"I wasn't nervous or anything but I was one of those passerby situations in which I just didn't really know what was going on, was walking somewhere and then boom! I shrugged it off, saying to myself "I didn't plan on doing much but observing tonight anyway..." but I admitted to myself that was just a cop out. "
I HAAAAATE when I do that to myself. It happens all the time and makes me want to bludgeon my own skull with a two-by-four until I pass out. As I've grown older I've become comfortable, even skillful, with talking to the opposite sex, at least when it's in a relaxed, mostly static setting. For some reason though, I just CAN'T deal with those "on the fly" chance meetings that hold what could be possibly HUGE opportunity, but scare me away because I'm not allowed time to think and rationalize the situation.
(Was going to make that a post, but then I realized I was in a gaming thread. XD So.... there you go!)