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When I was in college, I was pretty into a girl, but was too nervous to ask her out. I'm also famously oblivious.
A few months into this, she texts me saying she needs someone to peer review a paper, and wants me to come over to her place the next night around 10. She also specifically says her roommate will he out and she knows neither of us are seeing anyone, so we'll both be free to meet up.
So I go over there, and she comes out wearing yoga pants and a sports bra. I figure she's wanting to go to bed pretty soon.
She asks if I want a drink, and I ask for some water..She grabs it for me and sits next to me on the couch, and I lean in and.... ask for the paper.
She's like, "Oh, yeah." And she goes and prints it out and brings it to me.
It was pretty rough, and I peer-reviewed the shit out of it. I show her a bunch of mistakes and stuff, tell her she has some work to do, and leave.
I didn't realize how much of a seemingly-cruel dumbass I was for like a year.
I have been so depressed this week and you just made me laugh so hard and for so long my cat came into the room to check on me. I can totally relate to the obliviousness. I wouldn't recognize flirting if you wrote it on a sign and held it in front of my face
The funny thing is I'm generally excellent at reading people, except when it comes to romantic stuff involving me. Reading people is a huge part of my job, and I'm excellent at what I do.
What do you do?
I work in the development office of a very small municipality with very wealthy, powerful residents. My exact role and the nature of the city for which I work are both fairly unique, so I really don't like going into too much detail. I get Open Records requests from major publications regarding cases I work on fairly frequently, and I'd rather not have one of their web searches find my Lemmy account.