are you flirting with me?

i know my problem now. i think i can recognize when guys are flirting with me but it's usually the wrong guys (and they're not flirting).

yesterday, the telephone guy finally came in to install the microfilter for my phone line. my buzzer still doesn't seem to work but that's not his fault. anyway, i run downstairs to open the door for him and, lucky for me, he's kind of cute in a skateboardy-geeky sort of way. we seem to have a moment when he walks in the door - our eyes meet and there's some sort of mutual thing. anyway, we spend the next 15 minutes wandering my building trying to find the phone room. luckily for us, we run into a guy who used to be on council and he points us in the right direction. BTW, had we just continued wandering, we never would've found it. but i digress...

anyway, we chat as he's installing the filter (it's obvious he's married because of the ring) - he talks about his little girls and the family's upcoming trip to hawaii in the new year (they went last year and the year before and his wife doesn't work - i'm so in the wrong profession). once he's installed the microfilter in the telephone room, he says he needs to come up to my suite to install something else (cue the 70s porn music...)

anyway, he actually did have to install a double line (could sound dirty but it wasn't). after he was done, we stood in my kitchen chatting about the merits of the BlackBerry (he saw my BB on my counter and picked it up). when he left, he gave me a smile, a fleeting look and said, "see ya later."

why is it so much easier to flirt with guys that aren't available and/or don't want anything to do with me than it is to flirt with guys who are available and/or do want something to do with me?

ah, the age-old question.

incidentally, i've discovered that every second wednesday of the month at the paramount theatre downtown they have an event called "click at a flick", hosted by lavalife and it's where singles 19 - 34 come to mingle and watch a movie - all for the price of admission. the next event is this coming wednesday but the movie is "the prestige", which i've already seen. strange because in calgary and toronto where this is also taking place, they are showing "stranger than fiction" which i want to see and haven't. why would they have different movies? is vancouver that far behind? anyway, i liked the movie but not enough to see it twice in the theatre...maybe. :)