"Everybody's making love or else expecting rain"

prufrock — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 07:59:50 -0800

So... I think I might have ruined a perfectly good opportunity for my first one night stand last night. Please tell me what I did wrong, ye denizens of yon AskMetafilterland. Too much detail because I do not know where my mistake lies and I want to give the exact nature of what went down. I apologize for the 'Penthouse letters' tone of the description. So, I was at my regular bar just like any other Monday. I walk in, and notice that someone is sitting at my usual stool at the bar. I pay it no mind and sit a few chairs next. After a drink and a brief chat with the bartender, I notice that said adjacent occupant is eyeing me. She moves a stool or so closer to me and asks "So, do you know [Bartender's name]?"

So we chatted briefly about the bartender and the establishment and other sundry topics of mutual interest. There was a sense I got from her interaction that she was about to leave when I arrived at the bar, and that she was just hanging around to talk to me at that precise moment. This might have been cleverly plotted through certain words being overused or it might just be in my head. We play trivia and she says she is only going to stick around for this one round. But she stays till the end. We lose gloriously.

There was a point in our conversation when the landscape of what was entailed changed from "just some people talking at a bar" to "possibility of a hookup". It was so darn subtle, that my mind sober from this morning's crisp air and a tall coffee cannot fathom it, so my inebriated self last night was far beyond trying to understand what was going on. She led and I followed.

Anyway, "One more drink and I'll leave you be" turned into "I don't think I can drive home, I think I'll crash at the nearest hotel?"

Now, we had been talking extensively about how I lived across the street from the bar. And how I was known to stumble home after many a drinking session. So, I say "Nonsense, you're crashing with me" And to my surprise, she says yes and we leave the bar before closing time.

We go back to my place, she puts Semisonic on. (she liked Semisonic, for some reason) Streaming from somewhere. We talk and jam for a while. Subsequently, she lies on the bed and says "When are you going to kiss me" or something of that nature.

Here, I must mention that I am very sheepish about these things in general. And to have a half-naked, absolutely divine female lying in my bed asking me to kiss her was really too much for me to handle.

So, I lean down and kiss her. Even then, I had no notion of what protocols I was supposed to follow. Do I presume that this is a hookup and lie down in the bed, or should I go to the spare room?

Anyway, like I said, she led and I followed. She asked me to lie down and I did. Here, I sort of came into my own, and went forth to pursue/fulfill something I always wanted to do. I ask her if she wants a massage, actually I don't think I even asked her. I brought forth some body oil and started massaging her neck/shoulders. She takes off her top and bra and I continue downward. After several minutes, I manage to conjure up the courage and ask her to take her jeans off, and she does so willingly. Massage continues southward.

There was intermittent making out going on throughout this, but nothing more. Here is where things get a little hazy for me.

Objectively speaking, here is a beautiful girl who has come to my place more or less of her own volition. She is not drunk or trashed. She is lying naked in my bed with me(I'm fully clothed). And I have just given her a full body massage. Ok, with me so far ? Then, she says "You weren't thinking of getting laid tonight, were you?" And I say "Maybe" And she says, "Aww, that's sweet but you're too young for me" I'm 25 she's 35.

More kissing/fondling/making out. She spends the night, we cuddle and make out whenever we're awake during the night. I try to walk her to her car this morning, she says she'd rather I didn't. (Presumably she didn't want me to know her car/numberplate? This is sort of a small suburban town) A tiny bit of making out and she is gone. We did exchange phone numbers(I get the impression that she did so begrudgingly.) but I doubt I will ever hear or see her again.

Ok, I might have said something like "You deserve someone much better than me" during one makeout session. That couldn't be it, could it?

Did I do something wrong or was it never her intention of hooking up? Was I not forceful enough...I did ask her to take off her jeans, I don't know how more assertive I could have been. Did she change her mind midway through our discourse at my place, for some reason?

I'm going insane (and a teeny bit paranoid) trying to figure out where my mistake lay. Please explain to me the nature of this behaviour.

Thanks!

Origin of nude Jonas Brothers Gone Wild photos? (blurred-out nsfw)

Quarter Pincher — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 01:28:58 -0800

Are these blurred-out shots of the Jonas brothers authentic? If not, that's some darn good photoshopping. Any details on where this might have come from, or the nature of the originals if they were edited (aside from the blurs, obviously)..?

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What have we lost forever?

MrBCID — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 15:14:38 -0800

What significant items have been irretrievably lost? Back in 1906 a fire in San Francisco caused by a huge earthquake destroyed the Levi Strauss headquarters and factories; taking along with it many original designs.

Last Fall the fires in North San Diego destroyed the house of Paul Kassel who owned Mickey Mantle's last baseball jersey.

Is there a list out there that has compiled items or collections lost forever? For example irreplaceable items lost in the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001?

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strangelove — Fri, 24 Mar 2006 19:06:41 -0800

Anyone know what happened to the-underdogs.org, and where I can find a similar site?

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"Everybody's making love or else expecting rain"

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