u/All_out_ofBubblegum1

So I'm on the spectrum and social interactions are my kryptonite so I am historically terrible at realizing when someone is into me. Usually, I only find out because a friend or family member literally has to spell it out for me. But lately, a guy I work with has been doing some stuff that has me wondering if he's actually trying to flirt.

We have a really small team at my job, but I’ve noticed I'm the person he talks to the most by far. It pretty much started when he found out we share some kind of obscure interests. He got super excited and started talking to me way more, and he’s been making a lot more jokes around me lately too.

The things that really threw me off happened recently. The other day, he walked with me all the way to this cafe around the corner to get lunch. It’s a spot all of us coworkers go to all the time for a quick bite, and we usually go in groups if we have a minute. So I totally assumed he was getting food too, but he didn't buy a single thing. He literally just tagged along just to walk and talk with me.

Then, several times he waited around at the end of the day and walked with me out to my car.

To me, just chatting or being nice is regular coworker stuff, but waiting around and walking with me for no real reason feels different. Am I totally overthinking this, or does it sound like he's trying to show he likes me?

An incident at my current job today reminded me of this story from when I worked in retail.

To this day, I am still stunned by what happened.

I was working at a video game store and came in an hour before opening to help set up. The main store lights are automatic and don't turn on until 10 minutes before opening. We also keep the security gate partially lowered (to make it easier to pull up for employees coming in), and the store stays locked until we open.

So, I arrived, my manager unlocked the door to let me in, and lowered the gate back down. We were probably about 20 minutes into setting up and organizing inventory when we started hearing a loud thudding noise, quickly followed by a bang. As we turned to the front doors, we saw a man crawling underneath the gate to get into the store!

My manager and I didn't even say anything because we were too stunned to speak. The guy just started wandering around the store looking at things.After a good minute of stunned silence, my manager finally spoke up and asked, "Excuse me, sir, what are you doing?"

The man turned, looked at us with a confused expression, and said, "What?"

My manager looked at me with a bewildered expression, turned back to the man, and said, "We're closed."

The man, for some unfathomable reason, replied, "What, you guys aren't open?"

Aren't open?! Aren't open?! AREN'T OPEN?!

Not only were the majority of the lights off, but you forced open a locked door and crawled under a gate!

Luckily, the man left without a fuss, and kudos to my manager because he made him crawl back under that gate to leave.

Something I really can't understand is why he felt the need to be there first thing in the morning. There wasn't some kind of big release happening—it was just a regular day at the game store. And he didn't even come back to the store!

As of late I have a coworker who talks a lot is not only interrupting mine and others work, but it's starting to lead to some anger amongst my coworkers.

I'm not talking about striking up a conversation during breaks or when someone's trying to do work. She specifically does it when we're in a group setting like a meeting.

She talks a lot asks a lot of questions that most of the time are unnecessary or has a long winded way of asking or answering questions.

It reminds me of the person who you say goodbye to on the phone and they say goodbye too but still keep talking.

At first it wasn't really noticeable because we had like 1 or 2 meetings a month but we've been working on a big project so we have 1 or 2 per week now, and it's becoming apparent.

The incident that made me write this is before the meeting started-it was her turn to run the meeting as we were discussing her portion-and she wanted to ask people how they were doing and do like a powwow, one of our coworkers just straight up said "No, can we just start the meeting?"

She kept pressing even asking about things like "How are things at home? How are your kids?"

And she might not have known that he was a pretty private guy and he visibly went from annoyed to angry.

We managed to finally get The meeting started late minding, and then it ran longer than it was supposed to because she kept talking. At one point one of coworker just said "oh for f***k's sake", I'm not sure if she just didn't hear it or ignored it because she didn't react to it.

Now though I've heard some coworkers talking that they're going to go to our supervisor about her.

Overall I don't want her to get in trouble. Aside that she's a good worker and her work is good.

I'm wondering if I can talk to her to point out the over talking so she can reel it back and not be reported?

How would I go about that?