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patita_fea

Thoughtses

Dec 10, 2009 14:46

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dawnintheforest December 10 2009, 20:59:00 UTC

That's a interesting story. A little skeevy feeling, though. I'm glad this Jody character ended up being relatively harmless. Minus perhaps the awkward factor of him awkwardly flirting.

patita_fea December 10 2009, 23:27:21 UTC

It was a little skeevy and awkward, for true. But it was an interesting way to spend half an hour of my morning.

kimmer1227 December 10 2009, 21:10:34 UTC

I'm all for trusting your spidey senses. They didn't tingle, so you got the safe vibe. Poultry type critters have awesome spidey senses. Plus, it's not like you agreed to go to his apartment for coffee. You didn't DID YOU!!!!

If you must repeat this tendency towards kindness, never take your eyes off your beverage. In fact, leave it in your lap and off the table. That way he can't slip you any poultry knock-out drugs.

You probably made the guy's day, even though you turned him down. It's all good, Duckster. You're a kind soul. Don't ever change. Just be smart.

patita_fea December 10 2009, 23:30:27 UTC

You didn't DID YOU!!!!
I am smarter than that. A restaurant one door over on busy St. Charles Avenue seemed to me like it had a reassuring number of available witnesses, you know?

And yeah, I'm careful to watch my drinks. A very memorable incident at the sorority I briefly belonged to has cemented that habit. :/

leighleighla December 10 2009, 21:20:47 UTC

Very brave of you.

I'm far far too paranoid to ever do anything like that, despite having a mean right hook.

patita_fea December 10 2009, 23:31:32 UTC

I have no mean right hook, but I'd really like to learn one.

This is one of those things I must ask Big Paratrooper Cousin about when he comes in for Christmas.

tahirire December 10 2009, 21:23:17 UTC

There's always this liiiiiiiiitle part of a person that thinks of that movie - you know, THAT MOVIE, with the old lonely guy that turns out to be experiencing *insert tragedy here*, and was on his way to JUMP OFF A BRIDGE until the chick said yes, she'd have coffee with him, and she inadvertently saves his life, and it turns out he's a rather wealthy investment banker and he finds her at the craphole where she works and pays off her mortgage just for being a nice human being.

You know?

patita_fea December 10 2009, 23:33:27 UTC

*snerk*

I'm actually not familiar with that movie. I mean, I saw "Pay It Forward" and all, but... Heh.

No, I really wasn't thinking in terms of "Let's be nice to this guy." It was more like, "Huh. Interesting. Sure, why not see what the hell is up with this."

*is more curious than nice*

kimmer1227 December 10 2009, 23:38:17 UTC

*is more curious than nice*

Ahhh. So what you really wanted to do was dissect his brain. That's more like it! *fist bumps*

patita_fea December 11 2009, 19:18:46 UTC

I had this vague idea that a fifty-something mechanic who spent his time in a diner like that would at least have some good stories.

I am mercenary in pursuit of anecdotes, characters, and idiosyncrasies to steal for my fiction. *has no shame*

erinrua December 11 2009, 04:32:42 UTC

Way, WAY skeevy! But ... he was probably a nice enough guy, just ... don't do it twice, okay, Duckie? Or I'll have to come over there and kick him in the nuts, because I'm old enough now to override my Terminally Nice setting. ;-)

But thus far, you've done good, and hopefully that ends that. Just ... next time, just say no. *SMISH* :-)

patita_fea December 11 2009, 19:20:43 UTC

No plans to do it again, promise. Hee.

And hey, if I'd said no, then I wouldn't have heard his story about how they used to treat horses with breathing problems by "smoking" them. Medical marijuana for ponies. Got the stable hands higher than the horses, he said.

erinrua December 11 2009, 19:26:58 UTC

o__O

Dude. That is so rare and bizarre as to be worth the skeevy coffee date! LOL, a barn full of stoned hands and happy horses - priceless. *g*