I was walking to my bus stop after work only to realize upon reaching the stop that there were 6 more minutes for the bus to arrive. In my city, that equates to 15 mins in real-life time. So I decided to just walk. About a block away in the direction I was walking, I saw a HB8 from the back with nice blonde hair and tight jeans which accentuated her ass.

I immediately started questioning myself whether or not I should approach her when I catch up with her (I was walking faster than her); I realized at the time that I was psyching myself out just thinking about it, but I couldn't stop thinking about it. Conveniently, I caught up to her at a stoplight and it was red, so we were both standing there waiting for the green light to continue walking. I glanced to my right to get a better look at her face and it was alright - HB7. But I didn't really care about that; I just wanted to muster the strength to open. She was listening to music while holding out her iPhone loosely and I looked in her direction and told her: "You are holding out your phone pretty carelessly. That's a bad idea in this neighborhood." I had to repeat myself after she took her earphones out, but she got the message and smiled and acknowledged that I was right. Then she started talking about how she had gotten her phone stolen twice in the city and that she does need to be more careful. I shared a few stories about my friends' phones getting stolen, etc... we started talking about music, touched on her work in her non-profit, casual topics like that. All this while, I had purposely unplugged only my right earplug (she was walking to my right), keeping my left earplug intact so I could seem more "cool" haha. Don't really think it made a difference in the grand scheme of things.

We walked and talked for about 10 minutes, but the things we talked about progressed in a logical predictable way. She talked way more than me and even repeated her ramblings occasionally. Several times in our interaction, part of me just wanted to tell her that she's cute and that we should go out in the coming days OR at the very least say something more flirtatious (neg her for talking so much). I feel like I've read too much about being direct during the day and that advice was popping up in my head over and over. But I felt that because I came off as a nice guy to start the interaction, cutting her off and getting direct so abruptly would just be weird. However, I also wanted to be honest with my feelings and not just be a sounding board. Huge mental conflict here (suggestions?). I didn't think of this at the time but if I had done that and the she responded unfavorably (i.e. married, etc...), the rest of our walk would've also been awkward as fuck (anyone have ideas to recover in this kind of setting?).

After walking for about 10 mins, I heard the bus coming up behind us. She asked me whether I am taking the bus and that she probably won't because she is almost at her street. I told her yea I am taking the bus cuz I am lazy (pretty proud of myself for being in the moment and not giving a fuck here, but might not have been the best thing to say). I think I got a huge IOI when she defended my laziness by saying "yea, the streets can get kinda steep around here" and decided to come on the bus with me. But, unfortunately, we got separated on the bus by this enormous black chick with two kids. Once I realized this, I looked over to her and smiled; she smiled back. We were separated for the entire bus ride, and her stop was before mine, so we waved each other goodbye. For the first time, I noticed a ring on her ring finger.