Saturday, October 27, 2001
|12:32 AM|
Cecil blows his damned line
I had just stepped out of Vorpal's apartment, and I was burdened by a large grocery bag of trash. At the bottom of the stairs was an attractive redheaded woman my age. She was dressed in a stylish leather jacket through which she was hunting for her keys. I realized that I should check for my keys as well before getting too far from Vorpal's place. I had to use my right hand to get them from my left pocket, so it was neither slick nor fast. When I finally fished them out the woman was looking up at me. She said hello and I answered as politely as possible, and walked down the stairs. She was walking around them towards home, so as I passed above her and to the side she looked toward me. I thought she looked a bit uncomfortable but before I could realize that she did not, I had already uttered the dumbest line imaginable to make her feel at ease. If scientists studied in conjuction with poets and philosophers for many decades, there is the slim possibility that they could develop a worse line to use to continue the conversation. I now give you, my line:
"I promise I won't bite"
Yeah. I know. She responded "Oh, I didn't think you would" followed by "Have a good evening" then she entered her apartment. I responded properly to the good evening statment, but the foul echo of my biffed line still hung in the air. I spent a good couple of minutes (after disposing of the trash) mentally kicking my own ass. And here is my entry about it.
I am such a dumb ass. Perhaps I will have another shot at her. Perhaps I will not use a string of sounds that is likely the incantation of some demonic spirit that thirsts for human eyes. Surely, somewhere in the ozone layer the residual soundwaves of my line are eating a hole in the protective layer of our planet.
Drag.
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///Say this is the swap from 2001 to 2002, that should close up the 2001 links.
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