Free Hugs

I am not really interested in getting free hugs from strangers. When I saw those activists giving free hugs, I always walked as far away as possible.

Well, there is one kind that I especially don't like even more.

For example, a guy (coded: KFC man) asked me to meet him for lunch on a working day, but I still said yes since I thought it was nice to have lunch with someone. When I arrived at the meeting point in front of a KFC, he was not there. I had to wait like 10 minutes before he showed up. Then he told me that he had already eaten, and that it was okay if I still wanted to eat ( of course I wanted to eat. That's why I went there). As I was chewing the barely satisfying grilled chicken burger at KFC, I suddenly received a phone message. I didn't want to check it because I thought it was probably some sort of junk mail. After a few minutes, KFC man asked me if I had received a message. "I think so. Why?" I said.
"Check it now," KFC man insisted.
I took out my phone and found that the text read, "do you want to have a hug in the bathroom?"
Before I even put down my phone back into my pocket, I shook my head saying, "No."
"Really?" KFC man asked.
"Really."
I finished my burger very quickly and on our way downstairs, he asked me again if I wanted to use the bathroom. "No, definitely not," I said.

***
I saw a fruity-looking guy quite often during my lunch hours outside my office. I accidentally ran into his profile on the Internet so I left a message with him and then sort of made friends with him .

There is another guy working out in Ximen that I saw once in a while. I ran into his online profile too. He gave me his msn after I simply left a message on his page saying I had seen him in the gym. So I put him on my msn list. (Coded: N)

Vs told me when we accidentally met in the restaurant close to my work that one of his friends is N. Vs said N checked me out very often in the gym and stuff.

Well, as my current goal is to make some friends, I messaged N on MSN one night just to say hi and to let him know that Vs mentioned about him to me. Since I was going to bed very soon, I didn't want to chat that much. I told him I was going to bed.
"?" he wrote.
"I am going to bed. Good night," I typed again.
"Do you want to have a hug?" N said.
"NO," I said resolutely and logged off immediately.

Now I don't feel like using the gym at Ximen because both of these two men work out in that gym. I also don't feel like meeting new people now. I don't like it when people ask me that question, either euphemized or not. Maybe I should introduce them to each other so that they can hug each other all they want since they both live in the same area.

Embarrassing encounter

After Lk left me an internet message telling me he's seen me in the gym occasionally, I started to actually see this person in the gym occasionally. It's like he'd never existed until he announced his entry into the world on my message board.

Well, the first time I spotted him in the gym was when I was only wrapped in a towel and so was he. To top it all, his locker was right below mine. It was an uncomfortable encounter, but I was doing the thing I was really good at: acting absent-minded and indifferent.

So I quickly dressed myself and went downstairs because I wanted to use the Internet to write something to Cl. As I was waiting for the computer. Lk came downstairs. I struggled a little but and then finally pointed my finger at him, saying, "aren't you the guy on that website?" He nodded while talking on his cell phone, and gesturing me to wait a minute. I got a computer to use around the same time so I just browsed through the Internet. After Lk finished his phone call, he just told me he had to leave immediately for a dinner with his friends......

Anyway, after that strange encounter, I occasionally ran into this guy that checked me out in the gym.

Very funny.