Tuesday, July 11, 2006

If a blogger falls in the forest, does anybody hear her?

I haven't posted on this thing in so long that I doubt I have any readers left. I suppose that makes this post more like a diary entry.

Dear Diary,
How have you been? I'm sorry I have not written lately...SERIOUSLY, this is how I used to start diary posts when I was little. I never had the attention span to write in a diary every single day, but I was wracked with guilt when I did actually sit down to write something. I felt like I was just using the diary, only to cast it aside once something more exciting came along. This offended my sense of fair play and substantial justice (yes, I just went there law kiddies), and I find myself wracked with similar guilt now as I write this blog entry.
None of this has anything to do with anything other than my obvious paranoia and guilt issues.

Here's what I really want to talk about...Train Station Stalkers. I am a commuter who rides the train Monday through Friday. I have been doing this for about a year now. In the last two months (and I can only attribute this to spring fever), I have been followed, talked to against my will and finally asked out by three men. The first was a quiet, mild-mannered guy with curly black hair and kind blue eyes. He started by telling me that this was his last day commuting on my train because his residency at the local hospital was finished. We exchanged a series of pleasantries about our commute, the city where I work and the weather. As we neared the point where our paths would diverge, he asked me if I'd like to have a drink with him sometime. I politely told him I had a boyfriend. He said we could just be friends and asked for my number. I gave him my work number and he never called. In hindsight, this was the perfect scenario. I was flattered, but never had to deal with the awkwardness of being friends with a guy who I knew wanted to date me. The second guy, who in his persistence has become known to all my friends as "Train Station Guy," took a more aggressive tack - one that I will detail in my next post.