I had decided this was to be an adventurous weekend before I left town. I had just broken up with my third boyfriend in less than a year and it was time for a change. So here I was, alone in San Francisco and I never leave town alone. In addition, here I was, sitting in the bar of my hotel alone something else I never do. It was still early, the bar was quiet, and I'm sure just to pass the time the bartender was talking to me.
The bar had a Japanese theme to it and although she wasn't oriental, the barkeep was discussing the different kinds of sake they carried. I noticed she was a lovely girl and wondered to myself what she was doing on that side of the bar and after my third sake sample; I was just brash enough to ask her. She shocked me by saying she found it easy to troll for women when she worked the bar and then shocked me again when she informed me I was sitting in a gay bar. I mean I was in San Francisco and I knew there were many gay bars here but until she mentioned it, I hadn't noticed what few customers there were paired off by same sex.
I told her I thought she was too beautiful to be gay and after realizing what an insult, saying that was, I apologized to her. First, she laughed saying she was a lipstick, and then she leaned over the bar and kissed me. The only thing I could think to say was,
"Are you trying to pick me up?"
Her answer was, "Do you want me to?"
She left to go wait on a customer as I sat there wondering just what my answer to her question was. When she returned she had yet another sake sample for me and was in the process of telling me it about when I interrupted,