The nerdling was trying his best to flirt, but the problem with talking to any guy in the Applied Sciences field was their idea of flirting was usually so socially inept that it had no relation with actual flirting as it was done in the real world. It didn’t help that most of their experience with flirting was theoretical. And tended to come from cartoons made in Japan which didn’t give them the best theoretical foundation for flirting with three dimensional women in the real world.
