Hello dolls I was introduced to the mayor (not major) of Hertford last night, very formally, with my name announced by someone who looked like a beefeater minus the beef, and somewhere, with my nerves going crazy, I said "Hiya". I SAID HIYA TO THE MAJOR. oh dear. Why didn't i listen to everyone else when they said "good evening mr major". why? gah. My embarassment was consoled with ten tables of minatre food. I didn't eat all ten tables of it, obviously. Ten plates, maybe. Mind you, if i wasn't on the youth council, i wouldn't have an excuse to talk to random skateboys about my proposals to open a skatepark. I haven't said anything to them yet, i'm choosing my moment. I don't really know how best to talk to them, should i litter words like "rad" "old skool sick" "ollie" into the conversation? Rob Callendar said:

Unfortunately those that do approach me I do not fancy myself. The best method for a shy boy to talk to a potential partner or friend is to get one of your friends to go and get the person you like. It saves alot of time. Happened to me last night.

I'm not mocking you, but wasn't it great when you used to be able to just get one of your mates to say "my friend fancies you" and the rest was history? It was so easy. I regularly used to be asked out at primary school without evening talking to the person, they just used to stand five metres away squirming while their mate came up with a big grin on their face, ready to pop the question! and it was ace! and you'd always say yes, and then if you found out you didn't like them, you could always share your walkers with someone else until they got the message. Mind you, primary school wasn't all sweetness and light for me, i was always too tall to dance with the boys at the 6pm end of term discos. So i used to go solo, you know, shaking my bit, to the hit, so the teachers wouldn't look at me *that way* if I was standing on the sidelines, gazing longling at simon lawrence (school stud).

How do you get together with people you fancy?

If i knew the answer to that question, i'd probably wouldn't be writing this. Or i'd be writing it telling you what to do. With the last person I *thought* I fancied, i simply engineered it so we would be in the same place at the same time and got talking to them. But then crushboy turned into normalboringboy and i'm left without anyone to swoon over. Which is getting v.boring.. Erica xxx (who is busing wearing mini-skirts, going ice-skating, watching horror movies and believing her horoscopes under Arantxa's instruction. Because you're only young once, and i'm not going to stay inside listening to wimpy pop records all day). +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the reborn Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail "sinister@majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo@majordomo.net". WWW: http://www.majordomo.net/sinister +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +-+ "jelly-filled danishes" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+