Hey folks... I'm Back! Just returned from vacation in Iowa! Most people vacation in Aruba... Hawaii... Europe... I go to Iowa!
I had a great time and found out an important thing about myself:
I can't flirt!!!!
Nope. Can't do it. I'm horrible at it. When I try to flirt, I end up sounding like a fool at best.. and at worst, I come off like a stalker!
I was visiting one of my best friends. We spent the weekend at Lake Okoboji, Iowa. It's a beautiful lake with lots of good-lookin', strappin' Iowa men! The trouble with Iowa is most of those men come with a wedding ring already attached! I did meet a farmer boy --without a ring-- in the Lake Okoboji "Kum and Go" mini-mart. (Yep! That's really the name of the mini-mart chain!) When I asked where folks go for fun on a Friday night - I was told to check out a bar in the Arnolds Park area. Then he went back to telling his buddy all about the new pick-up truck he just bought!
Strike One in the flirting game!
After graduating from the University of Okoboji (if you've been there you will get the joke) -- I caught my flight back home. As I approached gate B-18 to catch my connection at Phoenix's Sky Harbor Airport.. a man in a uniform met me and scanned my ticket.
"Oops! We're all out of seats!" he said. "My pilot powers aren't important enough to check you in." I laughed at his little joke.
DID HE SAY PILOT???? HELLO!!! Oh, wait just one minute! I think he's flirting! But of course I'm too dense to catch it off the bat! So I try my best recovery: "Oh, I'm sure you're the most important person here." LAME COMEBACK!!! My best swing at flirting and it goes foul!
We fly through some very stormy weather and land in Burbank. Who is there to greet me as I get off the plane? The same cute pilot! "That was a fun flight," he said about the turbulence.
Here it is-- my chance to redeem myself!
I respond: "Oh yes it was! Nice job!" UGH!!! THAT'S THE BEST I COULD COME UP WITH??!!! I know.. I'll chat with him a bit more and find a way to give him my phone number. But that little plan was blocked by the passengers behind me who wanted off the plane and protective gaze of the matronly flight attendant standing next to him! Earlier in the flight she was a very kind woman.. but the uncomfortable glare she shot me told me she wasn't letting anyone get to her boy!
Strike Two!
But this wasn't for lack of trying. It was a lack of follow-thru on my part. What I need is to meet this guy without his watchdog standing by. So if anyone knows who that pilot was on US Airways Flight 2761 leaving Phoenix at 4:53pm on Sunday, August 25 bound for Burbank... please let me know!
PS- I'm also looking for a good flirting coach!
