When Yes Means No

Thanks to the wonders of Match.com and my monthly supply of crisp pound notes, I’ve recently started chatting to a rather pleasant and attractive woman. She doesn’t live too far away from me and, in a rather surprising move, she actually started things off by sending me a wink.

But what makes this all the more interesting is that I’d already noticed her profile, marked her as a favourite and planned to contact her over the following days. So I was rather shocked when she beat me to it and actually initiated things with a wink. Sure, a message would have been nice but let’s face it, what other form of encouragement does a bloke need?

Anyway, I think I’ve finally started to become more tuned in to this message chit-chat mechanism and I can usually pick up the good and bad signs from what is essentially an emotionally sterile e-mail. So, when the lady in question finishes off her last e-mail of seven days ago with “Will be in touch soon”, am I to translate this as “You won’t be hearing from me again” or is her lack of contact due to something genuine?

So, the question arises, do I give her up and put it down to yet more experience, or do I look a bit desperate and send her another message? And there’s me thinking I’d finally worked out the mind of a woman.