Silly Mini-Crushes
 

Ever have sort of a "mini-crush" on someone -- I can't think of any other word for it. Could be a friend, could be someone of the opposite sex, whatever -- you admire them, you think about how cute/handsome/interesting they are, love the way they talk, think about them a lot, even though this is not a person you're ever going to pursue romantically. Either they are married or you are, or they're the same gender as you and you're not into that -- just someone real interesting. Whew!

For example, there's this guy I see often at my son's wrestling practices. He is not the kind of guy I would normally be attracted to, but for some reason I can't stop staring at him thinking that in another life, I might be going after him. He looks...I dunno...just GOOD. Like someone that would wrap me up in his arms and keep all the bad stuff away, smell wonderful and give me compliments over glasses of Merlot at dinner. But alas, I am already married, and mostly happily so. I guess it just intrigues me that I was unexpectedly attracted to someone who is so not what I'd usually be looking for.

And then there's my daughter's cheer coach, who is just yummy. He reminds me of Desi Arnaz, and also of that guy Caesar Milan, the dog whisperer guy - call Victor the "cheerleader whisperer," LOL! He's just awesome. Always a smile and a "how are you," using my name, which I'm surprised he remembers. He's very hard on the girls, but they all love him. Just to hear him say "Come on, ladies..." and it sounds like "leddies..." with his accent; you might expect him to say "you got some 'splainin' to do." :) Just too delish.

I could also add my DH's best friend...he too is latino, but I don't think it's a pattern with me. ;) He's just a very impulsive, passionate, lively guy, and I think it's that combined with his eternal gullibility, hope, naivete that makes me love him - he's such a handsome fellow, but he's such a kind soul that he lets people walk all over him. He's lived in a different city for about ten years now, but my hubby still loves him like a brother, and so do I. We usually only see him at Christmas, and I find myself really looking forward to it - I can't seem to take my eyes off him, when he comes to town, to study every new wrinkle in his face, see how he's changed. Of course maybe I'm not looking so much at him, but at him as a representation of how we all have changed in a year.

I've had girl crushes too, but these are the two that I'm thinking of now. You know, this is just meant to be a happy thread about people in your life that attract you for whatever reason, but not necessarily in a sexual way, just by virtue of being fascinating people.

Got any?

I should have probably posted this here. sorry juni

http://cellar.org/showpost.php?p=515446&postcount=4

Wow, and none of you ladies have even met me yet!

Oh dear, I am terrible for little crushes. They come and go (said the actress to the bishop).

I've little crushes on people everywhere, all the time. I also am fiercely loyal to crushes I should let go of...once I put someone up on that pedestal...it's tough for me to take them down. I've got a crush for nearly every day of the week and long-lasting crushes that I've tended like a warm, glowing, warm-glow, for years.

Yah. I like this guy:
http://www.aceshowbiz.com/images/pho...ian_murphy.jpg

:D

Meh--he's too young and too pretty. He looks like a goil.

I think everyone gets crushes now and then. Mostly they don't get acted upon but I guess the ones that do turn into affairs.

For myself, I sometimes do think about what life might be like with one person or another if I'd made different choices, but in the end what blows the whole thing for me is the fact that I'm just so happy and grateful to have the life I really have.

It's kinda nice knowing that it's better than a fantasy.

I have a crush on xoxoxobruce.

But it is not silly.

richlevy is married, and therefore, by my personal rules, not crush-able.

But he is a very good friend.:grouphug:

Being poly has allowed me to *finally* pursue a couple of these. It was glorious, thanks.

Yeah, I crush heaps.

Im very childish in the fact that I crush majorly on hollywood characters. I know....I blow...but who doesnt want their very own Lucas Scott or Clark Kent (Tom Welling style).

My latest real life crush is this very very hot Belgium backpacker who bought a car off me and has made excuses ever since to stay in contact.

I mean he's like 12 (well, 22), but he has an accent, and he's a backpacker, so has his shirt off heaps...and he has an accent!

The boys at work always comment on the fact that he stands very close to me, apparently coz he's 6'2, thats so he can perve down my top :)

I have crushes all the time.
My longest has been on all the members of The League of Gentlemen, to whom I have a totally teenage fangurl devotion. Did I tell you I'm going to see them at the British Film Institute in January? Swoon!

My Cellar crushes are Bruce and LJ. You see unlike Wolf I accept crushes on married men because lets face it, they're crushes and won't go anywhere.

I don't have a crush on anyone in my life now because I simply don't meet anyone with potential. Well, there was that barman, but I can't be sitting around in pubs these days. Oh and that really cute lad in Waterstones made me melt, but he was about 12 (okay 20) and I felt dirty.

I do get female crushes too. My last one was on my friend who now lives in Kenya. I still miss her in a way that's not really appropriate to a friend. It was different to a male crush, which for me will at least accept the suggestion of a bit of rumpy pumpy at some point. I never wanted to have sexual contact with her, not even a kiss. But I did adore her, and do little things to make her laugh, and treasured the fact that we had a shortcut into eachother's humour. She was just a wonderful person, and I think most of the office had some sort of crush on her anyway. I felt like a Morlock next to her, but hoped some of her radiance might show me in a better light.

