Flirting with disaster...

I am a flirt, apparently!

Well, at the most recent Groove Train Gang dinner I was told I was a flirt, and when I denied it and looked around for support the gang all just laughed and said pleeeze...

What?

And then they proceeded to reel off a list of names of people I flirted with... some I agreed with, some I didn't. But it worried me, did I flirt so much, was I indiscriminate?

And then last week in a discussion with my boss, I mentioned that conversation and she said 'you are such a flirt!' with much eye-rolling. WHAT!

Had to check if I was inappropriate, and she said, no not at all, but you do flirt with people. And then went on to say I flirt just as much with the girls as I do with the guys.... I am so confused!!!! And this is why...

Roget's New Millennium™ Thesaurus, First Edition (v 1.3.1)
Main Entry: flirt
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: tease
Synonyms: coquette, cruiser*, gold digger, heartbreaker, operator*, philanderer, player, seducer, siren, swinger, tease, trap, trifler, vamp, vixen, wanton, wolf*, wolverine

Main Entry: flirt
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: tease
Synonyms: banter, chat up, come hither*, come on*, coquet, dally, dilly-dally, disport, eyeball*, fool, gam*, gold dig, hit on*, lead on, linger with, lollygag, monkey with, ogle, philander, pick up*, pitch*, play, proposition, sport, string along, tease, toy, trifle, vamp, wanton, wink at*, wolf-whistle
* = informal or slang

The only words above that I'm prepared to confess to are the verbs, banter and play... I can do the banter thing very well, and I'm very playful. I like people, they interest me, and I play the clown very well, so I can usually get people laughing and talking, but this is not flirting! Is it?

I've never chatted anyone up in my life, and as for being a vamp or a vixen... geez... I wish... there's a reason I dropped out of tap class the year they decided to do the sexy routine to Shaggy's That Girl... I couldn't vamp to save my life!

Speaking to Cheesegirl last week I mentioned that I'd been thinking about this a lot, and she said, we weren't saying it was a bad thing. So why is this making me feel so uncomfortable? Maybe I'm just concerned that I appear foolish?

I can flirt, I have flirted, but usually with people that flirt back! And with people I have absolutely no interest in... I am definitely not good at flirting with people that I am genuinely interested in... shudder... I alternate between being gauche and tongue-tied and stupid, or rude and sarcastic.

This is such a puzzlement...

Seriously, does she look flirty? She had a tiara briefly and elbow length gloves, but I wasn't happy with the shoes...flatties looked silly, and the strappy stilettos are just not me...these are the closest I got to Mary-Jane's. Of course, there is no way anyone would ever see that much of my leggage (my word for leg cleavage)... I'm a floaty skirt to my ankles girl.

I found this on Christine's site, Chicken-Scratch

You can make one of your own by going here
Wonder if there's a Mr Potato Head version... that would be more me!