{"id":4268,"date":"2010-12-09T02:26:06","date_gmt":"2010-12-09T07:26:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/4268\/smart-cute-quirky-ehhh-maybe-not-so-much-the-first-one\/"},"modified":"2010-12-09T02:26:06","modified_gmt":"2010-12-09T07:26:06","slug":"smart-cute-quirky-ehhh-maybe-not-so-much-the-first-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/4268\/smart-cute-quirky-ehhh-maybe-not-so-much-the-first-one\/","title":{"rendered":"Smart, Cute & Quirky. Ehhh, maybe not so much the first one."},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/span><\/span>\"\"<\/span><\/span>There is a FRIENDBURST QUIZ that
\nkind<\/span><\/span> <\/span><\/span> of <\/span><\/span> <\/span><\/span>goes with this blog. You should take it first.\u00a0 Click this link<\/a> to open in a new window. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s what I forgot!” she said,\u00a0 “The book I\u2019m reading!\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"I looked up from my pages of the sci-fi novel I\u2019m currently reading to look at the girl sitting across from me on the bus.\u00a0 I was in the midst of the long leg of my commute, a good 40 minutes on Hwy 99 from Edmonds to Everett.\u00a0 We were each sitting in those seats running parallel to the wheel wells of the bus, so we faced each other.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

She sparked my interest.\u00a0 Her clothes were\u2026 interesting.\u00a0 Unique.\u00a0 She wasn\u2019t trying to be flashy or trying to make some \u201clook at me, I\u2019m way out there!\u201d point. Classy, but different and not pretentious.\u00a0 In the 40 degree rainy winter weather, there wasn\u2019t any skin showing, but there was something about her appearance I found attractive. She was\u00a0 full in the thighs; not dainty but not fat.\u00a0 She wore heavy eyeliner around slitted, sparkling eyes.\u00a0 Her pearlescent nails clutched a Starbucks coffee.\u00a0 Hmm\u2026 and she read books!\u00a0 I wanted to talk to this girl! <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\n

\"\"\u201cOh really?\u00a0 What are you reading?\u201d I asked.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s called Candy Bomber.\u00a0 It\u2019s a book about the Berlin Airlift told from the point of view of the Berliners.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Oh wow. Cute.\u00a0 Literate.\u00a0 Interested in history.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cMy dad wanted me to read it.\u00a0 We were going to discuss it when we got together.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Now, this didn\u2019t occur to me at the time, but by the fact that she was already talking about her father, meant she\u2019s probably into older men.\u00a0 Please don\u2019t make me to be some MTRGesque predator out stalking 20-something females. I haven\u2019t been on a date in two freekin years! Okay?\u00a0 The holidays are a cold time to be alone.\u00a0\u00a0 I was more interested in the fact that she read than her age\u2026\u00a0 ANYWAYS<\/em>\u2026on with the story. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cBut he passed away,\u201d she continued, looking down at the floor of the bus.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Okay, nothing in my 3-page pamphlet of\u00a0 \u201chow to pick up girls\u201d <\/em>prepared me for responding to the death of a parent.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThis book meant a lot to him?\u201d\u00a0 seemed an appropriately empathic thing to continue the conversation with.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cYeah.\u00a0 He was really into history.\u00a0 Anything having to do with World War II particularly.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Was she thinking that the Berlin Air Lift was part of WWII?\u00a0 Hmm\u2026 I quickly found out she may have had an interest in history, but not a very good sense of it.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWhat was Kennedy\u2019s famous quote from then?\u201d another guy who was sitting over on her side of the bus broke in, \u201cIch bin ein Berliner?!\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cYeah, and didn\u2019t he also say, \u2018Mr Gorbachex (sic), tear down this wall!\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cUh\u2026 that was Reagan.\u201d the other guy said. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWorld War II fascinates me too,\u201d she continued, as if that was to his point.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

One of the three legs of the table of what I find most attractive in women had wobbled.\u00a0 Smart, cute and quirky. Nix the first one.\u00a0 I couldn\u2019t make out how all the conversation on that side of the bus was\u00a0 continuing over the din of the engine, but when I heard her next point, yeah\u2026 well\u2026<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"\u201cHitler was so misunderstood by history!\u00a0 He really did great things for his country.\u00a0 He united Germany.\u00a0 Fixed their economy and got them going again!\u201d she insisted.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cHe also killed six million Jews,\u201d the other guy said.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cYeah,\u201d I chimed in, \u201cthat\u2019s pretty bad.\u201d\u00a0 Not my most intellectual statement ever.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWell\u2026he was doing good for his country up until he started killing Jews!\u00a0 You have to understand him from the perspective of his time!\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI think killing six million people is horrible from the perspective of any time,\u201d the guy said, shaking his head.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cTen million,\u201d I interjected, \u201cHe also killed about 4 million dissidents, Poles, Russians, Gypsies and homosexuals.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

She tried to make some other points like comparing Hitler to Stalin, but they were half hearted.\u00a0 The position that that \u201cHitler was bad\u201d is pretty easy to maintain, no matter how cute and quirky the female countering it may be.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Eventually, the other guy got off the bus, so I now I had this strange young lady\u2019s full attention.\u00a0 We continued our conversation, and it turned out she wasn\u2019t some White supremacist or something equally nasty.\u00a0 She expressed sympathy for the hundreds of thousands killed in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.\u00a0 She noted naively about this \u201cthing\u201d that happened over the summer where \u201cthey were thinking about building this mosque near where 9\/11 happened.\u00a0 Not at Ground Zero, but nearby, and like, so many people were against it!\u201d<\/p>\n

The ignorance of our society and its opposition to that community center still bugs me, so we quickly found a lot of common ground on that topic.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Now, when people are trapped on the bus, they will talk to pretty much anyone.\u00a0 The real test of interest comes when you get off the bus, assuming it\u2019s at the same stop.\u00a0 She passed the test.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cSo,\u201d I asked, \u201cwhere are you off to next?\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cSeattle.\u201d she responded.\u00a0 Hrrmph.\u00a0 Darn.\u00a0 Seattle is far away.\u00a0 I didn\u2019t ask if she was heading home, because, well, anyone riding the bus at 10 PM and isn\u2019t heading home, probably doesn\u2019t live the kind of lifestyle that would be compatible with someone in recovery.\u00a0 Anyways, that was kind of the end of our encounter.\u00a0 She thanked me for a really interesting conversation and I rode away to hover by the station and play my ukulele.\u00a0 I had half an hour before my next bus came.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

I sat and played and watched as she wandered around the Everett transit center, as if she didn\u2019t know what bus to take to Seattle.\u00a0 She looked a little lost.\u00a0 I was sitting 50 feet away, playing my sweet ukulele.\u00a0 I wanted to see if she would come to me.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Yeah, well, it didn\u2019t happen.\u00a0 I don\u2019t want to date a Seattle girl who thinks Hitler wasn\u2019t such a bad guy anyways, no matter how cute & quirky.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The Holidays can be a cold time of the year to be alone.\u00a0 Fortunately, I have lots of practice.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

And Internet porn. <\/span><\/p>\n

How’d you do on the quiz?
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