Look!

There’s a certain look, and this has been scientifically proven, but when a girl looks at you just so it unleashes a chemical in your hypothalamus that makes it physiologically impossible to say no. To anything. Robbing a bank, moving to rural Saskatchewan, piercing your nipples. Anything. Doesn’t matter how ridiculous, or ill advised, or against your deepest held moral principles. You can’t say no.

You can try to. You can actually say the words “no” or “I can’t” or I probably shouldn’t”, but you don’t mean it, and you know you don’t mean it. And more importantly, she knows you don’t mean it.

The worst thing is, there’s no telling when the looks going to come. It’s not as clear-cut as the rules around say Medusa. With Medusa you just learned not to look at all, or else you ended up stone.

But with this look, THE LOOK, you never really know. You can look at the same girl fifty, a hundred, even a thousand times, and still walk away completely unscathed. Then, one day, the perfect storm of emotion, and neuro-electric-chemicals and booze descends upon you and boom; the solid ground you’re standing on falls away and you’re in completely uncharted territory.

That’s the downside. The upside is you get to see that look. Is the trade worth it? Probably not. But I still advise anyone given the opportunity to take it and run. You will regret it, but still…