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The other day, I was at Borders purchasing a book about economics in baseball.\u00a0 I happened to be wearing a shirt that said \u201ci would rather be reading palahniuk<\/em>\u201d (thanks Katie), completely coincidental, and not because I was going to be going into a book store, and I wanted to assert my literary prowess to any other book nerds who may be glancing in my direction.<\/span><\/p>\n After an inconvenient delay, thanks to some black guy trying to swindle Borders with the \u201cthis book i recently purchased and have subsequently finished right away, i would like a full refund on it because i ripped out a bunch of pages to make it look like it was purchased damaged when it was really me all along<\/em>\u201d trick, but thankfully failing, I finally was able to check out.\u00a0 The cashier, older, corporations would classify as \u201cmature,\u201d took amusement in my shirt, and stated her approval for my choice in literature.\u00a0 The rotund younger cashier immediately took notice, and came to state her opinions as well, and before I knew it, I was engaged in a chance discussion about Chuck Palahniuk with the older cashier, with the younger one not wanting to feel left out, interjecting her remarks, inquiries about my choice of authors, and comments sporadically.<\/span><\/p>\n Now although I didn\u2019t believe her when she said the only Palahniuk novel she\u2019s read was\u00a0Fight Club<\/em>\u00a0(because\u00a0anyone<\/strong>\u00a0can watch the movie and say they\u2019ve read the book), the impression I got was that she was attracted to me.\u00a0 If I\u2019m correct in this assumption, I can easily say that it was most certainly not mutual, but it simply makes me wonder, that I think I have a tendency to attract women that I wouldn\u2019t be close to being capable of returning attraction, because I give off this air of attainability?<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n I mean, most chauvinistic guys have used such terminology themselves, like looking at a Britney Spears or a Lindsay Lohan, and lust after them, because \u201cthey seem attainable,\u201d but I guess what I\u2019m curious about is if I give off that sort of vibe to chicks I\u2019m not attracted to.\u00a0 I mean, I know I\u2019m single and have been fairly steadily over the last few years, but I\u2019m wondering if I\u2019m giving off some vibes of pathetic desperation or something, because I\u2019d really like to think that I\u2019m really not.\u00a0 If that seems to be the case, I guess I should be a little concerned, but I think I have valid reason for thinking such rubbish.<\/span><\/p>\n Like going out to lunch, or running errands, the only people who genuinely seem warmer, or give off that wavelength of possible attraction, are typically women that I\u2019m too superficially shallow to be remotely attracted back to them.\u00a0 Not to say that I\u2019m a complete strikeout to women that I do find attractive, but it\u2019s like I get the impression that if I were to entertain the thought and engage a deeper interaction with one of these lowered expectations, then I\u2019d probably have an easy day at the ballpark.<\/span><\/p>\n But\u00a0because<\/em> I\u2019m a shallow pig, such outcomes would likely never come to fruition, unless I were out of my mind, and\/or inebriated, or simply just plain desperate.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The other day, I was at Borders purchasing a book about economics in baseball.\u00a0 I happened to be wearing a shirt that said \u201ci would rather be reading palahniuk\u201d (thanks Katie), completely coincidental, and not because I was going to be going into a book store, and I wanted to assert my literary prowess to … Continue reading High-er 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