Lance Birch wrote:

> Woah, wait, what happened?  Clearly I've been away from this group for 
> too many weeks and missed something important...
> 
> Someone fill me in!

I've found a girl who seems extremely nice, but is also increadibly 
busy. If she's ever not busy for long enough, this may or may not become 
a beautiful relationship... And that's roughly as much as I know.

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Orchid XP v3 <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> I've found a girl who seems extremely nice, but is also increadibly 
> busy. If she's ever not busy for long enough, this may or may not become 
> a beautiful relationship...

  Do you really want a relationship with a person who is always busy and
constantly travelling?

  IIRC you hate travelling at an almost pathological level.

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> Orchid XP v3 wrote:
>> Anyway, she just phoned me, so at least now I finally know what her 
> 
> Woah, wait, what happened?  Clearly I've been away from this group for 
> too many weeks and missed something important...
> 
> Someone fill me in!
> 
> Lance.
> 
> thezone - thezone.firewave.com.au

Full story is on the "Virtual Insanity" thread, if you're interested.

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Warp wrote:
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>   IIRC you hate travelling at an almost pathological level.

For some reason that made me laugh out loud...

Lance.

thezone - thezone.firewave.com.au

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Nicolas Alvarez wrote:

>> Orchid XP v3 wrote:
>>> Anyway, she just phoned me, so at least now I finally know what her 
>>
>> Woah, wait, what happened?  Clearly I've been away from this group for 
>> too many weeks and missed something important...
>>
>> Someone fill me in!
>>
>> Lance.
>>
>> thezone - thezone.firewave.com.au
> 
> Full story is on the "Virtual Insanity" thread, if you're interested.

Hmm... that looks like a big thread.  It will have to wait until after I 
get some sleep I suppose (it's now 4:45 AM here)... hmm!

Lance.

thezone - thezone.firewave.com.au

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Orchid XP v3 wrote:
> Lance Birch wrote:
> 
>> Woah, wait, what happened?  Clearly I've been away from this group for 
>> too many weeks and missed something important...
>>
>> Someone fill me in!
> 
> I've found a girl who seems extremely nice, but is also increadibly 
> busy. If she's ever not busy for long enough, this may or may not become 
> a beautiful relationship... And that's roughly as much as I know.

Hmm, well... good luck.  I have a girl story too, actually, but it kind of 
didn't end well.

But for now, need sleep!  *wanders off in the darkness and flops into bed*

Keep us posted... (as if I have to ask)

Lance.

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"Lance Birch" wrote:
> Orchid XP v3 wrote:
>> I've found a girl who seems extremely nice, but is also increadibly busy. 
>> If she's ever not busy for long enough, this may or may not become a 
>> beautiful relationship... And that's roughly as much as I know.
>
> Hmm, well... good luck.  I have a girl story too, actually, but it kind of 
> didn't end well.

Do post, if you feel like sharing. The bad ending ones are the ones people 
actually care to read anyway.

It might be different in Andrews case - when he some day finally have a good 
ended story about a girl to tell, there will probably be a reaction, but 
only because "Andrew's missing love" has become a soap here, so the climatic 
ending is highly anticipated. A conflict is a good story, resoluted in the 
end or not, but a good ending without a prior established conflict is not...

Rune

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Rune wrote:
> "Lance Birch" wrote:
>> Orchid XP v3 wrote:
>>> I've found a girl who seems extremely nice, but is also increadibly busy. 
>>> If she's ever not busy for long enough, this may or may not become a 
>>> beautiful relationship... And that's roughly as much as I know.
>> Hmm, well... good luck.  I have a girl story too, actually, but it kind of 
>> didn't end well.
> 
> Do post, if you feel like sharing. The bad ending ones are the ones people 
> actually care to read anyway.
> 
> It might be different in Andrews case - when he some day finally have a good 
> ended story about a girl to tell, there will probably be a reaction, but 
> only because "Andrew's missing love" has become a soap here, so the climatic 
> ending is highly anticipated. A conflict is a good story, resoluted in the 
> end or not, but a good ending without a prior established conflict is not...

Hmm... that's a good observation.

