More actively creepy than a lurker, yet less malicious than a legit creeper. The slinker is the basically the Vanilla
Coke of the Three Stages of Creeping (where the lurker is Diet Coke and the creeper is a Coke and Rum spiked with a roofie).
The slinker is prone to hovering, staring, and
awkward flirting, yet will never force a girl into hooking up. When spurned by a prospect, which is often, the slinker will simply slink off into a corner to sulk, rather than increasing his creeper agenda--that is, until he finds a new prospect. Although generally doomed to a series of
epic fails, the slinker occasionally scores big.
A slinker, with intensive therapy,
may become a normal human being, while creepers are beyond all
hope.
Many of the little misfits on The
Pick-Up
Artist may be considered slinkers....whereas Mystery, the host, is a straight up creeper.
