Wow, With Me?

I had a terrible shift at work last night.

Almost got into an actual fight with the chef. I mean he had come around from behind the line, and people were holding him back.

Just because we yelled at each other, and I called him a jackass.

Oops.

Fuck him.

So, anyway, tough shift.

So, I sat down in the bar afterwards to treat myself to a nice Chicken Parm and some red wine.

I was joined by RC. She is a young Thai UCLA student who works with me. She and I have known each other since about Feb, when I started working a lunch shift every week. She works the lunch shift with me.

She is very funny, very smart, hard working, and lovely.

I trained her for the night program.

I also trained and worked lunches with her boyfriend.

You just knew there had to be a boyfriend, right?

Well, I like him a lot too. He is very funny, and self deprecating, and doesn't take himself seriously at all. A big kid. Which is funny to say, since he is only 24. To me, he IS a kid.

Anyway, she joined me last night as she was waiting for him to finish his shift.

She is very inquisitive, and easy to talk to, and I found myself suddenly talking about my life to her. She was asking all the questions, but I was talking.

She asked about X. About how long we were together, and what went wrong, and how I feel about love, and all sorts of personal things.

I had mentioned to her once about liking a girl who has a boyfriend, and she started to ask me about my thoughts on what is going on with that, and what am I doing about it, if anything.

Tons of questions.

At one point, she asked me about the difference between separation and divorce. I told her the difference is, separation means she moves out and you break up. Divorce is just the legal status. I said technically, I'm still married.

To which she replied:

You mean I'm sitting here flirting with a married man?!

To which I replied:

You mean you're flirting?!

We both sort of uncomfortably laughed, but she just stared at me after.

Later, she even did this thing with her fingers that made them point from my eyes to hers. I think it meant, have eyes for me.

I didn't know how to take that. I mean, her boyfriend was in the building. He in fact was stopping by our table quite often giving progress reports.

I seriously don't think she is the type to cheat, but Wha?

Either way, when she said flirting, it made me feel real good. It made me realize that I've been doing all the chasing this last year, and sometimes it is just really nice to be chased. Even if it only seems like you are being chased.

Thanks RC.