Sometimes you go through these phases in your life. These dry spots that make you feel boring or lonely or even self-loathing. Thats how I have been feeling for the past month or so, basically starting after a relationship ended badly. Its not like outwardly I act differently. It’s more when I’m alone, or the amount I choose to be alone. I’ve been avoiding people because I don’t want to break down and cry. Seriously. It’s not even like this relationship was that serious. Its just one of those times when you realize you want to be in a committed relationship and literally every single one of your friends is either married/engaged/or in a serious relationship. And I am just sitting here single. I want those lovie-dovie feeling. I want someone to pursue me. It’s not like I am not pretty, I am. I’m not freaking drop dead gorgeous but I feel like I am just this eye sore that no one likes, ever.
So anyways I have been in this dry spot for quite some time. And I have just been there. Waiting for that shift in phases. Well it happened tonight. I met this guy while I was working.
But let me start with the long story. So I work at a fancy movie theatre where we sell wraps, salads, coffees, smoothies, milkshakes, etc. And tonight I worked in the Cafe where we do milkshakes. It is really busy because of the Hobbit opening up this weekend. So I was making lots of milkshakes and coffees and stuff. This little girl comes up wanting this specific type of specialty shake we do. And of course I don’t have the special ingredient that the shake needs so I tell her and the girl is fine with it without. So I am making it and see that I now have a line forming so I try and hurry up. I finish it and I go to check out the girl and she is just like ‘Uhh what if I don’t like it?’, and I’m thinking, seriously you just made me make this and you are about to make me make you a new shake…, so I tell her it’s fine and that I’ll make her a new one if she doesn’t like it. She tries is and makes this ugly face and is like, ‘It tastes like a milkshake…' (She seriously said that, and I gave her the stupidest look ever) So then I just told her i would make her a new shake. I was so pissed off, but I didn't want her to feel bad or anything so i just threw the shake in the sink and turned to make the new shake. I notice that the guys behind her are talking and getting ready to just go down the aisle to order instead of waiting for me to make another shake. Which made me happy, one less customer for me to deal with.
I finish with the girls milkshake and everyone else waiting for coffee or anything else. And then one of those guys came back up and randomly asks for a spoon. So I gave him one and then he starts looking at the ice cream selection we have. Then he looks at me and says, ‘Hey, sorry you had to deal with that girl.’ I was just like, ‘Ehhh, it happens.’ And then he just goes on laughing with me about how she thought her original milkshake tasted like a milkshake. He decided he wanted some ice cream, and got three scoops of coffee ice cream. So I made the joke, ‘You’re not going to make me put this in the bowl and then decide you hate coffee, right?' Which made him laugh. He went on talking about how he had to deal with that a lot at the coffee shops he worked at in the past. I gave him his bowl spoon-less because I had given him his spoon before. And then I rung him out and he was gone. The Perfect Stranger. He was so nice.
And then it hit me. He asked for a spoon, and then got ice cream way after we were in conversation. He really just wanted to come up and talk to me. The whole time we were talking I wanted to just give him my number. Which is so unlike me. Like I would never do that, but for some reason I did. I didn’t though. I was too scared that he wasn’t interested. And who knows if I will ever see him again. It was just nice, it was not like he was hitting on me being obnoxious. He was genuinely nice for no reason. I just wish I could see him again. I feel like now I can move on. I can be out of this slump I have been in, not because I am in love with this guy, but because of the genuine kindness of the heart of a stranger. I don’t even know his name, just his order, Three Scoops of Coffee Ice Cream.
So anyways I have been in this dry spot for quite some time. And I have just been there. Waiting for that shift in phases. Well it happened tonight. I met this guy while I was working.
But let me start with the long story. So I work at a fancy movie theatre where we sell wraps, salads, coffees, smoothies, milkshakes, etc. And tonight I worked in the Cafe where we do milkshakes. It is really busy because of the Hobbit opening up this weekend. So I was making lots of milkshakes and coffees and stuff. This little girl comes up wanting this specific type of specialty shake we do. And of course I don’t have the special ingredient that the shake needs so I tell her and the girl is fine with it without. So I am making it and see that I now have a line forming so I try and hurry up. I finish it and I go to check out the girl and she is just like ‘Uhh what if I don’t like it?’, and I’m thinking, seriously you just made me make this and you are about to make me make you a new shake…, so I tell her it’s fine and that I’ll make her a new one if she doesn’t like it. She tries is and makes this ugly face and is like, ‘It tastes like a milkshake…' (She seriously said that, and I gave her the stupidest look ever) So then I just told her i would make her a new shake. I was so pissed off, but I didn't want her to feel bad or anything so i just threw the shake in the sink and turned to make the new shake. I notice that the guys behind her are talking and getting ready to just go down the aisle to order instead of waiting for me to make another shake. Which made me happy, one less customer for me to deal with.
I finish with the girls milkshake and everyone else waiting for coffee or anything else. And then one of those guys came back up and randomly asks for a spoon. So I gave him one and then he starts looking at the ice cream selection we have. Then he looks at me and says, ‘Hey, sorry you had to deal with that girl.’ I was just like, ‘Ehhh, it happens.’ And then he just goes on laughing with me about how she thought her original milkshake tasted like a milkshake. He decided he wanted some ice cream, and got three scoops of coffee ice cream. So I made the joke, ‘You’re not going to make me put this in the bowl and then decide you hate coffee, right?' Which made him laugh. He went on talking about how he had to deal with that a lot at the coffee shops he worked at in the past. I gave him his bowl spoon-less because I had given him his spoon before. And then I rung him out and he was gone. The Perfect Stranger. He was so nice.
And then it hit me. He asked for a spoon, and then got ice cream way after we were in conversation. He really just wanted to come up and talk to me. The whole time we were talking I wanted to just give him my number. Which is so unlike me. Like I would never do that, but for some reason I did. I didn’t though. I was too scared that he wasn’t interested. And who knows if I will ever see him again. It was just nice, it was not like he was hitting on me being obnoxious. He was genuinely nice for no reason. I just wish I could see him again. I feel like now I can move on. I can be out of this slump I have been in, not because I am in love with this guy, but because of the genuine kindness of the heart of a stranger. I don’t even know his name, just his order, Three Scoops of Coffee Ice Cream.