Right Here Waiting
It is just another day in the life of mine. I have to get up and get ready to go work as the manager for a high end restaurant downtown Tucson. The skies are blue and the sun is beating down without the humidity of the Midwest states so a tshirt and a button up is all I will need today. The drive was safe but now I’m at work and I have to get busy. Break time has finally come around so I will turn the lights off and lock everything up for a couple hours since we close from 2:30-4:30. As manager I am in charge of hiring and I have been struggling to find some good hosts. We have a couple male hosts and I think a couple female hosts would bring a good balance to the work environment. Oh, I know! I’ll go get lunch and while I’m on my break I can visit some retail stores to see if there are any employees looking for another job or to replace their current place of employment. I think I’ll start off at my favorite barbecue joint and am going to get whole slab of ribs. Their ribs are absolutely to die for! The workers behind the counter are nice, but there weren’t any that fit my criteria to be a host. No luck there so I’m going to hop on over to this small bakery in the same strip mall for dessert. I am ordering this pastry called a bear claw and it has pecans, cinnamon, as well as icing on it. I just looked up after my third bite or so and noticed what looked to be a beautiful smiling face under her mask. I am now eating my pasty as fast as humanly possible in order to get the chance to talk to her before she gets in line to order her food. “Hi, my name is Robert” is what I managed to muster up to say to this stranger. She just looked up at me and with her welcoming eyes said, “Hi. I really like your hair!” I thanked her for her compliment and informed her about my goal to hire a few more hostesses at my restaurant, but she kindly let me know that she was happy with her current position which just so happened to be at my favorite bbq joint. I gave her the card to the restaurant and my phone number just in case she knew someone looking for a job. It has been about 30 minutes since I met that girl at the bakery and I received a text saying, “Hey, it’s me from the bakery and I just wanted to let you know that I really appreciated your job offer and that I thought you were really nice as well.” I thanked her and went back to work without thinking much of it. Finally, I’m off work and back home and something came over me to text her again. After about thirty minutes of conversation I realized that this girl is really really cool so I asked to FaceTime her and she agreed, reluctantly. We ended up talking for nearly 3 hours with ease! Just got off the phone with her and it’s nearly 3 in the morning. I don’t know how to feel, because I have never met a woman like this in my life before that shows interest in me. I figured it’s best for me to not overthink anything and just hit the hay.