So much weird stuff happened this last week, I don't even know where to start.
At a new job site, second one in the month. They have a group of people learning the computer system to do the job, day one I'm sitting in the back, trying to avoid contact with anyone with whom it's not absolutely necessary. That utterly fails, as they have a "teambuilding" exercise where everybody has to get up and talk to a bunch of people in the room.
Though I do try not to interact with people, I do watch them. I want to see what people are like so that when I do have to talk to them I know what to expect. So, we're going around the ring, and when I get to this one woman she just starts acting weird. Weird look in her eye, throwing her head back and forth and side to side as she talks, body waggling in the strangest manner I've seen in a long time. I'm thinking to my self "did this chick just get done doing drugs in the bathroom?" I make a note to my self to keep an eye on her for the rest of the night, watching people on drugs at work can at times be an interesting distraction and I want to see where this goes, especially since it's the first day.
But I move on to the next person, and watching out of the corner of my eye I see all that has stopped. I assume, from past experience, that maybe she's just some red state ruralton, never been around anyone who's not white, and my not quite whiteness made her nervous or scared her. That's alright, it's happened before, and I won't have to deal with her much longer anyway.
I end up talking to another girl, funny, says interesting stuff, likes video games, general cuteness. The exercise continues until we get back on task and start learning about the computer system again.
The second day the computer I've been using shits the bed. So do all the others in the back row. I get up to look for a computer that works. I end up sitting next to the second girl. We talk more, she's still funny, still interesting, still pleasant to be around. Towards the end of the day she says she's hungry, I say we should go eat after work. She agrees. We get food, I take her home.
Third day, they say they've fixed the computers. They have not fixed the computers. I go back to the seat next to the second girl. That computer is also now not working. I move down one seat. The first girl comes in, sits down between me and the second girl, and now the computer is working. Well damn. First girl, sitting next to me starts acting weird again, but not so bad as last time. I think "alright, maybe I can put her at ease and she won't be jittering like a crankhead all night." I start talking to her, telling jokes, being friendly, hoping she will relax. Second girl does. not. dig. this. Gives me a weird look.
The second girl is really young, out of high school but a teenager. In spite of that I do think she's attractive, but I'm thinking she may be young enough not to have had enough experience with unfounded envy/jealousy to throw it aside. I don't want to be overt at work though, so I try to point out things that show why I wouldn't be interested in the first girl in a natural way. I point out her wedding ring. It's a genuine point of conversation because it is unusual, the band is some kind of clear material. This backfired on me. I don't think the first girl was afraid of me, because when I mention her wedding ring she takes it off, puts it in my hand and then starts leaning on me. What the fuck. The second girl really didn't like that. She also didn't seem to notice how chagrined I was at it. As the day goes on, the first girl's computer goes on the fritz again. Any time she needs to look at someone else's monitor she turns towards mine, every time she leans on me again.
