Anyone "fall" for a girl you know you can't have?
Oh man!
In college there was this girl who for an entire year was in virtually every class as I. My heart kinda did one of those funny beats the first time I saw her, like skipped a few beats. She was just walking in to class, good thing I didn't have to say anything to her at that point because it probably would have came out all tortuous and stuttering.
I had to endure this for an entire year, but I couldn't say or do anything because she wore a big fat engagement ring. Yeah, I know, that wouldn't stop some of you. But that is one of those 'hands off' situations in my view. If she wasn't already happy, she wouldn't be getting married to this guy, and I think its just a little disrespectful to be making moves on someone who is already spoken for.
Except, there is something. I was 20 ~ 21 at the time, and I wasn't all that perceptive about those 'suggestive' kinds of things that women do. I was completely oblivious to almost any kind of flirtatious behavior that fell short of the overt and unambiguous. As one might expect, this can be a problem, because a whole lot of flirtatious behavior falls somewhere short of the overt and unambiguous.
A few years later, I began to finally "pick up" on some of this 'suggestive' behavior, like one of those moments of clarity. DOH! I'm realizing there were several times this girl was really flirting with me and I was completely oblivious to it! We became friends and sat by each other after the first couple classes. But here I am, not wanting to give her the impression that I liked her "like that", because of her engagement ring, and so I kinda put blinders on when I was around her, because I didn't want to misconstrue something she said or did then end-up saying or doing something I would regret.
DUMB ASS STUPID IDIOT! She married whoever he was.
If I knew then what I know now...