Well, for me... I won't post the whole story, but a quick summary is that 
a girl asked me out (yes you did read that correctly, a girl... asked... 
*me*... out!  Me!  Asked me out!%$@).  Don't get too excited though, 
because things ended in disappointment for everyone.

Some back story:  When I occasionally head out of town for the weekend to 

lunch.  It's kind of like a tradition now - the food there is great, and 
we've gotten to know the owner quite well (as not only have we now been 
going there for years, but coincidentally we used to visit another 
business that they ran many years ago as well).  So, we're treated like 
family there and know the staff well.

A few months ago the owner, while we were talking about the fact that my 
brother and I don't have girlfriends, joked to me that one of the staff 
there (the girl in question) had said that I was "kind of cute".  It was a 
passing comment and I didn't really think much more of it.

Time went by and, unbeknownst to me, this girl had apparently been 
considering asking me out for quite some time (!) and it had become a 
running inside-joke with the staff there every time we visited.  They had 
been joking with her and encouraging her to ask me out, and she had been 
becoming increasing more nervous about doing so.  Last weekend the plot 
thickened considerably.  Apparently the previous time we'd been there 
(several weeks earlier), she had seen us come in from their second nearby 


serve us so that she could ask me out :o  But it wasn't to be, because the 
owner had started serving us already, so that was the end of that.  Until 
last weekend, when we visited again, and this time she was there.

We ordered as usual and went and found a table, and when our coffees were 
delivered the guy made a particular point of my coffee saying "and this 
coffee is especially for you".  I didn't really know what he was talking 
about until I decided to take a sip and upon lifting up the cup found a 
tiny envelope under it on the saucer.  You can see where this is going... 
heh.  I opened it up, being watched closely now by my family (and, they 
later told me, all of the staff) and sure enough it was a note from her 
asking me out, with her phone number!

I nearly fell off my chair.

Now I'm going to cut to the chase;  she's pretty (although not really my 
type - but she likes me so who cares), she's bubbly and enthusiastic, 
she's my age... but...

I'm in a very strange point in my life right now, and a relationship would 
be an irresponsible thing to enter into, for her and for me, and this is 
what I ended up telling her.

Disappointed at how this story is going now?  And that's how I'm sure she 
felt, after picking up the courage to ask someone out like that, and for 
how long she's had this crush.  And it's how my family felt too, because 
they'd instantly become wrapped up in the excitement of the moment as 
well.  I'm sure the other staff, after hearing how things turned out, felt 
disappointed for her as well.  And it's how I felt, because the most 
painful feeling is knowing that you've let everyone down.  In fact it's a 
horrible, unimaginably bad feeling, one that hollows you out and leaves 
you feeling like a fool.

So... that's the story so far.  It's going to be interesting next time we 
go there... interesting, and uncomfortable.  The reasons for not wanting a 
relationship right now are complex (but they are very good reasons; ones 
not arrived at by accident or impulse), and I don't really want to go into 
them here, but that's how it is :/  I explained them to my family and to 
her though, which was a difficult thing for me to do, but necessary.  I 
think everyone understood then, but things are now very strange.

.. I don't know how to finish this post, because I suppose the saga isn't 
really over yet!  But there you have it, that's my story.

Lance.

thezone - thezone.firewave.com.au

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Lance Birch wrote:

> We ordered as usual and went and found a table, and when our coffees 
> were delivered the guy made a particular point of my coffee saying "and 
> this coffee is especially for you".  I didn't really know what he was 
> talking about until I decided to take a sip and upon lifting up the cup 
> found a tiny envelope under it on the saucer.  You can see where this is 
> going... heh.  I opened it up, being watched closely now by my family 
> (and, they later told me, all of the staff) and sure enough it was a 
> note from her asking me out, with her phone number!
> 
> I nearly fell off my chair.

Hahahahah!

0WNERSHIP!

Man, that's just far out...

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"Orchid XP v3" <voi### [at] devnull> wrote in message 
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So, where are you up to with your girl? Is she back yet? Did you text her 
saying that you would like to take her out for a nice meal on her return?


    ~Steve~





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