I was job hunting and I was offered two jobs.
One was to manage a small print shop (Iam a printer by trade) and the other was to manage a small office in a warehouse/trucking company.
I took the latter.
Not long after, this very friendly, teddy bear looking guy comes in. He starts joking and hamming it up with me and I start thinking...this guy likes me. Now he just said his name was Jim and he worked in the other building. After he leaves one of the girls tells me..that's the owner's son. Thinking, OK I like my job so I am not going to touch this one with a ten foot pole. Then I find out he likes to party, something I definately wasn't into at the time, so now it's a defiante no interest.
He asked me out and I was honest with him about the reasons listed above and he was cool with that. Every time we we ran into each other we of course would start flirting. He would ask me out and I would tell him , "you know I can't date you". So this goes on for about a year (he tells me he didn't give up because he was hoping to catch me at weak moment).
So then comes the "Annual Company Picnic". I brought my neice that was about two years old at the time who I was babysitting for the weekend. Well, she is sticking to me like velcro and won't speak to anyone. Along comes Jim trying to make her smile and she's not budging. Well then he does his weekly asking me out routine and after a few minutes I tell him, "if you can get Jess (DN) to say yes, I will go out with you". Now, she has not said boo all day so I figure I am pretty safe. Jim pulls out all the stops and he's working it, workin it...say yes, say yes, say yes. All of a sudden she turns with this huge smile and ever so sweetly comes out with "yes". OH, NO.
Baby's crying. To be continued.....