new pattern of flirting

i promised myself that i would blog about this, if and only if it happened to me for the 10th time. so everybody, feel lucky because it happened today, and the counting completed to 10. and because i promised myself that i would blog about it, here it is -- a blog, dedicated to the new pattern of flirting (at the risk of embarrassing myself).

since i started working, i happen to meet a lot of ppl; from all walks of life. some i can relate too, some i can hardly recommend anything that they would like. since working with my family means most of the time i would be at the shop, most of the customers i meet are woman because they are our major targeted end-user, but our real niche market are MEN.

some are genuine buyer, but i have met 10 that used the new pattern of flirting. yes, move over old fashion flirting ('hello, hi, can i have your number'). now we have something more appealing.

lelaki nowdays (not generally, at least the ten men that tried it at my shop) have a new tactics, subtle, yet it answers all my theory of STATISTIC. (see ren, this is what i mean by statistic).

how they operate:
jalan2 dalam kedai complimenting products that we have, sending friendly gestures, warm laugh, long eye contact (1 Mississippi, 2 Mississippi, 3 Mississippi, 4 Mississipi), asking question that have obvious answers and the blah blah blah that easily be summed as flirting. then sebagai finishing touch (the orthodox men would ask for number ka, single ka apa ka) they would say 'ok nanti i bawa my orang rumah untuk tgk2 sini'.

hah?? apa la tu?? i wasn't comfortable with the flirting in the first place, but was later insulted with such remark. apa kau nampak aku pun tertarik sama ko punya flirting tu? until u have to say that statement to repel me away from u?

then it all got connected in my brain (that have nothing better to think about) that it's all about the statistic. if Alice of L-word have The Chart, then i have The Statistic. it's all out in the open. why would a guy want to come into the shop, telling all his glory of his taste in fashion and how he's also eyeing what i think is beautiful, how he pose in all his expensive things, hinting how much money he have and hinting how important the project he's having (thus the need of mencari batik which led him to the shop), but in the end topping it off with a statement saying he's MARRIED? even if i were interested, that would definitely pull me away (one way or another?)

but according to my statistic, women are outnumbering the guys. there won't be many guys practicing monogamy anymore (men of my time), that's in my humble opinion. these 10 guys that did flirt and also told me that they are married are the kind of guys who thinks that being married is another quality marked as 'desirable'.

ntah lah. figure that out. maybe it's just me. but these 10 guys proved my theory right.