I have a long history of weird people hitting on me at the Terminus – usually because I was waiting for Ruth and reading. Apparently this meant I was “smart”.

So much to Ruth’s amusement 30-something women would come talk to me. As they were usually slightly mentally unstable 30-something women it often made for bizarre and amusing conversations.

Now Ruth doesn’t work at the Termi anymore so I don’t often go. But last night we stopped in from a drink and ended up staying for a while.

Even though I wasn’t reading my pattern of weird women continued. A quite pretty young blond woman leaned over me and asked for a light – which I duly gave her. She then proceeded to introduce herself as “Hil”. In her first sentence I learnt “Hil” was short for Hilary. In her second sentence she indicated she was from Echuca. Okay so far so good. Normal thus far. But the third sentence:

“You know it’s really hard to find someone who wants to fuck me in the arse and really hurt me.”

She then proceeded to make it clear that if I could fulfill her requirements we could leave now. I pointed out Ruth and gave my apologies and she went back to her own table. Good to see I can still pull the interesting women…