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I get a birthday card in the mail from <PERSON> (who in real life did not wish me a Happy Birthday on Facebook). I open it and it is addressed to someone else, a "Michelle", and it is a Happy 16th birthday message. He has also written her a lengthy note about how he used to babysit her and how much she is grown. He is put her full name and phone number at the bottom. Turns out to be the same phone number of a party I am supposed to be at. Then I am at work and I get into a conversation with my supervisor (a friend as well) that <PERSON> quite obviously expects me to call this <PERSON> and tell her I have the card and ask if she has the card <PERSON> was to have sent me, if there is one. In that way, I will have reinitiated contact. (In real life I have made it a New Year's resolution not to do so and to wait until he initiates things this time.) I remark that it is not going to work, no matter how tempting it is to find out whether <PERSON> did in fact send me a card. My supervisor remarks that this is what very attractive <PERSON> men do - manipulate things so that it is the ladies who are pursuing them. A fear grips me that perhaps if this is the case with <PERSON>, he does not have a clue how to pursue a woman he likes. Moreover, if he is scared to, he might never initiate anything. Then I get distracted by a surly server's refusal to give me a lunch I had ordered one hour ago (before this intense conversation had begun) wherein I yell at the server and go to McDonald's. They have a quarter-pounder all ready for me.