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If you travel enough for work and are at all decent looking, you will be hit on even if you are not looking for it.Some people watch too many movies. So you go on a business trip and suddenly there are random women beating down your hotel door? Or fawning all over the old guy at the club? Puhlease.
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i've had more than a few women approach, take the seat next to me at a bar and strike up small talk. the last time I was in Dallas, walking into the hotel bar as i often do with laptop as the evening is winding down, to catch up on the days emails and events and a gal (somewhat pretty too chubby for me) was walking out. I noticed her as she was leaving and she definitely noticed me. And as I pulled up a stool at the bar, she suddenly returned about 10 minutes later. She joked that she was heading to bed but decided to sit and have one more. i chatted politely to her but never gave her an ounce of flirt or that i was opening the door to anything more. She flat out said to me 'you are not into me at all are you' and I joked and said everything was all good, I liked meeting and chatting with new people. She chatted a bit more and then said goodnight and went up to her room. I am sure I could have joined her had I wanted to.
Anyway TS the key for me has always been not to escalate. in years in the office where affairs have been possible and many of my work mates succumbed I found the best defense is simply not to escalate, don't flirt. You start playing that game of 'seeing where things go' as you go from innocent joking, to flirtation, to touching, etc and it escalates. if you simply do not start most women will move on. Most don't have the ego to chase a guy they think is not interested.