Seductive? Seduced? I once mentioned to my daughter that, in spite of all that is shown on television, I had never been propositioned in my life. She said that I would not have known even if I had been. I thought back and began to realise that on rare occasions I had been and, as she said, I hadn't realised. I recently went to have something done and saw the appropriate professional. I know that when the new professional looks very young it isn't her that looks young - its me that is looking old. The fact that I am still looking shows that I am not too desparately old. Like the man who chased the nurses around the ward and when he caught them he had forgotten why he was chasing them. Anyway, she did the professional bit and then started selling. She was quite good. She had a very nice figure, she was young, and she was quite pretty. She could have been my daughtet, but she wasn't. I didn't realise I was being sold to until she went a little bit too far and tried to sell just a little too hard. I said I would leave it for the moment and walked out. My question is, would you have walked out! What would most men have done in that situation?
My brother had that same thing where he was oblivious to when girls were showing an interest in him... he ended up asking my husband how to tell if a girl liked you and then within a couple of weeks he ended up meeting the girl who is now his wife! Noticing when someone is trying to get to you like that is probably a GOOD thing, as if you don't notice you COULD end up in trouble, either being like my brother with no clue as to potential dates and a future as a married man, or by not knowing someone was "after" you that way and things may go too far on their part either making you feel trapped (and possibly making a stupid last minute poorly thought out choice!) or embarrassing you when you finally realize what's going on, or worse yet someone ELSE notices before you do and it gets you in trouble! I think it's a good thing that you walked out on that situation. I've had guys go after me after I got married, and on the one hand it's nice to feel wanted or desireable or attractive, but it's also nice to feel secure and know those kinds of decisions have already been made the day you got married and you just have to follow through and back them up! I think a lot of GOOD men would have walked out, like you did, but a lot of guys my husband knows at work probably wouldn't have. I wish I could say MOST men would have walked out but I'm afraid most men might not. :(
I was thinking of dropping in and leaving her a message. She does know the cost of absolutely everything, but does she know the value of anything?
another one of those threads where there are looooong replies and i get bored of readin them so i write stupid replies like this one
can you stop with the metaphor of "selling" and stuff it's cramming my head in...(long week don't ask)
Okay, it's late and it must be time for me to stop posting as I am totally confused as to whether this woman was propositioning Philip or was just flirting with him trying to sell him something...Not very ethical either way but totally different applications...and it's a known statistic that attractive people make better salesmen/women because that is what sells the product especially to someone of the opposite sex... For example, my husband works as a truck driver and often has waitresses flirting with him because they hope he'll leave them a bigger tip after the meal...It's part of the service industry...it's when the guy thinks the girl is selling more than the pancakes that trouble arises.... I've known guys that have a woman be pleasant to them and become quickly convinced that she wants him when the poor girl was just being friendly in an innocent way. I worked for a month as a waitress when I first graduated from high school and was told by my boss to be friendly and smile at the customers but I found that most guys thought that entitled them to pinch my behind...thus me quitting the job at the first opportunity! Anyway, where was I...well, I must be getting old and confused because I've now forgotten where I was going with this! ...LOL.. I guess I'm just trying to say that some men are pigs and some women can be that way too! And that's why each of us have to make decisions that we can live with...namely, keeping promises that we have made to our spouses, etc. and not looking elsewhere for entertainment.
Perhaps I was not being propositioned at all. I could have mistaken everything. I suppose that happens all too often as well. Anyway it is question of preferring a small seller to a much larger supermarket. Apparently opticians in this country get a very poor payment from the national health service for carrying out a test on eyesight. They make up by selling glasses. There are now some big supermarkets which have set up to sell glasses and they also employ opticians. The other day a new local supermarket said that they would sell me one pair at 100, but two pairs (one reading, and the other medium range) at 130.00. I don't see how a 'small' seller can equal that.
No sir, I was just implying one had better make sure what they thought was , in fact was, so they didn't jump to the wrong conclusion and make a big thing out of nothing. Sometimes, It is very easy to misread a person and they might not realize that's how they were comming across. Sorry for the misunderstanding.
