home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Path: sparky!uunet!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!paladin.american.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!usc!cs.utexas.edu!ut-emx!ccwf.cc.utexas.edu
- From: llama@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (sine nomine)
- Newsgroups: alt.angst
- Subject: incredibly stupid shy people
- Message-ID: <86659@ut-emx.uucp>
- Date: 28 Jan 93 05:45:30 GMT
- Sender: news@ut-emx.uucp
- Lines: 34
-
-
- i am so goddamned fucking stupid.
-
- okay, if someone's just a friend and it's a no-pressure situation, i
- can babble on merrily for hours (like when i ran into my coworker o.g.
- on the bus last week and we talked for the whole trip and it was cool)
- without feeling self-conscious or stupid and it's fun, lots of fun.
-
- i can converse with ease with total strangers at a bus stop and be
- witty, charming, and funny. sometimes they even ask for my phone
- number.
-
- but if i stop at a 7-11 on the way to work to buy some cough drops and
- run into a guy from work i've been wanting to get to know for a while
- and he waves and says hi, i totally freeze, mumble something
- incoherent, and suddenly get fascinated by the book in my hand. and he
- ends up kinda limply waving again, like he's not sure what to do, and
- goes off to put gas in his car while i pay for my stuff and escape as
- quickly as possible.
-
- of course, if it weren't for the fact that every time i run into him
- at work i immediately shut down, mumble something incoherent, then
- ignore him entirely and bury myself in a book, he might not wonder if
- i'm a total flake.
-
- of course, i know what's behind it. i'm convinced that any guy, if he
- thought for an instant that i might be interested in getting to know
- him, would run screaming from the room in horror. so if i want to give
- myself a chance with this guy, it's essential that he think i'm
- utterly uninterested in him. god, so twistedly stupid.
-
- --
- sine | deb
- maybe i should just run away to guam and join a convent.
-