I attended the Cleveland Indians game last night with my father. We picked up some food and went to the park to eat it, arriving shortly before the gates opened. Jacob's Field has a picnic plaza just beyond its center field wall, so we ate while we watched the visiting team (Seattle Mariners) batting practice. Shortly after we got there, in came this quite attractive (well, except the excessive eye shadow) woman. Tanned/Italian dark skin. Shirt tied of in the back to show her stomach. Long dark hair.
Now, I would consider it presumptuous, forward and bordering on rude to say anything (plus who's going to try to pick up a woman in front of their own father?). She wasn't there 5 minutes when a guy roughly 50 feet away yelled "How old are you?" Once she figured out it was directed at her, she responded that she was 22 and asked if that was alright. I believe his response was "Perfect." or something to that effect.
Later, after her friend had showed up, I heard her talking about "hooking up" after the game with this guy and his friends, then the friend said they shouldn't commit to anything.
I don't know how to describe what I felt.
Part of it was that the question "Its that easy?" ran through my head.
Another was that a woman would show so little respect for themselves that they would consider meet up with a complete stranger like that.
Maybe I'm living in a fantasy world, but I don't think it should be like that. I know I couldn't do it that way. I think I've said it here before, but there is more than a handful of women who visit the library work that I would love to get to know better (some of them I already know better than they would think, thanks to my very strong powers of observation), but I, as I mentioned above, would not dare be that presumptuous in saying something to them, especially at the library. Maybe, MAYBE if I saw them on the street...
I have to face facts.
My grandmother is right.
Its going to take a woman asking ME out for anything to start.