I could never. I'd be down on all fours cooing at it.

I mean, he seemed a nice enough person when I randomly struck up a conversation with him (which he said "people don't generally do" )

After we finished that visit, he informed me he wasn't interested in getting together anymore. It was only at that point that I twigged that he apparently thought we were on a date.

•I• thought I was having tea with a potential new friend.

I guess we were both wrong!

I was once on what I later figured out was probably construed as a date, & I was delighting the density line between the unsugared tea infused water in the top half of my glass mug, & the denser, sweetened water in the bottom half. When I pointed this out to the waiter, who seemed similarly amused, the guy I was with said, "Don't get out much, do ya?"

I was a bit gobsmacked, to be honest.

@futurebird is summoned

I was like, buddy, you're really not stopping to check out the ants? You're not even slightly curious what they're up to? I'm pretty excited about any ant I see.

If there were lizards where I live, I would of course be thrilled by them too. (I greatly enjoyed geckos during a trip to Indonesia as a child.)

When I lived on the Gulf coast we had green anoles running around the house, they never bothered me at all, kept their poop to themselves and carried away insect carcasses.
Would cohabit with again.