jamesq | Unexpected Flirting.

The less said about the drive from Kamloops to Vancouver the better. I do have one thing to say though. To the cop who pulled the guy over for speeding on highway 1 just outside Langley: Ticketing one guy for doing 150kph is all well and good, but did you have to block half the lanes so that 1000+ other vehicles had to drop their speed down to 30 while backing up traffic over 50 km back? That strikes me as penny-wise and pound-foolish.

Got into UBC and got my tiny little room with the shitty mattress. I may have to hit a thrift store and grab a quilt to lay on. Hmm - there's one about two blocks from the comic shop.

I was pretty wasted on Sunday night so I didn't really do anything other then wander and grab some supper. Monday I went window shopping, which lead me to a wonderful encounter at the Love Nest

I walk into the store and drop my bag off at the counter (as instructed by the sign) and start browsing around. Note that at the time I was wearing a t-shirt that featured a description of the Necronomicon on the back and a large bloody shotgun hole on the front. It's not quite up there with the Cannibal Corpse Nun shirt, but I'm sure I raised more then a few eyebrows wearing it.

"That's a, um, very interesting shirt," said the saleswoman.
"Are you familiar with the Evil Dead/Army of Darkness movies?"
"Sure, I love those movies."
"It's from Evil Dead the Musical."
Her eyes lit up and she exclaimed "There's a musical?!"

It turns out she has a degree in music and her dissertation was in humorous/campy musical theatre. We ended up chatting about assorted musicals we'd seen over the years for about twenty minutes. The store was dead BTW. Eventually we returned to the business at hand.

"So, what can I corrupt you with today?" she asked. Incidentally the best sex shop sales-patter I've ever heard.
"Oh well I'm looking for [something completely wholesome and don't worry about that man behind the curtain. Really].

We went into a fairly extensive discussion of wants/needs and the available technology before she settled on showing me one product in particular. Then she described how she and her boyfriend used it. Hott.

Let's recap:

She was cute. I hadn't actually mentioned that yet, but it's true.
She's a theatre geek.
She works in an upscale sex shop.
I was sufficiently at ease with her to be friendly and flirty, rather then nervous and droid-like.
She's not single. :(

Oh well, nobodies perfect.

I'd have been perfectly willing to ask this girl out for after-work drinks if it weren't for the fact that she was in a relationship. Something I'd be far too nervous to do in Calgary for no really good reason.

Incidentally, I love Vancouver because it allows me to be the charming bon vivant I wish I was, rather then the boring asocial nerd I am.

After that little adventure, I met up with

bognaustroglum,

hadriel and K. We wandered around Metrotown Mall for awhile, then went to see movies. They saw Up. I saw Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen. I think that watching Up a second time would have been more entertaining. Transformers 2 did have lots of pretty explosions and Megan Fox being all cheesecakey, so it's not like my time was wasted.