Helping out my brother one rainy morning we were at this dealership while he tried finding a new car. He went on a test drive of a third and final car while I decided to wait behind.
Sitting in the showroom of the dealership while waiting for him people were hustling around and trying to sell cars, shuffle paperwork and answer incoming calls. I happened to pay attention to the receptionist but was distracted for a few minutes.
When I looked back there was a different one working the front desk that was extremely pretty and seemed really sweet. She was talkative to everyone that walked by and looked at me a couple of times finally saying hello but with a big smile and earnest eyes. I figured she only said hi because I was rude and stared at her pretty smile, adorable long wavy hair and a full figured shape which had many curves to it.
I told myself a number of times, even though I am much too old for her, "She is a heckuva catch. I wonder if she is dating anyone." Then I told myself "Who am I kidding. She is too attractive not to be seeing someone" and let it alone. I picked up a magazine while waiting for my brother, looked up and saw she was looking my way again. "Whoa cool beans" as my heart rate went up a few too many points.
I smiled back at her but she looked down right away; I did too. I wished she would have stared at me so I could feel both the euphoric and timid emotions simultaneously. I looked back at her, but she disappeared. I looked around and didn't see her.
I thought "Man how is it someone her age be so darn cute?" She wasn't some twenty year old. She looked closer to 30 to me. I looked around and there she was coming around a corner looking right towards me and when she saw I was looking at her smiled she put on an unbelievable smile. I melted. I could have fallen down if I was standing up.
My whole body riveted with pangs of excitement. I tingled like I hadn't tingled about a female in years. Being married once before, but no children thankfully, I knew the emotions but hadn't experienced them in about 9 years.
I had to talk to her, but she was busy as ever answering phones. I wanted to see when she got off work so I could see if she would go out for lunch or for that matter why not dinner.
I tried to see if there was a ring on her finger. I couldn't blatantly walk up, lean over or even stand there to check it out, so I decided to do something equally blatant but on the sly at the same time.
I went to a salesman down a corridor and asked him if the beautiful receptionist was attached to anyone. He roared out laughing. I blushed a beet red. I was as red as a ripened tomato.
He looked my way once he settled down, I looked around seeing everyone's looking at us and I heard "Buddy you and a hundred guys have asked that same question. But I have never ever seen anyone get the guts to talk to her." "She is pretty isn't she" he added "if you like that sort of woman that is."
Instantly I thought "What did he mean by that? Because she is a full figured woman" I wanted to ask. I didn't know him and he didn't know me. I wouldn't see the guy again so I went ahead and asked "Why because she is a full..."
"Yep" he said cutting me off. "You, me and hundreds of others have felt that way about her. But me, I am a married man plus I am too old for her."
I asked how old she was and he said "31, is that too old for you? Like them younger do you?"
I laughed and nodded my head no and thanked him and walked back to a chair. She had disappeared and the older woman was back working the receptionist desk. I saw my brother come back. He found the car he thought he liked and was going to test drive it for two days.
My work was done. I did my duty. I was hungry so I said goodbye and headed back to my place. I decided to stop at a fast food restaurant. It was busy but I had a taste for a good old fashioned cheeseburger. Having received my order I promptly found a small table against a window. Looking outside I drifted off the fantasyland and thought about me, her and together at some amusement park. Off and on I would see myself walking with her holding hands and laughing about everything under the sun. Finally I told myself it was fleeting thought and to blow off the idea. Move on and get a life.
Picking up my drink to swallow down my food someone bumped into me making me almost spill the drink. "Oh I am so sorry sir" a sweet tender voice said from behind me. "I am so sorry; I didn't mean to bump into you" and I turned around.
I looked straight ahead and a big woman stood behind me as my eyes naturally looked upwards and when my eyes reached the face that belonged to the nice figure fireworks went off inside me. My heart blew a gasket. I know my blood pressure soared and I couldn't smile I was so ecstatic that she was standing there behind me.
"Ohhhh hiiiiiiiiii" she asked excitedly. "You're from... weren't you just over at the..."
"Yep how are you" I asked her while looking at her as if she was a Hollywood star. Finally I was able to muster and earnest smile. I felt a heated tingling rushing all through me. Quickly I invited her to seat with me. "I've got nothing going on today. Go on sit down I'd love your company."
She declined but my mind was on overdrive and I insisted. "Well if you insist" she said as her face lit up. "Then your wish or insistence is my command sir" and the ways he said it only made me feel like I was hers forever. I was her slave and I'd do anything to make the woman happy.
I smiled what seemed like forever as she talked. Before we knew it she had to go back to work. I didn't know her name and she didn't know mine. Other then she has been working there for about a year and a half and she was 31 and a few other basics we knew nothing except one thing.
"We really liked each other a lot. We clicked. There was a huge spark which could be considered a potentially romantic spark. There I was telling myself I wanted to ask her if we could make out right then and there. There I was telling myself to ask her to marry her on the spot. I did not care. I knew deep in my heart I was in love with the woman.
But life doesn't happen that way. Life does not work that way. It just doesn't. We finished our food and the bounce in her step wasn't there like it was at the dealership. It wasn't there like it probably was when she got to the fast food place. She wasn't sulking or despondent but something seemed wrong. She didn't have a sad expression on her face but she walked out slower then she usually walked around from what I quickly gathered from when I saw he walking around at work.
"Hey are you okay" I asked.
"Yeah I'm fine" as her voice trailed off a little. I didn't believe her.
"I had... I loved having lunch with you... by the way I am Dan" I finally told her.
Her face lit up again. That bounce in her step came alive. "I'm Sue Anne" she told me. "It is nice to meet you Dan" she said. I wanted to go and hug her regardless if I didn't know her. I felt like we needed to hug. I wanted to hold her hand, hug her body, kiss her lips and go down on a knee and ask her right there in the parking lot if she would consider marrying me I the near future.
"Dan" she started to ask "Ummm is it possible you and I" and my hormones kicked in before she got to the end of her question.
"Could male love with each other" I asked myself. "Sure" I told her before she spit out her question.
