I'm kind of glad a website like The Escapist exists, especially the forums. It's like if you could take Yahoo Answers, filter the more stupid answers out, and allow the OP to reply to a post. I've used the forums quite often, to ask for lots of stuff like advice or to hear a perspective of another person. I know that sounds silly, but it helps me, and that's all I'm saying. On to the thread.
I work part-time in an amusement park, I park the cars and clean the parking. It's a huge space, obviously, so it needs more than one person. We always start out at 08.30 with six to seven people and every couple of hours there are less and less of my colleagues, because the visitors usually come in a huge wave at about 10.00 to 10.30. My boss sends people away in order of how long we work there. That means if Person X has worked there for 5 months and Person Y has worked here for 7 months, Person X will be send away first. Starting next week, this will be my third month working there.
A female colleague of mine has been working there for about four years, I think. Always in the vacation, when school is out. She actually needs to have her thesis done. We get along really well, I make her laugh a lot, we agree on lots of subjects and don't make a fight when we don't agree. If she had five minutes she would spend ten minutes talking to me. She despises the concept of it not being possible these days to just have a male friend, if you know what I mean. As in, just friends. And that's completely FINE by me.
Every now and again, when we happen to have the same schedule (which she every now and again manipulates so that we fall into the same shift) she always drives me home, still talking all the way. There is no hand holding involved, no melodramatic conversations going on, nothing. Yesterday was planned in such a way so that we were scheduled to leave at noon. She would, for the last time, drive me home. It's the last time because she needs to finish her thesis and hopefully succeed in her studies. It's noon and suddenly my boss calls us up with the message that I needed to stay at least two hours longer. Her shift was over. She had to go.
She waited two hours and fifteen minutes for me until my shift was over. I both felt bad and immensly happy. She wanted to wait, for as long as it took. She didn't mind waiting, at all. I noticed that, instead of driving straight home she took a huge detour so that it would take almost twice as long to get home.
I have honestly never known such kindness before and I don't know what to do with it. The pessimist in me who's more right than wrong says she probably didn't need the two hours extra to work on her thesis, she'd probably been doing something else instead of working on it.
I got her number (a number that works), and she sawed my ears off of my head for me to make a Facebook account. I make it a personal policy never to be on a social network, but to my dad I should drop that.
So, what should I do? Obviously I like her company, but rocket science is easier to me than human interaction and how to approach it.
I work part-time in an amusement park, I park the cars and clean the parking. It's a huge space, obviously, so it needs more than one person. We always start out at 08.30 with six to seven people and every couple of hours there are less and less of my colleagues, because the visitors usually come in a huge wave at about 10.00 to 10.30. My boss sends people away in order of how long we work there. That means if Person X has worked there for 5 months and Person Y has worked here for 7 months, Person X will be send away first. Starting next week, this will be my third month working there.
A female colleague of mine has been working there for about four years, I think. Always in the vacation, when school is out. She actually needs to have her thesis done. We get along really well, I make her laugh a lot, we agree on lots of subjects and don't make a fight when we don't agree. If she had five minutes she would spend ten minutes talking to me. She despises the concept of it not being possible these days to just have a male friend, if you know what I mean. As in, just friends. And that's completely FINE by me.
Every now and again, when we happen to have the same schedule (which she every now and again manipulates so that we fall into the same shift) she always drives me home, still talking all the way. There is no hand holding involved, no melodramatic conversations going on, nothing. Yesterday was planned in such a way so that we were scheduled to leave at noon. She would, for the last time, drive me home. It's the last time because she needs to finish her thesis and hopefully succeed in her studies. It's noon and suddenly my boss calls us up with the message that I needed to stay at least two hours longer. Her shift was over. She had to go.
She waited two hours and fifteen minutes for me until my shift was over. I both felt bad and immensly happy. She wanted to wait, for as long as it took. She didn't mind waiting, at all. I noticed that, instead of driving straight home she took a huge detour so that it would take almost twice as long to get home.
I have honestly never known such kindness before and I don't know what to do with it. The pessimist in me who's more right than wrong says she probably didn't need the two hours extra to work on her thesis, she'd probably been doing something else instead of working on it.
I got her number (a number that works), and she sawed my ears off of my head for me to make a Facebook account. I make it a personal policy never to be on a social network, but to my dad I should drop that.
So, what should I do? Obviously I like her company, but rocket science is easier to me than human interaction and how to approach it.
It's not easy though, I know that, you seem to be in a place where i was, EVERYONE knows the girl is into you, BUT YOU. I remember one of my best friends telling me "she's totally into you", and I was like "shut up, we're just good friends", and even then, I had to go out with her in a series of dates for like a week until I was having problems sleeping, paying attention to my stuff etc and I told myself "dude, you're making yourself so tense that hearing a NO will be better than not knowing", and the answer was a "yes", Sunday we complete 2 years together 
