What happened was this:
I learned to flirt
in a brash untempered way.
No control
like a fan of flirting,
blasting air in some direction
not exactly clear on my target
unsure of intent.

I was still in school
so I was supposed to be learning
I guess
but I was in college
so maybe this should have been old hat.
Anyway, I told her she should smile more
and she took a shine to me
but so did a couple of her hallmates.

I’m such a successful player
that it all worked out really well
in the end.
It took months
but it all eventually untangled.

None of them talk to me now
but then again it’s decades later
and who talks to me now anyway?

So what happened is this:
I lived.
I tried.
Nobody died
yet.