[The One and Only...]

Originally Posted by Perndog

If people annoy the shit out of you, why are you so interested in picking up a girl?

Not all people annoy, just many of them. It's not as if I lack any friends. What I meant by loner is that I don't seem to need much human contact, largely in part because I generally avoid social gatherings.

And if any of your threads about reading signals were serious, all indications are that you do not talk to girls easily and casually or at least do not give that appearance. If we get that impression over the Internet, you can bet the ladies get it in person.

Perhaps I do put off that image, but it could only be because I never initiate a conversation with them. Except the girl I sit next to in science, but that's because I sit next to her. That class is so boring that I have to talk to someone.

I understood perfectly. You don't outwardly display that you are interested in sex. From your self-description, regardless of what's going on in your head, you act more like a walking corpse than a vibrant, exciting, and attractive male. "Cold fish" is never a descriptor that can be seen in a positive light, and if you can apply it to yourself, your problem should be too obvious to need anyone's advice.

I believe I misunderstood what cold fish means, although I would have to say that it is an accurate description of how I appear to the vast majority. The exception, of course, may be the girl in science.

Although I would like to ask you - if a few girls ask you to sit by them (another girl left, leaving an empty seat) in class, all the while telling another guy not to sit there, would you consider it flirting? If so, would you please explain to me why I have such an easier time with the sophomores than with the freshmen?

You're in high school. Watch the jocks. If you want to get laid, act like them. If you want an intelligent, interesting female companion, it's not hard to make friends with girls. If you want a worthwhile companion who will also have sex with you, don't even bother trying until you get to college. It'll take more time than you have before graduation to change your attitude, let alone your rapidly crystallizing reputation. My personality changed somewhere around 10th grade but the girls at my school always hung on to their impression of me from 7th grade (they still do, which is why I don't try and date girls I went to high school with). That's how it works.

Right now, I just want my life to quit being such an endless cliche. It's driving me nuts.