Here's one that will take a long time

[Geonz]

(unless it fades away fast)
... Got the following email today replying to my quick question about the Wednesday "inside rides" which had an attached picture of Miss Gulch from the Wizard of Oz on her bike. (Fudge was dropped off at LBS last week.)


S decreed that indoor rides were over as of 3/1 for you and your little dog.

I've been getting drunk on fudge. That stuff is addictive, thank you.

Life is hectic and my Mom has slipped. I leave for CO skiing 3/10 - 17 if her health allows.

FP

just the bulletpoints m'am

So, I replied with bullet points

* hectic schmectic
* I still want to squeeze you in :-)

So. Here's the question... how can a lady get this past emails and bike rides? What are creative ways of creating contact? (He's at the bike shop which is on my way home... except 3 days a week I work 'til its closing time... tho' it's close enough for dropping by at lunch, which I do... but duly note that open flirtation such as the bulleted points is not my strong point... oh, and we *have* shared long conversations and emails along the way, too. )

[mimitabby]

if you're looking for romance, slow down until the crisis with mom has passed.
Just be there and tell him you're a friend and you'll be there.

[Geonz]

I've been a friend and been there for a couple of crises so that's a known entity. We've been friends for oh, about 7 years... and I am thinking that he's recovered from his rather badly broken heart enough so that while the busted part isn't looking a person could slip in a side door to the heart. (How's that Billy Joel song go about the rooms?)

[mimitabby]

if you've been friends for 7 years, you need to let him know you're not just friends! (or you don't want to be just friends)

[Starfish]

Yeah, just ask the guy out. Preferably to something that he cannot really construe as a friend thing, and preferably somewhere you can dress to make it a date...you know, something to let him see you as a hot woman, not just a bike shop friend. Is there an event that requires dressing up, like a community dinner dance, etc? You can be playful about it...acknowledge you need a "real date" for XXXXXX whatever it is.

Ask him out as a date, let him see you looking different than he normally does for a little jolt of chemistry, and give him an opportunity to get close like dancing.

I don't know. Just some thoughts.

[Zen]

I don't remember...