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Whilst on my hourly break at work this evening, I was zoning out as usual and I noticed someone hovering around me. I look up and there's a guy who I don't know but works the same shift as me and he had this little lost puppy look on his face. I took one of my earbuds out (yeah, best perk of my job is that I get paid to listen to audio books while keying the mail) and he says, "I see you every day when we clock in so I just wanted to say hi." So I smile and say hi and introductions are made and we chatted for a minute or two about how slow the day was going and he keeps looking at me like he's expecting me to do a trick. Like maybe setting him on fire or sticking a knife in him (which is absurd, I'm not allowed to carry my throwing knives into the building). So then there's this awkward silence and he says, "Well, I just wanted to say hi, I'm going to go get something to eat."
And then at the end of my shift I see him lingering around the time clock I was headed for, allowing a couple other people to clock out ahead of him. Again he's looking like a lost puppy, and then he swipes his card to record his move to the designation for reading our required weekly safety bulletins, waves at me, and then walks off (they gave us the option to clock out an hour early; I took it and apparently he didn't).
And then it occurs to me that he's always kind of on the edge of my peripheral vision all day long. So, great. Here's a guy who likes me who's been trying to muster the courage to talk to me for at least a couple of months and he finally does and now I get to destroy his soul by telling him that I'm happily engaged. I've rarely been someone's crush, and I have no idea how to let someone down gently. And that damn lost puppy look, I can just tell it's going to hurt no matter what.
It's going to be like kicking a puppy. And of course, when I said this to my fiancee she waggles her eyebrows and says, "I dunno. Puppies can be fun to play with"
And then at the end of my shift I see him lingering around the time clock I was headed for, allowing a couple other people to clock out ahead of him. Again he's looking like a lost puppy, and then he swipes his card to record his move to the designation for reading our required weekly safety bulletins, waves at me, and then walks off (they gave us the option to clock out an hour early; I took it and apparently he didn't).
And then it occurs to me that he's always kind of on the edge of my peripheral vision all day long. So, great. Here's a guy who likes me who's been trying to muster the courage to talk to me for at least a couple of months and he finally does and now I get to destroy his soul by telling him that I'm happily engaged. I've rarely been someone's crush, and I have no idea how to let someone down gently. And that damn lost puppy look, I can just tell it's going to hurt no matter what.
It's going to be like kicking a puppy. And of course, when I said this to my fiancee she waggles her eyebrows and says, "I dunno. Puppies can be fun to play with"
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