amIstalking.com would probably be more useful
Amber Weekes
Ever wonder if playing the guitar outside your crush’s dorm could be considered flirtatious? The folks over at Am I Flirting? a blog dedicated to helping you figure out if your wayward glance or awkward joke about his biceps are flirtatious say “absolutely”. They had this to say to in response to chump who wrote in asking “Am I flirting if I play the guitar in her general vicinity?”
This question is older than time, older than Dire Straits, and almost as old as guitars themselves. If that guy on the steps of his apartment building or out on the campus lawn just wanted to practice some Jack-Johnson-ass modern rock hits, he would do it in his room. That’s not going to happen, though, because that destroys his chances of being able to casually refer to a passing girl’s body as “a wonderland” without getting spit on.
If that guy is you, you should be aware that you’re emitting a semi-spherical aura of flirtation. Casting a wide net has its pluses and minuses. Plus: if you’re talented and not obnoxious, you could potentially strike up some good, productive conversations. Minus: if you’re either a horrible musician or a really skeevy individual, EVERYONE CAN HEAR YOU. The moral of this story is that flirting is hard work, which means you might have to actually practice music and/or basic hygeine before you take your game out in public.
We can turn out 40-page papers about race theory in a weekend, effortlessly help our little brothers with AP Calc BC homework, and converse intelligently about the manioc market. And yet, somehow, despite our intellectual prowess the questions “Am I flirting?” seems to frequently stump even the most perceptive among us.
The website’s enjoyable to read through, but I think to ever do justice to the complexity of the question “Am I flirting?” one must must combine a thorough New Historical analysis of the situation with a professional psychoanalytical analysis. Flirting is so highly contextual that the answer to “was that flirting?” is almost always “depends.”
So, Penn students, you’ve got three weeks left on this beautiful campus of ours. Fill those weeks with innocent flirtation, confident that if there’s ambiguity, you can always run to AmIFlirting.com.
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