Backdating fail + fic

[stripytights]

Okay, because I'm a moron, I um forgot to change the backdating of my smpc fic to something that isn't 'April 2011'. So yeah, if you'd like to read 5K of ridiculous J2 band AU (more Mindless Self Indulgence than Hawkwind), which has more sex than you can shake a dick stick at, then you can find it at 'What Goes On Tour'. (thanks for beta-ing it, pliny!) Feedback always welcome/appreciated.


Have an anecdote to make this post marginally less pointless. Someone asked me for my number today and I was so astounded that I merely looked at them. Not just because I was, quite frankly, grotty-looking; with the ever popular combination of a ragged hoody and bright green jeans teamed with grey suede heels (which I personally feel neatly demonstrates my lack of a sense of style), but because he asked for my number.

I mean, maybe this is just my experience colouring things but it doesn't happen where I live (and on polling a couple of friends they all agreed*). That's not how you meet people. You get drunk with them and awkwardly make a move. Or you talk for months and months and then one day you wake up and realise you've been married for fifteen years. Occasionally, in a shockingly daring mood, you might talk to a stranger and after an hour's conversation agree to go out (this is how my parents met) but that is the outlier. The only time swapping numbers as a preamble is done is when you're all gathered in a room for the express purpose of desperately seeking happiness.

So the poor man, having thrown off every social convention of pointless shyness ingrained in him by years of growing up in a society that says that having enough self-confidence to do this is the worst of all sins, on stretching out that reaching hand of connection got a completely blank face. Also I haven't actually replaced my mobile yet. I'm sorry, smart man in a suit, but it wouldn't have worked anyway - you've evolved beyond me.

*the only one who self-reported it happening is the most astoundingly gorgeous person I have ever met and thus gets people trying their luck an awful lot.

Comments

[tygrrlyli.livejournal.com]

Just a heads up that I friended you to follow any fic I might miss when you post your links elsewhere.

To add to the random thought/anecdote of the day:
if two identical twins meet and marry two other identical twins, the children born to each married pair would be siblings.

And, I have had someone ask me on a date. Not for my number, but on a date. I had to decline because I don't like people. I'm not sure he understood that it wasn't him I was rejecting, but his species.

[stripytights.livejournal.com]

Thanks for letting me know!

Hey, the modern world is a minefield of potential dating fails.

[miss-morland.livejournal.com]

You get drunk with them and awkwardly make a move. Or you talk for months and months and then one day you wake up and realise you've been married for fifteen years. Occasionally, in a shockingly daring mood, you might talk to a stranger and after an hour's conversation agree to go out (this is how my parents met) but that is the outlier.

Hahaha! Poor man, though.

[stripytights.livejournal.com]

I know! I felt so bad. I mean I rescued the situation somewhat I think, but still it was terrible. I just honestly did not expect someone to approach me when I was looking like something that had crawled out of a pit.

[miss-morland.livejournal.com]

Without having met you in person, I seriously find it hard to believe you'd ever look like something that had crawled out of a pit. <3