Do old ladies find you charming?

So Andrew pointed out today that apparently I am charming to older ladies.

I was in Harvey's today with him, and we were standing in line, and ahead of us in a curved portion of the line were 3 older women (by that I mean, probably in their 40s or so, Andrew thinks one was in her 60s). I was playing around with my umbrella and it slipped and fell to the floor. Not flinching, I simply looked down at the fallen umbrella, bemused, and one of the women remarked in a playful manner, "well now you got everybody's attention". I smiled, picked up the umbrella and announced to the lineup, "well I just wanted everyone to realise that I am here, and I have an umbrella!"

I thought nothing more of the matter other than being kind of amusing, but Andrew was astonished and asked me afterward what happened. Apparently, the very moment I dropped that umbrella, before any commentary happened, these three women looked at me as though in love with me (in the sense that they connected and enjoyed me as a person, not in the romantic sense). I said, "oh, well maybe that's 'cause of my comments" and he said, "no! no! it was before all that. They were all totally responding to you! What did you do?"

ha ha ha ha ha!

What makes this more amusing is that this isn't the first time. A few years ago, to give an example, when I worked at the newspaper publisher, the women often made remarks about how I was only getting away with certain things I said or did because I was "too cute", or something like that. I remember I once was blanking out when a woman was explaining something she wanted me to do because I just didn't understand it, and, well I'm not proud of it, but I do that sometimes. Well she looks at me and says, "you know if you don't understand, you could just say so, but don't just ignore me" and then I must have reacted visually somehow to what she said, and I don't know if I smiled or was embarrassed or what I did, but then she reacted to me, as though defeated by something I did and said, "oh alright..." and started to walk back to her desk, "you know Steve, you can't expect to keep getting away with these things because of your charm and those looks". I was in total shock. What the heck was going on? More importantly, if I have this power over older women, then how on earth am I doing it? I want to exploit it!

Ha ha ha, I'm kidding of course. Though it is a tangled mystery to me and I would really like to know what this is I'm doing, and why it's only older women and never (or rarely) the younger ones!
This would have also been a really useful gift to have when I was actually looking to pursue women. Well... that is... if I worked out the kinks with the whole "older" women issue.

ah well. Onward! To priesthood! Huzzah!