Single and still looking.
It's not like I haven't tried, it's that I didn't try when I should have.
Let's see:
Girl #1: Stood me up twice. Gave me a dumb excuse the first time ("I got invited to a cousin's birthday party"), then didn't even bother to give a reason the second time, just a half-hearted shrug of her shoulders. She quit working at the job a month later, and had the audacity to pass along a message saying she missed me.
Girl #2: I've known her now for 9 years, and I ended up catching feelings for her during that time. We became very close friends, and I wound up falling in love, and she knew it, too, but I didn't get off my ass soon enough to get my license, and she wound up falling for another guy. Cue moths of depression and weight loss because of said depression. I eventually made peace with the situation and we managed to retain a friendship; we still see each other almost every night at work and continue to talk and tease each other. She and her BF broke up over a year ago, and I do still have some lingering feelings, but I know those feelings aren't mutual, and I'm not gonna ruin the friendship we managed to salvage from that mess.
Girl #2-and-a-half: I knew she had a crush on me, but I was still head-over-heels for #2 at the time, so I didn't make any attempts. Boy, do I regret it; she was cute as fuck and incredibly geeky. No chance now, as she moved to Florida.
Girl #3: Shouldn't have tried, as I was at the height of my depression because of #2 at the time, but I was hurting and wanted something to take the pain away, so I wasn't thinking straight. She came onto me, and we exchanged Valentine's Day gifts. Probably would've gone further if I hadn't found out a week later that she had a damn fianc. That was a wake-up call out of my depression long enough for me to "Nope!" out of that situation.
Girl #4: Had a crush, confessed to her, she told me "Now's not a good time", and I backed off. Simple and clean.
Girl #5: She was cute and I liked trading smart-ass remarks with her, so hello crush. However, she got suspended for cussing out a manager a few weeks ago, and she still had a blemish on her record from something in her previous work area, so the two of those combined resulted in her being fired. Afterwards, I found out she was only 19 (the youngest I'll go is 21) and she had a 6yo kid. That's baggage I'm not willing to deal with.
Girl #6: I've known her for about 8 years now, and, unfortunately, she rarely ever logs in to Facebook, so I don't get to talk to her that often now; she had to quit work to deal with a family matter last October. She's got 2 kids, but, unlike #5, she didn't have them at the start of her teenage years and she's only a couple years younger than me. I'm pretty sure she had a crush on me, or at least, she thought I was cute/handsome/whatever, as, whenever I wasn't at work, she'd ask whoever I was working with at the time "Where's my (name)???", and was reportedly visibly disappointed when she was told "He called in/is on vacation". She even told me that not only does she want to come back if possible, but she also wants me to move back to the Input line to work alongside her. Sadly, I can't, because the manager told me he can only hire people "off the street" to be a Handler, not someone who is already employed at the company period. (I'm pretty sure that's a change that was made after they raised the pay for Material Handlers to entice them to stay during the height of the pandemic; don't want other employees moving to an easier job that offers more pay than the stressful ones do).
Felt good to get all that out of my system.
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TL;DR: Love life is dry and I'm about ready to give it up; the only thing that'll grab my interest at this point is if a woman asks me out.
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