Alacrity

The uncomfortable hazards of being a research assistant:

Every once in a while, during our psych experiments, a participant tries to put the moves on one of the research assistants. It hasn't happened to me, but I'd rather count it as a blessing than try to understand why I don't have what it takes to get asked out by random weirdos.

Top Three weird-participant moments:
3. Sometimes they write their observations on their note paper. One such comment: "The researcher is hot, in a nerdy-girl sort of way." The RA in question erased the comment super-fast, but I still read it and laughed at her.

2. "So, what's your sign?" One participant used this line, followed by "Taurus? I'm a Leo, maybe we should hang out sometime." The RA was like "uhhhh, I'm not really allowed to" and hustled him out.

1. Preface: one of our ability tests is the diagramming relationships test. One of our RAs is a FASET (freshman orientation) leader who knew some of our participants through that program. One of those participants wrote her a little love note (with his phone number included):
Becky, when are you and I going to diagram OUR relationship?