Hmm, yes, flirting. I can’t read the signs, unless they’re on poster board printed in large letters.

I gave my wife Deb an example how civilian women seemed silly and helpless to me after 14 years of dealing with strong Navy women.

ME: So she asked me to get a box from a shelf that was maybe head height. And wasn’t that heavy.
DEB: She was flirting with you, Jackster.
ME: What? Well, she just came off looking stupid!
DEB: It’s a girl thing, honey. We give you big masculine men a chance to impress little dainty women. Like when we ask you to change a tire.
ME: I am much more impressed by a woman who changes her own tire. Or knows to call AAA.

When I posted this in Medium (one of my “Chats with Deb”) the female comments were yeah, we do that. Even with husbands, just so they can feel “manly.” “It’s kind of like foreplay, sometimes. Gets the testosterone flowing.”

😳🙄

So, flirting. Basically yet another yes check mark in my “you may be demisexual if” column.