Stalker + Intimate Looks at my Life?
Aug. 21st, 2021 01:36 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jpegghostI got my first tattoo stalker... I think.
Her name is Amber, she showed up at the shop one day while I was working on someone. She asked if she could talk to me, and I said
" ... Hey man, I'm busy, I'll contact you when I'm done."
She said fine, she was going to wait at the gas station nearby until I was done. ...Okay.
She showed up later to discuss flash, but she genuinely didn't want to talk about that long and instead wanted to talk like we were on a date. Getting to know each other stuff. I cut it short and told her I'd contact her on Instagram. She instead gave me her phone number that I later trashed because I don't want to blur the lines of the business relationship.
Over the course of the past month, Amber would send me multiple "good morning" IG messages, or poke me for random reasons. I never respond because again, I see her as a client. Thursday afternoon while I was out with Friend Chelsea at the Natural History Museum, she did her usual 'good morning' text and then just exploded my inbox with random memes. As in, memes I don't understand. Memes about furries, memes about Jesus loving me, memes about cats eating fruits, memes about anime. Like it was a LOT (probably ten memes). And unprompted!
And while it's anticlimactic, I didn't respond. I don't have anything to say. And I don't know what to do if she shows up at the shop again.
Climb through the ceiling to freedom maybe? Tunnel out the back wall?
The current joke in the shop is that she is in love with me. UGH.
On an entirely unrelated note, I'm probably going to start taking photos of small things in my apartment, during my day at the tattoo shop, things you wouldn't normally care about but I find interesting (as in, what's on my bookshelf, in my mess drawer, on my record cabinet). I don't really have a real reason to, other than to enjoy the aesthetic of small things in my life. I'm trying to think of a good tag for it, but I'm looking forward to it actually!
Her name is Amber, she showed up at the shop one day while I was working on someone. She asked if she could talk to me, and I said
" ... Hey man, I'm busy, I'll contact you when I'm done."
She said fine, she was going to wait at the gas station nearby until I was done. ...Okay.
She showed up later to discuss flash, but she genuinely didn't want to talk about that long and instead wanted to talk like we were on a date. Getting to know each other stuff. I cut it short and told her I'd contact her on Instagram. She instead gave me her phone number that I later trashed because I don't want to blur the lines of the business relationship.
Over the course of the past month, Amber would send me multiple "good morning" IG messages, or poke me for random reasons. I never respond because again, I see her as a client. Thursday afternoon while I was out with Friend Chelsea at the Natural History Museum, she did her usual 'good morning' text and then just exploded my inbox with random memes. As in, memes I don't understand. Memes about furries, memes about Jesus loving me, memes about cats eating fruits, memes about anime. Like it was a LOT (probably ten memes). And unprompted!
And while it's anticlimactic, I didn't respond. I don't have anything to say. And I don't know what to do if she shows up at the shop again.
Climb through the ceiling to freedom maybe? Tunnel out the back wall?
The current joke in the shop is that she is in love with me. UGH.
On an entirely unrelated note, I'm probably going to start taking photos of small things in my apartment, during my day at the tattoo shop, things you wouldn't normally care about but I find interesting (as in, what's on my bookshelf, in my mess drawer, on my record cabinet). I don't really have a real reason to, other than to enjoy the aesthetic of small things in my life. I'm trying to think of a good tag for it, but I'm looking forward to it actually!
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Date: 2021-08-21 08:36 pm (UTC)So probably a good idea to talk to the rest of the shop that you don't want to see her, and if she shows up, tell her that while you understand from her actions that she would really like to be your personal friend, that you see her as a client. And that if she can't be cool with that it would be best if she didn't contact you or show up. Which is harsh but true.
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Date: 2021-08-22 12:36 am (UTC)I doubt she will show up at the shop again. Maybe. She's usually blowing up my DMs so next time I'm going to tell her we have a strictly business relationship and I'm not enjoying the stuff she's sending me. Sighhh.