There is a man who I think works at HOSDB and he is swooooooonsome

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Anyway, I know nothing about him and he walks past my ds nursery when I drop of ds. He could be married or mad or anything really but I was wondering whether to stick a note on a lamp post alerting him to my interest????

I know this is weird but the alternative is loitering and waiting for him to walk past and then sort of jumping on him (ykwim). I am normally in the car by the time he walks past, you see. We never 'cross paths', so to speak.

Would it be double weird to email HOSDB and tell them there is a man there I am secretly in love with?

Thanks in advance,
Manless of Moldovia

can't you dilly dally a bit so you're not in the car yet when he passes and oops, drop a load of files on the floor or the contents of your handbag or something?

btw.. I had a thing like this years ago for a bloke who walked past my house every day, I engineered a meeting, went out with him a couple of times and bleughh.. he was as dull as ditchwater, lol

Sometimes it's better to keep things as a fantasy

btw.. what is HOSDB?

Home Office Scientific Development Branch. It's hidden away up the road amongst bushes and trees!

I will try and engineer something I think - lampost posting is possibly just too weird!

Got all weekend to think about it.

Right, now I made a 'poster' type message thing and stuck it to a lampost but he changed his route to work and the dustmen were all there and all had a good look at what I was doing which was ultra embarrassing so I took down my poster.

Now I feel like a stalker. I AM a stalker because I've spent the rest of the week checking out his route to work so I can re-pin my poster to une autre tree or lampost.

I think I need plan C.

Since, as I have discovered, the security is quite high here and they change their method of getting to the branch and swap cars and stuff, would it be bad of me to email their contact centre and describe my dilemma.

It would kinda give away the fact that I have been stalking the HOSDB staff wouldn't it? I might get into trouble

Seriously, please advise..!

My poster said...

To the man who walks this way to work each day:

This could be dangerously innapropriate, especially if you are married with children or gay, etc. but I wanted to tell you that I think you are hugely attractive.

If you ARE married, gay, whaterver, then please accept my apologies and simply enjoy the compliment.

Blah, blah, blah....

Are you crazy???
This is NOT the way to pursue a man....you must be much less obvious.
Have you thought that maybe he has changed his route because there is a mad lady drooling over him every morning and makes him feel uncomfortable?!
And really, really, really do not e-mail his workplace.

I never normally do ANYTHING like this. The point is that I am out of an oppressive relationship and want to enjoy being single, being free to date, free to flirt and free to be nuts if I want.

The thing is, I don't exactly care if this sends him running a mile. I'm not pinning my hopes on anybody but I enjoy male company and dating in a general sort of way so it is fun.

He isn't remotely aware of my stalkerish actions as I just drive past each day as I normally do only mentally I am clocking everything.

If someone mailed me to say they had seen me walk to an obvious place of work and found me attractive I'd be flattered. If they emailed me and said they had Googled for days to track me down in order to ask me out for lunch I'd be worried.

How the hell am I supposed to make my thoughts known without physically accosting him in the street.

I thought this was more subtle than that - if slightly off the wall - but am happy to stand corrected.

Will be mortified if you are right and I am more mad than I thought.

I think it's fantastic...a bit wacky, yes, but so what? If he fancies you, that wont put him off.

Well, maybe the lamp post or e-mail should be more of a last resort method? Is there no other way you can catch his eye without being quite so 'wacky'?!

Dropping a bag of something? Pretending you didnt see him and walking flat bang into him? You'd need to get there earlier if you only see him from your car.

It's slap bang isn't it, not flat bang. Grr.