How to Let Him Know You're There

27 Get a part-time job in a convention bureau. 28 Change apartments from time to time. 29 When traveling, stay at small hotels where it is easier to meet strangers. 30 Learn to paint. Set up easel outside engineering school. HOW TO LET HIM KNOW YOU’RE THERE 31 Stumble when you walk into a room that he’s in. 32 Forget discretion every once in a while and call him up. 33 Carry a hatbox. 34 Wear a Band-Aid. People always ask what happened.

A cropped page from a humorous advice list gives increasingly conspicuous ways for a woman to make a man notice her, including carrying a hatbox and wearing a Band-Aid to invite questions. The joke is the absurdly elaborate, indirect escalation of trying to attract his attention, making it useful as a reaction to overcomplicated flirting or awkward social strategies. EN: A cropped page from a humorous advice list gives increasingly conspicuous ways for a woman to make a man notice her, including carrying a hatbox and wearing a Band-Aid to invite questions. The joke is the absurdly elaborate, indirect escalation of trying to attract his attention, making it useful as a reaction to overcomplicated flirting or awkward social strategies.

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