| At the restaurant I work at, there is an Italian Grill restaurant directly next door. And in between our restaurants is an outside patio that is shared by both places. Anyway, today I was working outside minding my own business when I laid eyes on, what is in my opinion, a perfect looking female. She's mid-height, dark brown hair, small frame, green eyes, and all the curves. When I say perfect, I mean PERFECT. Anyway, that aside. As soon as I saw her, my mind starting working. How would I approach her? What would I say? When should I? How long should I make the coversation? Should I just approach her and ignore her other than a hello and just let things play out? Should I approach her after work? I began to seriously over-analyze the situation, I could feel it. I saw her a few more times, as she sat tables down and went back to the front desk. Something happened to me that hasn't happened in a long long time. I started to get approach anxiety. Because I wasn't able to go talk to her until my tables were done eating and I had a free minute. I just continued to over-analyze the situation until I was literally feeling like I did 6 years ago as a high school sophmore. Finally, I was done and thought of a semi-plan to go approach her.
What I was originally going to do, was just go in, say whats up to the owner (a recently acquired friend) and then ask him what was for lunch jokingly while I paid little attention to her. Then just speak with her to order something for take-out, shoot her a smile and maybe a few words then go back to work. I figured this would be the best since I didn't have too much time to chat, and wanted to play the situation out as safely as possible.
Yeah, none of that happened.
As soon as I walked in the place, I was confronted by some UGLY ass chick who is a waiter there. She starts flirting with me, telling me that I'm coming over here to eat because my place sucks. I totally wasn't expecting it, and it threw me completely off guard. I had planned an approach that would have worked, because it has before in many cases, but instead here I was corned by this ugly cow chatting about who's food was better. WTF! Finally, the owner came over and rescued me from the ambush and I got to talk to him for a few minutes while she (HB) was watching both of us. I tried to make the conversation with him going smoothly while I was re-thinking what I should do. Instead, he tells me he has to get back to work, shoves a menu at me, shakes my hand, and walks away. Not one second later, she says "Hi, how are you doing today?" I smiled at her, looked at my menu for a second, threw away my planned approach and walked up to the front desk. The conversation went something like this:
ME: "Hi there."
HB: "Do you work next-door"
ME: "Yes, I just started a few weeks ago, I haven't seen you around here. Do you work alot?"
HB: "Oh my god yes! Like everyday!"
ME: "No way, you must get lost in the crowd or something then"
HB: "Hey, I'm not that little!"
ME: "Haha, whatever. Whats your name?"
HB: "Blah blah"
ME: "Okay blah blah, whats good here?"
HB: "Everything. Its Italian food, nothing is bad."
ME: "Wow, I should probably tell your owner to re-train you, I get better customer service than that at Wal-Mart."
HB: "I'm serious! Everything is good!"
ME: "Whatever, thanks for the help. How about this... What do YOU like? And don't say everything, nobody likes everything."
HB: "Well... ... ... I think my favorite is Chicken Parm, but I eat it all the time."
ME: "Good, ring up two of those, bring them over on your break, and have lunch with me on the patio." (hand her the money)
HB: "Are you serious? I don't even know you!"
ME: "I don't know you either. Big deal."
HB: "Well, what time do you get a break?"
ME: "When you bring me my lunch. See ya then." (walk towards door, open and leave)
HB: "Wait your change.." (gone already)
About an hour or so later I see her walking across the patio, and sit down on my side. I grabbed some silverware and met her out there. She sat down, and looked at me with this dumbfounded look / big smile. When I sat down I just began to laugh. She handed me my plate and we just began to talk. She was asking a lot of questions about me, she seemed very interested. We chatted for a while, I ran a few canned routines on her, but mostly just talked. Before she left, she made some pretty strong eye contact and held it for a silent 30 seconds. I told her to get back to work, but first, to give me her number. She did. I left work without saying goodbye to her because I was in a hurry and didn't really think it was necessary since we had already ended on a very good note.
Problems:
1) If you haven't read my last field report, I am kind of sort of seeing the owners daughter, who works in my restaurant. She wasn't at work today, but she tries to keep me away from girls at the restaurant in any way she can. I don't know what the fuck to do about her. I knew she was a bad idea to get into anything with.
2) When we were talking over lunch, she mentioned very briefly that she had just started seeing someone. But specified to me that she wasn't too excited about it. I'm not sure if I should ever even bring this guy up again and just ignore that completely, or go after him with a bf destroyer of some kind.
Comments, advice, and critiques welcome.
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