"Not Now Maybe Later"

[iggy]

Depends on the person. For me, there's a huge chance that that sort of answer would actually just mean "maybe later" and that I was too chicken and hadn't worked up the nerve to do it yet.

Sometimes I need to be cajoled carefully into things even when I really want to do them. That's when it helps if the person asking you already knows you. It also probably helps if you are more comfortable in the real life scene than I am.

Of course if some complete stranger was hounding me every five minutes, the no would definitely mean no, but I'd also tend to be on the lookout for the person and run in the opposite direction whenever I saw him.

I so suck at just saying "no, go away".