There’s a really cute girl/woman who works at the coffee counter in the office complex where I work. I’d really like to ask her out, but for a few restrictive factors:
- I don’t know her. Except for when I order my tea, we’ve never talked. There’s usually too many people waiting in line to extend a conversation beyond the business transaction.
- I can’t tell if she might like me. We’ve exchanged smiles and waves across the concourse (I smile when I pass by, she smiles and waves back), but that just could be politeness.
- I’m shy, to the point of being a chicken-shit. ’nuff said.
- There’s nothing exciting going on in my life that I could invite her to. I think we should start with something better than the old “dinner and a movie” (especially since I’m pissed off at the prices of movies these days!), and somehow I don’t think she’d welcome an invitation to go shopping for building materials or to come over and help build my deck!
- She’s a lot younger than me… maybe even half my age. Would she be interested in going out with an old man, even if I do have purple hair sometimes!
So this morning as I came into the office and got my tea, it looked like she and the rest of her crew were having a lousy morning. It was really busy at the coffee counter, and most people seemed to be in a dazed, it’s-almost-the-weekend funk. I tried to be friendly and cheerful, but it didn’t seem to help.
Now I’d like to do something to cheer her up. But what to do? Maybe I’ll go down about mid-morning when I think it will be a little less harried– I should be ready for my next tea by then– go around the corner and get a little bouquet of flowers from the florist, and give them to her when I get my tea.
