she would lose more than just the one customer.
I offered a solution: Have Jason pop by when this guy was around, and pretend to be her boyfriend. Complete with the absence of his wedding ring. Both of them seemed sort of nervous, he because he hasn't been with anyone but me for years, and she because she's afraid I'll get pissed off. How adorable. It was my idea to begin with. :) I mean, it isn't like Jason's going to jump into that cramped stand and ravish her right there. Hell, he probably won't even touch her at all! But, if he does, they have my blessing, because this problem needs to be dealt with.
I had offered to stop by as her lesbian lover, but I remembered an anecdote I was told before, of how when she tells people she is a lesbian, their advances only strengthen. So, scratch that.
I hope this helps her. She is truly a nice person, and even if a lot of it is professionalism, this other guy is clearly taking advantage and is becoming a problem for her.
Stupid? Maybe. But it's worth a shot.
...
OH! I passed my Social Science Practical exam! I've now officially passed this term, even if I fail or run out of time on my last class. Woohoooo!
EDIT: Crap... add another David onto my list. David Franklin, specifically as Braca on Farscape, is another of my list of mental inmates. Hah. Never thought I'd go for the pawn character, but goddamn!