He's Rick the Creepy Bowling Guy. And he's in love with me.
Rick has worked at my local bowling alley for as long as I can remember. He doesn't own the place, and I don't think he manages it, either. He has just worked there for upwards of 15 years. Very ambitious, you say? Oh yes. Yes, indeed.
When I was in high school, I used to go bowling once a week with my friend, Amy
. Rick knew us by name and we liked him and thought he was cool, for some bizarre reason. We wrote him notes on our score sheet and he used to give us stickers and fake tattoos. He also never let us pay for our bowling shoes. "It's alright, girls. I got it." Oh so suave, Rick. Bowling shoes are totally the way to a girl's heart. Looking back, I have started to realize how nasty it is that a 30 something year-old guy was hitting on a bunch of 15 year-olds (and he was hitting on us).
. Rick knew us by name and we liked him and thought he was cool, for some bizarre reason. We wrote him notes on our score sheet and he used to give us stickers and fake tattoos. He also never let us pay for our bowling shoes. "It's alright, girls. I got it." Oh so suave, Rick. Bowling shoes are totally the way to a girl's heart. Looking back, I have started to realize how nasty it is that a 30 something year-old guy was hitting on a bunch of 15 year-olds (and he was hitting on us).Soon, I left for college and didn't see him for 4 years. When I graduated from college, I moved back to my hometown, just a 5 minute walk from the bowling alley. I went bowling with my roommates one night and saw Rick was there. I didn't say anything, hoping he had forgotten about me. It seemed that he had at first, but after the game, I went up to pay and he goes, "Hey, Kathryn! I wasn't sure it was you at first, but then I recognized your mannerisms."
My bowling mannerisms? He had studied me so closely over the years that he knew my bowling mannerisms? Totally weird.
I go bowling there every once in a while now, and he has gone back to paying for my shoes. He has given me bowling pins a couple times, along with Sharpies to decorate the pins. Yes, apparently, he thinks I'm 3 years old. I still think he's a complete creeper, but he's harmless and I'm not going to complain about getting free shoes. Sometimes you just need to accept the creepiness and use it to your advantage.
How about you guys? I want to hear about all the creepers in your lives, because I KNOW you have one!
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Yeah, I've got a few and for the most part they are located in the same place - the gym! I wish I could say hot men with chiseled abs and stunning features were hitting on me. Nope. Try men about old enough to be my grandfather. There's one man in particular who not only showers me with compliments to the point of complete awkwardness, but actually printed me off little business-card sized things that had weird sayings on it that were supposed to reflect me in some way. Totally creepy! Of course I just smiled and thanked him.
That is hilarious! Seriously weird he knew your mannerisms though!
Hmmm, I have had a creeper. My family is obsessed with the Chargers (football team) and we go to all the home games. So my aunt and I befriended a security guard for the team. Said security guard is probably about 50-60 years old (??) Said security guard also quickly became obsessed with me and every game gives me passes to go see/hang out with the players after the game. I had to give him my number one time so that he could let me know if he could get extra passes for the next game. BIG MISTAKE. He then began texting me non-stop how he's "in love" with me and "I'm beautiful". Obvi I told him I'm not interested in him in that way and that I just wanted to be friends with him. He stopped being SUPER creepy and is just kinda creepy when I see him at the games. He doesn't text anymore either.
I realize I wrote a novel. Sorry. I should have just blogged this. Oh well, maybe later!!
My step brother is a creepy. He is 42, drives a truck, lives in my parents basement, has a cat, and breaths like Darth Vader.
He did save all my pictures when my pc crashed so I dont totally hate him...
Hi from SITS- Im gonna follow because I like your style!
The title of this post had me hooked right from the SITS roll call page. I think your creeper tops all of mine, but I used to go to Wendy's a lot (and I mean almost every other day.. sick, I know), there was this creepy older big guy who works the grill who would always stare at me THROUGH the drive-through window. so creepy. I hadn't been there in a really long time (I broke the fast-food diet habit), but I went about a month ago and he still works there.. *shudder*
I am paranoid when it comes to people staring at me, so if a creep like this kept staring at me, I would have turned into a nervous wreck.
I guess the best way to deal with people like this is to pretend they don't exist!
This would have totally freaked me out...totally creepy and scary!
Sorry I don't know what's come over me!won't happen again I promise!
Hahahahaa. Atleast you get free shoes out of it, right? :)
I absolutely thought you were posting a pic of Riff Raff! I tend to creep, so they say. I'm thinking why post profile pages on FB if you don't want people to look at them!
Totally creepy! I've had my share of creepers around, I just try really really hard not to make eye contact!
