Here’s a trait of humanity that I really don’t get, window shopping. I don’t mean going to the mall,  looking in the store windows but never entering to buy something. I’m talking about the inexplicable need for married people to window shop, look but don’t touch but make it obvious you’re looking.

I appreciate a good looking fella as much as the next person (that’s why I married one) what I don’t get is why do some married people feel the need to make it obvious that they find someone else attractive.

There is a guy who works in the same building that I do and every time he breezes through the atrium he feels the need to go out of his way just to stop and chat with me. There’s also a woman  female who finds me “attractive”but I won’t get into that one. My initial reaction was “well this could be fun” because with an attraction comes power.

This unseen power became obvious to me in my youth when I discovered that I could make a boy do something outside of his normal character so he could impress me. I do not find that the least bit attractive, never have, never will. I have a deep dislike for weak minded people who can be persuaded to do things they wouldn’t ordinarily do for the sake of impressing someone else.

I first noticed this fella’s attraction to me when he would do stuff for me like fix a drawer or rearrange a large cooling fridge. My boss had asked him to do the same exact things and he told her he would get to it as soon as he could, “probably be a week or two though”. Yet when I asked him who I should talk to about getting these things done he would go get his tools, return and fix whatever needed to be fixed, right away.

When I asked him what that was all about he replied, “I really like you”. Umm, helloo, I’m married, have been happily so for 23 years and so are you. To which he replied, “what’s wrong with looking at the menu, I’m not ordering anything, just admiring the dessert”. EEE YYY UU KKKK!!!

Call me a prude but I think this crosses the line of respect. Respect for my marriage, respect for my husband and not the least respect for the fella’s marriage vows and wife.

Sadly I liked it a lot better when he would just hang around the outskirts of our shop and watch me. Creepier, but ignorance was a bliss.

“Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking.” –H. Jackson Brown Jr.–