Crys: Sue, surely you can recognise the look. Besides, he gazes at me, then he smiles, this secret smile. You know the secret smile.
Sue : True, if a man looks at you like that and smiles, it means he likes you.
James : Or it means your dress is funny, or you have spinach in your teeth, or he’s thinking about the girl at the strip club last night…
Luckily for James, all the missiles in the room are stuffed with faux cotton, and they all head his way.
Sue : Did you ask him what he was thinking?
Crys : Duh
James : (smothered by cushions) And he said?
Crys : That he was thinking I’m beautiful.
James : smart man
Sue : He totally digs you.
James : Ladies, guys are not as complicated as you are. If a man likes you, he’ll tell you, and ask you out. If he doesn’t, he won’t. Sometimes a guy just flirts to flirt. It doesn’t have to lead anywhere, that’s why when you step up the flirts to more, he runs.
That silence again.
Crys : Why would a guy do that?
James : I dunno. Coz he’s a guy. It’s an ego boost to flirt well. And it’s good target practice.
Crys : Target practice? Do I look like a dartboard?
James : Yes.
Crys : Why you-
James : Si kwa ubaya. Look, a guy has to polish, so that when he finds a girl he likes, he has some back-up. You said it yourself, when a dude finds his Eve he goes ga-ga. The mind goes blank, the palms sweat, the tongue refuses. So it helps if he can call some lines from memory. (Sigh) Sadly when you really need those skills, they fail you.
Crys : So assuming you’re right, then if a man flirts with me, he doesn’t want me, but if he doesn’t flirt with me, then he likes me.
Sue : That’s ridiculous. That means half the men on earth want to marry me.
James : That’s another thing. You girls see an interesting dude and you’re on wedding bells mode. A guy dates a girl to date a girl. Period. Marriage comes later. So if you push the ring too soon, he runs.
Crys : Thrrr. Back to the point. So he got a call on his cell. And he was asked what he was doing.
James : Was he on speaker phone?
Crys : No
James : Then how do you know what he was asked?
Crys : Coz he said “I’m sitting at Tacos with this girl.” Then he was asked to describe me.
James : And you know this becauuuseeee…?
Crys : Because he looked right at me and said “She’s beautiful”
Sue : Aaaaaaawww, you have all the luck.
James : all the luck of fly in a WC
Crys : Well, James, nothing to say about that?
James : You wouldn’t believe me anyway, so why bother?
…still going on…
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