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Message: <blockquote data-quote="TheAuldGrump" data-source="post: 5755098" data-attributes="member: 6957">Heh, not many details, no pics.She was interested, had actually talked about it with some of my players - who neglected to tell her that I have been seeing the same girl for twelve years now. (A married couple of gamers, they have met Jackie, but for some reason they don't see me having a nongamer as a girlfriend.)The girl in question was working at Borders, and was stressed by seeing her job go away.Nevermind that I am am half again as old as her - she is half-plus-seven, but only barely. She is also tiny - I swear that I can hold my arm out straight and she could walk under it, maybe ninety pounds, sopping wet. Makes the age difference more noticeable. (I have enough difficulty being eight years older than Jackie, I don't want to feel like a cradle robber.)The fact that I only found out afterwards that it was a seduction attempt, on the other hand, is something I find hilarious - takes a special talent to miss a seduction attempt when it sits naked in your lap. Twice.I just assumed that she was trying to freak the 'dane. I am not all that much of a mundane, so, I didn't really freak.If I'd known why she did it then I would have freaked!It took me a while to screw up the courage to tell Jackie - she on the other hand started laughing immediately.Since then I have been to her circle twice, it had been over a decade since the last time.Just been a weird year all 'round. A few months ago I was given a sock (a white, ankle length sock) by a crow that seems to have taken a liking to me. Talkative bird, with a whole menagerie of sounds, it likes my shoulder. If you have ever had a crow caw six inches from your ear, then you know that they can be loud!It had used me for a perch a couple of times before I tried petting it. I figured 'hey, what's the worst that can happen? It tries biting me or giving me a peck?' Turned out that the worst it could do was sit there, happily, for twenty minutes while I pet it and people point and go 'look at the guy with a crow!' <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" />Every week or so it seeks me out. Once it smelled of cinnamon and sandalwood, so I am not the only person that it visits. The time I gave it a bit of burger it flew off, and returned with the sock. I still have the sock, can't throw it away, it's a present. I gather that this kind of behavior is something that started recently with urban crow populations.It did not like Jackie (my Jackie is a country girl), but got along fine with the girl from Borders - she calls it my familiar.The Auld Grump, if the crow was all forbidding and ominous I could look so cool. Instead it acts like a clown, and makes me look ridiculous. <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/laugh.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":lol:" title="Laughing    :lol:" data-shortname=":lol:" /></blockquote>

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