Flirting, Or Friendly Conversation??

Last night me and the husband and kids went to good old Wal-Mart. Hey, we need excitement too! As well as toothpaste. Anyway, we managed to accumulate all of our necessities, which always seem to total at least a hundred dollars, which we can ill afford. We proceed to checkout.

Ox and kids stand idly by while I control the debit machine. Our checker is a young man about 20ish. He is very nice. Comments on my movie purchase (The Princess Bride, love it). He loves it too! Insert shared laughter about key film parts. Now we discuss the crazy weather. It's hot, it's cold. Dang, I had to start a fire last night, and was wearing cutoffs yesterday, what's up with the bipolar weather??

Purchases made, leave the store. Now we are driving home. Yee Haw...Def Leppard concert on the radio. Wait, no, he's turning it off. I was listening to that you know.

"It was fun watching that kid hit on you," he tells me. What? He was not!! "Yes, he was," says the peanut gallery in the backseat (thanks Slim). I explain we were simply having a friendly conversation and no one was hitting on anyone. I proceed to say that I have conversations such as those several times a day with customers at work. "So, guys hit on you all day?" he asks. Ummm...ok, now what do I say? NO ONE hit on me!! He insists differently. Well, I say, if he was flirting with me than I was flirting with him too as were both enjoying the conversation. "Yes, you were flirting too," he says.

Now what do I say? I thought it was a nice, fun conversation. The boy was young enough to almost be my son. Well, not quite, but young anyway.

So, my question is this: what's the difference between flirting and friendly conversation? Is there a difference? If so, am I skanky and flirty with the boys/men? Where's the dang line? How do I know when I cross it?

So, then I had to do a repair job. He's wondering why his wife and the Wal-Mart clerk are flirting right in front of him. And I'm wondering why he's so uptight because I enjoy conversing with people. And if the conversation I had with that person was flirtatious then I am sorry to say I do flirt daily, and not only with the boys!!

Sissy