I've got a huge crush on one of the women on my coed team. She is exactly the girl I went for from age 15-25. Petite but tough italian girl with a heart of gold. Our families spend a lot of time together and we're great friends so everyone is aware of my crush. I announced to her husband and my wife that if we're ever at a soccer tournament and a plane happens to crash killing just her husband and mrs L that I would probably find it in my heart to court her. for the childrens' sake, of course.

This brought me out of my hole...

Ohhhhh Yeah! Got a couple... This cute, petite gal at the local grocery store, very nice looking, always friendly and a beautiful smile. Calls me by name! :heartpump

Another that lives out of town. She's a family friend of my BIL. Very friendly, has these eyes that could melt any man's heart, and an ass! OMG!!! What an ass! :eek:

Yes, I'm a guy and I've had a mini-crush on an attorney in my office since I started working here 16 years ago. I think it's a mutual thing because she winks at me every time we pass in the hall, calls me honey and sweetheart, etc. We're both married though, so nothing could ever come of it.

She calls you Madman?

I have a mini crush on the propane delivery guy. Partly because he is cute and partly because he is the only male besides my husband who I have seen and spoken to in 3 weeks.

That explains why you keep turning up the heat.

Does he sell propane accessories? :D

It also explains why my husband puts the thermostat at 52 degrees every morning.

No, the sales guy is not nearly as "mountainy" and cute as the delivery guy...he probably sells accessories. The delivery guy, though, all he does is pump gas into the tank...and flirt with housewives.

LOL!!! Good one!

My crushes aren't mini, so I have to avoid them. My crushes are astronomical. Like for example, let's say, for the sake of discussion, that I had a crush on Shawnee123, the area around me would become so dense from the crushing force that it would basically create a black hole and it would suck up the entire universe and spit it out in an alternate dimension. Except everything in that dimension would be all facacta, like Jinx would start talking like tw, and tw would be posting videos of him and his mum on the couch. Zengum would be clodfobble's au pair. It would be a mess. So I just don't do it.

Don't make me use my outside voice.

Sorry guys, I'm just not sure how I missed this post the last time around......

Does this universe also mean you will talk like flint, and flint will somehow manage to remain being flint?

Flint and I are both sockpuppets of Griff. I thought you knew that.

But did you know I am Cloud's sockpuppet? That is the question.

;)

I thought Griff was cloud's sockpuppet.

I have a crush on my sockpuppet.

-s + c....?

That explains why you're both so sticky.

:lol:

Sorry, don't know what's gotten into me lately. :blush:

I get crushes. Haven't had one in a while though. Want one. :D

Yah I want a crush. It just feels good. A real one though...

Have one on me.
 

(Follow me, don't follow me)
I've got my spine, I've got my orange crush

-R.E.M.

Every now and then I love an orange crush. Other orange sodas don't cut it. Yum.

Stewart's Orange Cream

Orangina

I first had Orangina when I was 11 and was taken to Alton Towers by a friend for her birthday treat. It's an amusement park and was out of my parents' reach both geographically - with no car - and financially thanks to the entrance fees.

My classmate was the youngest of an Irish family with four older brothers. Funny how even those not practising contraception (apparently) always ended with a child of the opposite sex to their many siblings :) She was slightly spoilt, but endlessly good-natured by being sat on by the nearest two brothers in age. She invited me because she didn't really have a "best friend" and thought I'd be fun and up for it. Imagine her dismay when we parked and I staggered round to the back of the car and was sick. She thought that was the whole day shot!

Nah - I was at ALTON TOWERS! You could even see the log flume from the carpark in those days. I was just carsick, being used to long journeys.

Back to Orangina! We met up at a specified time to have a picnic, because that's what you did in those days. The Toals had money, but they weren't vulgar. So we had the sort of food I'd never had before (including pate which I thought was paste) and cold potatoes (WFT?) and to drink... Wow! It was like a cross between fresh orange and fizzy water! It wasn't like orange and lemonade, or squash or anything made by Soda Stream!

It blew me away. The first ever bottle I saw for sale locally, I saved up my pocket money for and took home triumphantly to share with everyone. Who just didn't seem as excited as I was by it. I figured it must have been the setting. And a day that was 95% perfect - because of the sick and the fact I tried to order dessert at the same time as main course in the motorway restaurant on the way home and felt horribly embarrassed by it.

I only know about Orangina because I heard it was good for speed cramps, but I like your story better, Sundae!

I love your stories SG, i can't remember my childhood in that kind of detail at all. Or atleast I'm no good at relaying the details.

My first Orangina was in France. Lourdes to be precise. It was the only drink apart from water that the little ice cream vans sold. I loved it. But mainly because of the gorgeous little bottle, with its label all in French. I'd never seen it in the UK, though this would have been a couple of years after you were drinking it in Alton Towers lol.

Btw. Alton Towers. How exciting was that? Fuck we were easily pleased lol.

Hey, I like that song. I like early REM too tho'. No I don't listen anymore....I'm a dweeb. I know.

Now that I wanted a crush and one is developing, I don't want it anymore. Too much doubt and enthusiasm. I hate it when I am enthusiastic because I just seem stupid. Other people are awesome when they are enthusiastic. I just don't play it well.