A cool, yet eerie thing happened today when I was running around outside Perfumemania conducting a scent test with all the female shoppers. I was running around with 2 fragrance sample papers, each with a different cologn on them and using opinion opener.
Today's laundry day, so I was wearing some pretty lame clothes except for a wildly patterned zip-up hoody from Buckle, and I had only spritzed on a small (4 shots) dose of Lucky You about 9 hours earlier. Most folks were friendly anyway, and I only got shot down one time out of probably 30 approaches. What happened next caught me completely off guard: a HB9.5 stoped calmly in the middle of the mall when I approached, and I got no bitch shield WHATSOEVER. Whenever I talked, she smiled and nodded, and whenever I finished a statement, she didn't move to walk away, she just waited quietely for the next thing I would say. No other girls I surveyed did this, so I was having trouble gaming her because she was so receptive. Somehow she was silently hypnotizing me. I didn't snap out of it until she asked my age, which, of course I have a fun response prepared for that question. It went something like this:
HB: "How old are you?"
KM: "Take a guess."
HB: "Um.. 25."
KM: "Na, that's not it. But we can get to the bottom of this. Have you got a coin?"
HB: * Thinks for a second, then decides she wants to see what will happen* "Yeah, I do." * puts bags down in the middle of the crowd, opens her purse * "I have lots of coins."
KM: "Well, we only need one." * takes coin from her while making sure to kino slightly against her hand, she does the same * "Okay, so your guess is 25."
HB: "Yup."
KM: * grin! flip coin into the air, everyone in mall watching us *
COIN: HEADS!!!
KM: "Okay, I'm older than that."
HB: LOL "Okay, uh 27?"
KM: * Tosses coin again *
COIN: TAILS!!!
KM: "I'm younger.. okay, you got me. I'm 26!"
HB: LOL
* Kino again when I give the coin back to her *
Turns out she liked the Lucky You I was wearing better than the 2 cologns I was asking her to sample
