Being the geek that I am, no one ever expects me to *cough* flirt (or to flirt WELL) with guys. In fact, they only expect me to be uber-impervious to population XY, having crushes or so. Well, sad to say, I *am* pretty impervious to crushes in the sense that I don’t fall in love or something the minute I see someone fit (i.e. Zac Efron – sorry, girls) and that I personally don’t take it as my “duty” to flirt with every guy that comes my way.

…at least, I have a rule: Don’t “flirt” with people I don’t know. xD

I think it really depends on what you classify as the dirty deed – some people do it with coy stares, the kind of stuff you see on the silver screen and all. On the other hand, pre-teens (they grow up SO fast) I’ve spoken to will say that flirting is when a guy gives a girl excessive compliments – yes, I’m quoting verbatim(!)

Moi? Well, I usually don’t tend to do the (dreaded) deed with people I don’t know. To me, flirting’s just exchanging very playful and fun banter with good mates – it *may* border on slightly suggestive stuffo (only with the close ones), but it rarely does happen. As for new people that I meet, I’m just usually friendly around them. There’s no need to start getting “flirty” until you know them better, IMO. And physical flirting? Overrated…(for now at least.)

So it came as a surprise to my friends and I when I ventured out of my comfort zone yesterday. Let me bring you up to speed:

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Now our boarding house has a custom where we rent DVDs from Blockbusters every weekend for our movie nights – and usually they’re picked up by any boarder in the house who happens to be going down to town and won’t mind picking the DVDs up. So a few weeks ago I went down with Sidi to pick a selection of 4 DVDs – if I’m not wrong, He’s Just Not That Into You and Bride Wars were in there. So once we were done picking, I brought them to the counter whilst Sids went to have a look at the clearance CDs.

In the meantime, however, I just beamed at the attendant behind the counter and politely wished him a good afternoon. Whilst he went to get the actual discs to place inside the dummy boxes (anyone who’s been to Blockbusters or rented DVDs will get my drift), I noticed that him and the other attendant were in some weird clothing get-up: red and white football kit, complete with shorts, knee-high white socks and all that jazz.

Thinking that the outlet must’ve been supporting Manchester United at some football match, I just happened to quip – “Is there some big game going on today?” Result: I got a wink and a smile, with him explaining how Blockbusters were running a charity drive (I think it was for Child’s Play or something…and that the odd clothing was part of the publicity for it. “Care to donate?” he asked me.

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