The Coffee Stalker
I wish I could say I was writing about my own stalker, you know... someone that makes life a little more interesting and maybe gets your heart pounding with fear wondering when they're going to turn up. But alas, I'm writing about someone ELSE's Coffee Stalker. All names will be withheld to protect the innocent and those refusing to take no for an answer.
Every morning a group of us make our pilgrimage to Tim Hortons. Typically there are 3 or 4 women and our token male co-worker. My one co-worker is a babe. She's pretty, she dresses nice, she has a figure that won't quit, men are routinely checking her out even when she seems oblivious to this. I mean HEY, we are all babes in the coffee brigade but let's just say some women are more babalicious than others. Enough said.
Every morning we all go down and stand in the horrendously long Timmy's line up and chit chat. Then we grab our double-doubles or large's with one sugar, or tea or bagel etc etc and head back to the office to officially start our day.
A couple months ago my co-worker caught the eye of another Tim Hortons lover. Now... you gotta give this man some brownie points. He came up to us one time asking where our co-worker was when she was on vacation. And of course we emailed our friend while she was on another continent to let her know of this occurance. When she came back this guy boldly announced himself to her and... bought her a coffee. One could wish this would have ended well, that she would have been smitten with him and they could have gotten married at the Tim Hortons where love perculated. But no. My co-worker was flattered but not interested.
Now guys... please.. if a women is truly interested in you, it won't be difficult to figure out. You'll have her number or email faster than you can say "I'm a stud". So, if you find you're having to ask multiple times, or go out of your way to get noticed there is a very, very high likelyhood that she is not interested.
This guy not only bought my co-worker a coffee once. He has shown up with coffee's for her using it as an excuse to ask her out. The biggest problem is that he gets the wrong coffee so she can't drink it anyhow and she continues to decline his offers of seeing him again. I mean, if you're going to be a coffee stalker its a good idea to know what coffee your object of obssession likes to drink. That may up your chances for success who knows.
My co-worker has done her best to let this man know she's not interested in him without coming right out and saying it. You know what guys, we actually don't want to hurt your feelings if we're not interested. We would prefer you would get the idea so you could retreat with your dignity intact. Most of us women have stories of slinking away when our object of luuuvv has not been so enamoured with us. (hmmm or is it just me?) However, this morning her coffee stalker showed up with coffees for all of us in the line up. Unfortunatley only one coffee was suitable for our coffee drinking palettes which was mine since I'll drink anything that's free.
We ended up pushing the coffees on the confused young guy ahead of us who really didn't know what to make with getting 3 free coffees. We even had to convince him that these single-singles could very easily be converted to double-doubles by asking the speedy Timmy's help to add some extra mojo. (mind you I should add that my Tim's counter person looked at me like I was a leper and a stupid one at that, when I asked her to add another cream and sugar to my freebie coffee.)
Now.. the issue is this: This man's eagerness is making my co-worker very uncomfortable. She now dreads to see him in the line up and it causes her angst. What was at first an awkward situation has morphed into something more. I'm sure this man doesn't mean anything by it and perhaps in his world not taking no for an answer is charming. But for many of us women today it forces us to feel like we have to act like bitches so that an eager dude will take the hint. Unfortunately she doesn't have his email address to get her point across that way. I don't think I'd want to have a face - to - face conversation with someone to say "Look, quit bothering me, I want nothing to do with you NOTHING! You understand me?!! (insert foot in groin here)".
As much as the rest of us are entertained by her situation I know I wouldn't want to be her when coffee stalker says hello. A free coffee just isn't worth it.
Every morning a group of us make our pilgrimage to Tim Hortons. Typically there are 3 or 4 women and our token male co-worker. My one co-worker is a babe. She's pretty, she dresses nice, she has a figure that won't quit, men are routinely checking her out even when she seems oblivious to this. I mean HEY, we are all babes in the coffee brigade but let's just say some women are more babalicious than others. Enough said.
Every morning we all go down and stand in the horrendously long Timmy's line up and chit chat. Then we grab our double-doubles or large's with one sugar, or tea or bagel etc etc and head back to the office to officially start our day.
A couple months ago my co-worker caught the eye of another Tim Hortons lover. Now... you gotta give this man some brownie points. He came up to us one time asking where our co-worker was when she was on vacation. And of course we emailed our friend while she was on another continent to let her know of this occurance. When she came back this guy boldly announced himself to her and... bought her a coffee. One could wish this would have ended well, that she would have been smitten with him and they could have gotten married at the Tim Hortons where love perculated. But no. My co-worker was flattered but not interested.
Now guys... please.. if a women is truly interested in you, it won't be difficult to figure out. You'll have her number or email faster than you can say "I'm a stud". So, if you find you're having to ask multiple times, or go out of your way to get noticed there is a very, very high likelyhood that she is not interested.
This guy not only bought my co-worker a coffee once. He has shown up with coffee's for her using it as an excuse to ask her out. The biggest problem is that he gets the wrong coffee so she can't drink it anyhow and she continues to decline his offers of seeing him again. I mean, if you're going to be a coffee stalker its a good idea to know what coffee your object of obssession likes to drink. That may up your chances for success who knows.
My co-worker has done her best to let this man know she's not interested in him without coming right out and saying it. You know what guys, we actually don't want to hurt your feelings if we're not interested. We would prefer you would get the idea so you could retreat with your dignity intact. Most of us women have stories of slinking away when our object of luuuvv has not been so enamoured with us. (hmmm or is it just me?) However, this morning her coffee stalker showed up with coffees for all of us in the line up. Unfortunatley only one coffee was suitable for our coffee drinking palettes which was mine since I'll drink anything that's free.
We ended up pushing the coffees on the confused young guy ahead of us who really didn't know what to make with getting 3 free coffees. We even had to convince him that these single-singles could very easily be converted to double-doubles by asking the speedy Timmy's help to add some extra mojo. (mind you I should add that my Tim's counter person looked at me like I was a leper and a stupid one at that, when I asked her to add another cream and sugar to my freebie coffee.)
Now.. the issue is this: This man's eagerness is making my co-worker very uncomfortable. She now dreads to see him in the line up and it causes her angst. What was at first an awkward situation has morphed into something more. I'm sure this man doesn't mean anything by it and perhaps in his world not taking no for an answer is charming. But for many of us women today it forces us to feel like we have to act like bitches so that an eager dude will take the hint. Unfortunately she doesn't have his email address to get her point across that way. I don't think I'd want to have a face - to - face conversation with someone to say "Look, quit bothering me, I want nothing to do with you NOTHING! You understand me?!! (insert foot in groin here)".
As much as the rest of us are entertained by her situation I know I wouldn't want to be her when coffee stalker says hello. A free coffee just isn't worth it.
posted by Lise B at Wednesday, May 31, 2006
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