I love the city of San Francisco. I live and work here. I had a day off and on a whim I went down to Fisherman's Wharf, wandered down to Pier 39, and back up to Ghirardelli Square. Watching the people more than looking at the goods in the shops. Tourists and locals playing tourist with their friends and relatives.
I was in a souvenir shop, looking at snow globes. Snow globes with cable cars. Snow globes with the Golden Gate Bridge. Etc.
I looked up from the snow globes and out the shop window and my eyes were drawn to a beautiful brown haired woman of about 30 yrs. Nice figure. Gray slacks, white blouse, dark gray sweater. In summer, in San Francisco, a sweater is sensible. We have our own micro-climate.
She was with four other women. All of them extremely attractive. But I couldn't take my eyes off of her. They had stopped outside the shop. I watched as she talked and laughed with her friends. As I watched I got that dΓ©jΓ vu feeling. You know, like I'd dreamed or lived this moment before.
Her friends left her and went into the shop across the way. She walked into this shop, the one I was in. She stopped to look at souvenir shot glasses. Suddenly I understood the dΓ©jΓ vu moment. I hadn't lived this moment before, but there had been a similar moment. It had been, what, nine, maybe ten years ago. I had been on a business trip. I had visited a local mall. I had been people watching then too. I had found myself staring at a lovely young brown haired girl. I had suddenly been struck with a moment of recognition. Just as I was now.
I approached this brown haired beauty, saw she had the same lovely brown eyes I remembered. I said "hello."
She smiled up at me and said "hi" then, a pause, then "uh, do we know each other?"
"Let's say we've met each other. It was about ten years back, in a mall in _______Texas. You were standing outside the Victoria's Secret and I came up and introduced myself."
Ten years before I had recognized the girl from her pictures on the internet. The name she had used on her porn site was Tawnee Stone. Like a lot of men, I had fallen in love with the images of the girl. Never dreaming I would actually meet her.
This was, of course, the same girl, now a woman, both of us ten years or so older. That we should meet each other again, here in my city, is the same sort of coincidence that makes people say that it's a small world. Unlikely, but it happens. Unlikely, but here she was.
She looked at me for a moment, started to say something, stopped, then started again, "You introduced yourself and then invited me to dinner. Then, as I recall, we went to your hotel room and had more than just room service."
I never dreamed what that unexpected chance would lead to.
"Yes." I said.
"Your name is Steve. Oh wow. Imagine running into you. What are you doing here?"
I laughed. "In San Francisco? This is my city."