So Friday we go out to lunch, as per usual. After lunch, also as per usual, we go by Liquid Highway to get some coffee. The cutie is working, yet again as per usual. After she hands us our drinks, I lean over and go “Excuse me”. I can practically hear Matt groan “Oh no, what now?”. I ask her “So what’s your name, so we can stop calling you the cute coffee chick?”. She smiles happily, blushes a little, and tells me “Alecia”.
On the way back to the office, Matt tells me “Thata boy! I’d buy you a beer if I wouldn’t get arrested for it.” When we finally get back, he tells all the other guys in the department. All weekend, I can’t stop thinking about her, and actually can’t wait to go back to work Monday morning, just so I can see her cute smiling face again (I know, what am I, 12?).
So Monday after lunch, we go to Liquid Highway. Once again, she’s working the register, instead of making the coffee as she usually does. Since Byron went with us, I’m in the back, rather than the front like I was Friday with just Matt. As we pull away, I’m busy looking at her through the tinted windows, when Matt turns half way around and goes “So did you see what was on that left hand?”. Byron instantly says “Oh yeah”. Apparently she had a big ring on her finger.
I was crushed. In an instant, my entire dream and fantasy worlds both collapsed in on me at the same time. This incredible girl, the embodiment of everything that is “cute” in the universe, is married (or at least engaged). My life is suddenly without meaning, without purpose, without direction. Everything seems paled in comparison to the catastrophic devastation that has taken up residence in my heart.
If God himself had parted the clouds, leaned down, pointed a finger at me, and banished me to Hell without A/C and only dial-up internet, I wouldn’t have been as crushed as I was at that moment.
Really thought, why am I surprised? She was the cutest girl I’ve ever seen in my entire life. Why would I think that she would be unattached? I fell for her without ever having any real conversation with her. How could I expect her to be available? Ugh. How depressing.
Engaged means nothing… Nothing. Don’t let that get in your way. SO why would old boy go to jail for buying you a beer, is he under 21 or you? Dude, if you kick this much a33 and you’re under 21, all I can say is very well done!
I gotta get over to the coffe place and see alecia now - snap a picutre if you can in the meantime
And BTW, Hell definitely has only dialup
It’s interesting to see how many people have told me not to worry about engagement. I figured engagement is as good as marraige, but apparently engagement is totally different. It’s like the trial period where everyone decides if they’re happy in their current job positions, or if they just don’t fit in this “company”… I like that. It gives me hope!
BTW, he’d go to jail because I’m under 21. I just turned 20 last Sunday (the 8th). I’m a young’un.
And Alecia is no longer at Liquid Highway. While I was sick last week (or was that the week before?), they had a note on the board outside that she’d gotten an internship at some company. I keep telling everyone here that we need to start getting slav… erm, interns, but they don’t listen!