Visiting from SITS...can't say I recall any uber creepy guys like that. I'm sure there have been a few :)
The free shoes is nice though.
Ahhhh, my brother Ricky... people used to think we were twins.
Goodness... I'm not sure what is creepier, the free shoes or the bowling pin with magic markers or knowing you by your mannerisms...
I can't say I recall ever having a "secret admirer" of this umm.. caliber. I do remember a waitress at a pizza hut where/when I went to college that deliberately burned the pizza she served me on four different occassions just so she could have them "make me another one" and force me to stay seated at the restaruant longer. She eventually "confessed up" and gave me her phone number... which I quickly got rid off.
Stopping by from SITS!
I work for a computer repair/sales shop. We are more or less a mom & pop type operation. I have tons of free time on my hands (awesome bosses)..Anywho...lol...we have this one old guy who is in his late 70's who brings his computer in once a month for in his words, "A complete clean up." And he is a creeper. You know those polyester jumpsuit one piece things old dudes wear? yep. His are marroon. ALWAYS marroon..with the gold buckle ::shudder::
He walks in and he can't carry in his computer himself, I have to do it for him, but he opens the doors and is RIGHT behind me...like if I moved a milimeter backward his hand is on my butt.
Complete creep
But he makes us money...so what do you do??
I actually find the mannerisms thing non-creepy. I mean... he does work at a bowling alley. and you went there a lot. The fact that he hit on you when you were 15freaks me out though. A lot.
I have a creeper! He's a security guard at my office. He has told me I look like a movie star, he calls me "wera" (Mexican for a blonde/white girl) even though we've never really spoken much before, and my coworkers have caught him "leering" at me. Once he gave me a creepy lecture on responsability when I forgot my key card. ("Please, Laura... you need to be DISCIPLINED. DISCIPLINE, Laura, please. DISCIPLINE.) WTF? I try to avoid him.
Creepy bowling guy totally wants to have your babies.
When I was 15 there was this MUCH older guy who worked at the local Walgreens who was seriously scary. He would follow me around and flirt with me, and once asked me on a date. I was 15. He had to be at least 40.
I said no to the date and he never talked to me again.
Eek! Creepy. But yay for free bowling shoes!
Wow! Seriously creepy about the 15 yr old getting hit on thing. I've had my share of creepy guys most where at my old jobs.
Ummmmmm...the mannerisms thing? Totally weird and definitely creepy. Oh, and the hitting on 15 year old girls when you're 40 doesn't help either.
I can't think of a creeper at the moment, but I do have "annyoing coffee shop girl." I go to the same coffee shop pretty much ever morning, because it is in the lobby of the buildign I work in. This girl is absolutely obsessed with my eye shadow. She asked one day how/when I decide to switch colors--is it seasonally? does it depend on my mood?
I pretty much wear the same makeup every day, occasionally changing eye shadow colors, so I had no clue what to tell her. I mumbled something akin to "uhhhhh...yeah." So, when we changed from fall to winter, she was dying to know what the color would be. I mean, she liked the green, but she was so excited to see what winter would bring!
Now that the seasons have changed again, she keeps asking me what my next color will be. She can't stand the excitement. Every single morning, she fights to be the one to take my order, because she just needs to see my damn eye shadow.
Truth be told, I switch up the colors when I run out. I'm frugal like that. I keep about three colors on hand, and will alternate them depending on my mood sometimes, but mostly I stick with a color for months at a time. I was thinking of switching to something brighter for summer, but I'm gonna hold on as long as possible just to mess with coffee shop girl.
Ha ha! When I was a teen I worked in the mall. There was a guy who walked to the mall every day. I think he still does. He looks like an overweight Rick Moranis. He used to come into our store all the time and buy the smallest stuff and he would always touch my hand when he gave me the change to pay for his loot. He used to creep me out, but now that I am an adult I am pretty sure he is just a harmless guy who is mentally handicapped. He walked to the mall because he can't drive. But yeah, I used to be pretty scared of him.
when i was in high school (i grew up in nyc), i had my own personal homeless guy. he would always hold the door open for me at my favorite deli, and he wouldn't let anyone give me any crap. i always gave him my spare change, along with a lecture to use the change to buy food to feed his kids and not to buy crack to feed his crack habit. creeps love me.
Omg this is hilarious! What a creeper that would remember you by how you act. *Shudders*
I actually picked up a full fledged stalker during college- no fun. Just be careful that it doesn't go further.
Wow, that is creepy. I can't think of a creepy stalker I've ever had, which is something I guess I would have remembered, so I suppose I don't have one. How boring am I?
Oh my gosh, that picture!!! Crrrrrreeeeepy! =)
Just don't let him find out where you live. lol
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