Then off to lunch with 3 lady friends. 2 were single well-to-do professionals. 1 was single but not a professional.
We had a great time at lunch. Everyone wanted a hug on meeting and leaving. Conversation touched on some heavy subjects on their minds, but the mood was still enjoyable. Then we went out for a bit of shopping/browsing. Finally I accomapanied one of the professionals to her house to show her how to do some household maintenance tasks. I showed her and watched her do most of the work.
These are my friends. I am married so I am not trying to hit on them, although I do find them attractive and fun to be with.
We were able to have a great time together so I count this little experiment a success. The buffered anone, in an atmosphere of caring and respect, adds an interesting spice to the interaction.
In to see a medical professional. I’d interacted with her once before. She wanted to schedule me for 2 apointments and I had objected so she scheduled one longer apointment to do what she had to do. She may not have been happy with that.
Her, mid 40’s, asiatic descent but well Americanized. She had a gentle touch and voice and obviously prided herself on her equanimity.
So she starts her procedure, does something, and tells me to remain still. So I stay still. 10 minutes later she comes back and says “oh no, you moved.” I’m wondering how I moved but I decide to say nothing. So she goes away, comes back, and begins to start the procedure all over again. This time she repeats the verbal command “stay still” 3 times as she is trying to move one of my body parts. I think “this is curious” but keep the body part immobile. Then she says in an irritated tone “You need to relax and let me position you the way I want.” So I relax without saying anything, just letting her contradictory statements hang in the air. There was another patient and an assistant around and they were looking puzzled too.
I got the feeling she was irritated and wanted to argue or fight about nothing. I didn’t oblige and just left her a mirror to look at. I got the feeling she was not only frustrated with me but also with her own reactions.
medical prof reaction sounds consistent with that of a somewhat insecure but higher status person who does not feel comfortable with the discrepancy between how they feel in your presence and how they think they should feel. hence irrational subconscious attempts to bring you down a peg.
You may be right. The woman was highly social and made pleasant small talk with all the other patients. She was not on the high-status end of the medical profession, although perhaps in her own eyes she was. I hang out with MDs quite a bit.
I got the feeling of a PMSing woman who wanted to pick a fight, but only with me.
I’ve gone through a to-go of mx 330. It is a good solid mix appreciated by the ladies. Had numerous experiences, but a typical one involved going to a farewell party for a woman who was leaving the area. I had had some business/professional conflicts with her in the past. At the sendoff I wished her the best and gave her a hug. She asked "really?’ After I assured her my feelings were sincere she told me how much that meant to her. She had captured my arm during the hug and would not let go. This was a composed professional woman and although I saw her interact with numerous people our interaction was unique.
That was a typical type of reaction.
I had one unusual reaction that I’d like to document here. After leaving a movie theatre with my wife and daughter (both attractive adult females) and walking through an empty (of people) and dark parking lot trying to find our car, a young man started pacing us. He walked to intercept and then walked closely. My first impression was that we were being set up for a mugging. I looked around for others but did not see any. The fellow was a focus of my attention in a way that normally puts people off. All the while my wife was talking to me “I think it’s over there”, “Here it is” etc., speaking of the location of our car. Our shadow also said “yes, here it is.” He was right next to us in the lot as I was opening our car without taking my eyes off him. As we loaded in he opened the car parked next to ours and got in. After we got into the car and got started my daughter said “That guy was creepy!”
If the fellow was harmless he needlessly put himself in a dangerous situation with no apparent awareness of the fact.
If he had malicious intent he apparently had second thoughts and gave up on realizing his purpose, but not without an unusually long decision process.
In either case, it was unusual enough to record here.
Test 1 – 3 sprays to chest. Off to get a haircut. Things went fairly normally. The receptionist and the haircut lady were friendly. Haircut lady was talkative. While I was sitting on the bench waiting and reading a magazine, an older lady sat down next to me. Then a while later her teenaged daughter sat down between us. The daughter and I exchanged glances but then she devoted her attention to speaking with her mother.
Test 2 – 2 drops mutant a314, 3 sprays MX393 to chest. Then off to man a booth at a professional convention. The conventioneers were attending talks for a good portion of the time so I had lots of time to go to the other booths and talk to the people manning them. Good receptions from both men and women, and extended conversations. A young not-yet-legal lass who was working at the convention stopped by to talk to me. She was engaging yet shy. A couple of times she ran out of things to say and got a look on her face like she would like to continue the interaction but didn’t know how. I rescued her each time and she continued on. Finally she realized she would have to get back to work and left my booth.
There was an oyster bar at the convention with people shucking raw oysters for the conventioneers. I had quite a few. My wife, who was also there, reminded me more than once of my later responsibilities after eating the oysters.
As we were wrapping up a couple of ladies from adjacent booths stopped by and asked me if I was coming back the next day.
Overall impressions – No off the wall effects evident. Things went pretty normally. People seemed comfortable around me. Young women did not seem at all put off by this mix.
Well, 15 years have past since the last post and the forum has been resurrected. It appears that the old archived threads have lost their edit buttons, so my original intent of keeping the top index posts in this thread up to date is no longer viable. (Unless the edit button comes back) However, this thread collects most of my experimentation and pondering on the early forum, so it may be of use to people starting their explorations.
Welcome back, and thank you for bringing this one back to life. It’s still one of the best records on the forum of how these formulas behave in real situations.
You’re right about the edit buttons. Members can only edit a post for a limited time after posting, so after all these years they were long gone. I’ve turned the 4 index posts at the top of this thread into wiki posts, so you can edit them again and keep the index up to date. The Edit button is back at the bottom of each one. If anything doesn’t work, let me know and I’ll sort it out.
