You Got Wink'd

I can't remember why, but a couple months ago I was talking with someone and in the midst of making a joke, I winked at them. I'd brushed the incident under my emotional rug but it came back to me yesterday.

What a creepy thing to do. I wasn't thinking about winking - it just...happened. Eeegh.

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When is a wink OK? When a friendly, old ice cream man gives a kid an extra scoop of vanilla? When you're the star of the football team and you've obviously impressed the top cheerleader?

To be honest, the only person I can think of who could wink in a good way would be Indiana Jones. Like I'm Short Round and I've just asked him if we'll ever get to throw a baseball around together - "You bet, kid -" *wink.

Scuttling my theory is the fact that Indy is not a real person. Receiving a wink from Harrison Ford would just be odd, though I guess more welcome than getting one from Larry Flynt.

It's clear - the time of the wink has passed. Only pervs and Sarah Palin wink now and they need to find a new gesture to display their overt inhumanity.

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