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nvpkp
@nvpkp
hmm maybe i’ll bundle two together since they’re thematically close but very different. exciting, i love story time. okay see you in the am (clue: ✈️)
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nvpkp
@nvpkp
-- 1 -- 9h transatlantic flight, we're holding the plane for a guy who ends up sitting next to me. he's kind of grubby. i see him scope me out, and i signal "meh plz leave me alone" so he does. above an hour before we arrive i play a game of chess on the screen...
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nvpkp
@nvpkp
and then he starts playing a game on his. i watch a bit and we start talking about it. we must have found things to talk ab, bc when we arrive in oslo for our layover to paris we agree to check out the city. we find an art museum to wander around in, share...
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nvpkp
@nvpkp
notebooks and thoughts on art. we're communicating in half english half french (my fr is terrible now, don't try w me i'll flounder) and having a good time. he invites me to his city during my trip...
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nvpkp
@nvpkp
it didn't feel in-the-moment flirty, but by the end we both had curiosity ab the other person that if we'd ended up in the same city smthg would have happened. he kept mechanical diagrams of his inventions in a notebook, so naturally i was 🥵. do his drawings count as flirting?
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nvpkp
@nvpkp
-- 2 -- this happened a second time on that trip. got to talking to a monk-to-be sitting next to me, and when we landed he followed and spent the next 3 days with me. having conversation and asking for help and being open to things was the flirting in that case ig
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nvpkp
@nvpkp
-- 3 -- (bonus round) a guy who had scoped me out while boarding a plane serendipitously (not initiated by him) got seats switched and ended up next to me. ig he started the chat somehow, we talked for a long time ab our fav books (there was overlap), started sneaking booze...
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nvpkp
@nvpkp
and attracting the attn of the flight attendant which was by then v funny to us. we were having a really good time and flirting away, and he leaned in for a kiss. i turned him away :/ details are fuzzy. i think he had previously told me he was married and so i thought...
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nvpkp
@nvpkp
our carrying on was innocent fun :(. idk. the french, what can you do. this was before poly was so mainstream, nowadays i might inquire ab that in the same situation.
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