Barb's Burblings

How not to behave around women

I went to lunch yesterday with Steve and Becca. We left the restaurant, and a couple of women came up and asked whether we knew how to get to a certain other restaurant. I gave them directions, and they headed off in the wrong direction. A group of three guys saw them head the wrong way, and one of them says to us, "You gave them the wrong directions; [restaurant] is that way," indicating the way I had told the women. We said that I had told them to go the way he had just pointed, and the guy called after the women that they were headed the wrong way--the women were like, "We know!" Which...yeah.

Anyway. So the guys and us made a few comments about the women going the wrong way, and I joked that yeah, I lied to the women. One guy goes, "Do you know where [random restaurant] is?" I'm all, "No," and the guy walks up to me, puts one hand on my arm, the other at the base of my neck and points my head up--the restaurant was next to where were standing. He says, "I wanted to see whether you were going to lie to me, too."

Ew ew ew. Why did this guy touch me? And like that? Dude, if you were trying to flirt, it's best a) not to touch a woman in a way that you're controlling her movements, and b) not to make her feel stupid. Anyway, we hightailed it out of there.