THE FAVOR

Blog number 450 ******** 26 December 2010

My oldest son - let's call him "Kartr," has had a problem with gays hitting on him constantly for years, for some reason. He hangs out in coffee houses drawing and that seems to attract them like flies. "Why else would he be here?" they seem to be thinking.

He complains that they don't seem to understand rudeness nor direct - "leave me alone" comments. They walk up to him after making a show of themselves in the hope that he will see them and call them over, I guess. When this doesn't work, they will walk right up to where he is obviously busiy with his drawing and introduce themselves. His coldness seems to attract them like heat attracts fleas.

He even once had a Tee shirt made that said, STRAIGHT on it, thinking that may give them a clue that he wasn't interested, and then he heard a gay sitting with others at a table say, "Yeah. Right." So he stopped wearing the tee shirt.

As an example, he told me this latest. And this type of thing goes on every day.

Kartr said that one time he was at Safeway getting Chinese food and this guy kept trying to catch his eye. He says he tried to ignore him as the guy tried to get into his field of view and he would turn the other way, all the time flirting with the WOMAN at the counter.

He said the guy didn't give up so easily, laughing loudly at all his jokes and comments. He said he had his hand on the counter and felt something hitting his fingers - the guy was trying to slide his business card to Kartr. He looked at the guy with a "What the H...!" look and the guy explained, "I'm trying to give you my number!"

Kartr said he looked at the guy's card with horror and left.

Get a clue, Dude.

From Kartr's stories about other incidents like this, there is a very good chance that this guy will try even harder next time. He definitely will not give up.