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> Re: Cute (was Re: Is Shyness/Social Phobia a Legal Disability ?)
> Author:   Jeanette Kelley
> Email: kelleyj@shell16.ba.best.com
> Date: 1999/01/10
> Forums: alt.support.shyness, ba.singles
> Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9901100046550.14848-100000@shell16.ba.best.com>

<<I apologize if I *offended* you by not looking at you the whole
evening.>>

So you're the person who came in late, with another guy, and I cleared
enough space for the two of you to sit on my right, and as you were
sitting down I said "hi", and you replied "hi" and immediately turned
away? (That's the person I was referring to. If you're the woman on my
left side who was already there when I arrived, no that's not who I was
referring to. Do I have the correct face for your name, or are we mixed
up about which woman is which? Help I need to know which of those two
women is Jeanette before I say more on this topic.)

> Author:   Sandy
> Email: sandy@blueneptune.com
> Date: 1999/01/10

<<That would most likely be me.>>

Great! Now there are two (2) women, each claiming to be that woman on
my right who seemed to shun me. From what you say about being shy, you
sound like the woman I'm talking about, but from what you say next:

<<I'm willing to make a friendly greeting/introduction, but if it's met
with stone-faced silence or some sort of growl,>>

it sounds more like you were the woman on the left. The one on the
right I was referring to definitely made no attempt to talk with me the
whole evening, whereas the one on the left did possibly try to talk
with me when I first arrived but so many people talked in a burst that
the only one I can remember is the 'Davis' fellow who guessed my name.

So, can somebody clarify which of Jeanette and Sandy was on my left
(and tried briefly in all the confusion when I first arrived) and which
was on my right (and seemed to shun me the whole half evening before I
moved to the other table)?

<<It seemed you had some sort of expectation about the boink that
wasn't being fulfilled>>

Only generally. I sort of expected there'd be a bunch of unusual
surprise things that might be interesting. Juggling penguin dolls isn't
exciting (compared to what I saw years ago where a guy juggled fruit
and took bites out of one piece while the other two were in the air,
eventually juggling only three apple cores that were left). Instead it
was like watching a college reunion of some college I didn't attend,
where everyone knows each other, and is catching up on each other's
recent past, except me.

<<LIVENUDEGIRLS?>>

No, if that had happened I would have been VERY surprised!!

<<More penguins?>>

I thought there were enough (1 giant, 3 small, and 3 tiny).

But along that line: When I patted the head of the giant penguin, if
some woman had told me she'd like me to pat her head too, that would
have been particularily nice. Not that I expected it at the time, but
right now as I sit here typing this followup and feel particularily
lonely and in need of affection, I suddenly came up with that idea and
out flew the idea into my fingers and thence into the keyboard.

<<Less gravy?>>

You mean the gravy that one of the penguins fell in? It doesn't matter
to me. I don't have to wash out that gravy before it rots and makes the
penguin smell like the dishes soaking in my sink.

So anyway, both of you (or at least one of you) tell me which name goes
when which side sitting next to me the first half of the evening, and
then I'll come back to your articles and followup appropriately to each
of you.