Now, if you could just see this girl, you'd totally understand. But man, I got it bad right now and it's messing with my head. I feel like I'm too old for this garbage. Guess not. Dang. But like I said, if you could just see her. Mmm.
And because I am my own worst enemy when it comes to matters of attraction, there are conflicts and obstacles. Of course, conflicts and obstacles be damned, but I can't claim ignorance of them.
I'm trying very hard not to turn this entry into a gush. But oof. She's fine. My eyes go googly like ole cookie monster on a binge around her. Very disorienting. And I keep biting my tongue, not as a colloquialism to describe me holding back improper declarations, but because my tongue hangs out of my face and I close my mouth on it.
And we work so well together. We work so well together. It's amazing. At the baby store, I mean. We both work at the baby store. And so she gets to see me at my stupidest. I hope she finds it if not attractive, then at the very least cute.
Hope can also be so stupid.
And for pity's sake, this all just showed up last week. I've been working with her for more than two months now and I didn't think too much about it until last Tuesday sometime during the day I looked at her and thought
GOOD GODDAMN! SHE MUST BE MINE!
Maybe it was something she said or looked like or, yeah, even smelled like (let's be honest, it affects us). I have no idea. But the spark was sparked. The switch was flipped (I first typed out "the flip was switched", which might be an even better phrase). And now it's an avalanche in my poor brain. I have this hard and fast policy about never dating coworkers that has served me well in my adult life.
It seems time for a rewrite. More later.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but in the last ten years or so, weren't your co-workers primarily older industrial dudes? And whatever few sources of temptation there may have been, you had years there to inoculate yourself. I can't imagine your policy has been tested much in recent years, up until the job change. Was it really a policy against dating coworkers, or was it just the typical policy against dating people not female and/or outside the standard age range?
ReplyDeleteStandard age range -
min: 22 + ((your age - 22) x 0.25)
max: your age + 10 years + 1 year per $50K annual income of the lady in question
Anyway, good luck with that. By which I mean, I hope your policy goes out the window if you come across a worthy lady. Sometimes common sense doesn't help when you're seeking an uncommon outcome.