You Don't Know My Name

Hello?
Can I speak to...to Michael? Oh, hey how you doin'?
Uh, I feel kinda silly doin this but, uh,
this is the waitress from the coffee house on 39th from Lenox.
You know the one with the braids?
Yeah. Well I see you on Wednesdays all the time.
You come in every Wednesday on your lunch break, I think.
And you always order the special...with the hot chocolate.
My manager be trippin and stuff talkin 'bout we gotta use water, but...
I always use some milk and cream for you, cause...
I think you kinna sweet. (laughs)
Anyway, you always got on some fly blue suit
and your cufflinks is shining all bright.
So what you do?
Oh word?
Yeah that's interestin'...
Look man, I mean, I don't wanna waste your time but...
I know girls don't usually do this,
but I was wonderin' if maybe we could get together
outside the restaurant one day?

I was driving home listening to the radio and that song came on. As I was listening to Alicia Keys talk to Mr. Mos definitely sexy on the phone I was thinking to myself I wish I could be bold and do something like that. But then it occurred to me.... I did do that before. It was so not me, I was so, shall I say daring. I remember it like it was yesterday.

It was a Thursday morning and I was running late for work. I ended up calling in because I didn't feel like rushing to make it to work and if anyone from the Hampton Roads area knows how traffic is by the downtown tunnel in the morning you know why it would have been pointless to rush because either way I would have been late. While I'm getting dressed my mom calls me and tells me she is running late for a conference she is having in downtown Norfolk and asks me to drop her off on my way to work and check her into the hotel so she won't be any later than she already is. Of course I said yes. No, I didn't want to do it.... I was already running late, but it's my mother so I had to. We get downtown and she disappeared into the hotel before I could even get out of the car. I go check her in then they send a hop to come get her bags. Me and the hop get on the elevator and this is the first time I noticed all of his chocolate yummyness. Ummm. Yes he was that good looking. I don't know if he saw something in my eyes, but he started trying to make conversation with me and I did what any girl that is blessed to be in the presence of chocolatey goodness would do... I avoided eye contact and tried to answer his questions with as few syllables as possible. We get to the suite and he tells me to check it out while following me around and making me blush like a school girl. Ya'll should have seen this man. I just wanted to drop to my knees and thank god that I had the chance to see something so beautiful.... I couldn't take it any more.... he was so, so beautiful and making me so, so nervous. Do you know the things I would have done to this man if I were a different kind of woman. Let's just say he would have been in my funbag and I would have used him for nights of endless pleasure. So I thank him and left.....

I know.... I know... punk move.

I finally get to work, but there was no work being done because all I could think about way my chocolatey goody yum-yum eye candy. I mean, this man was so handsome and I tried to rationalize my reasons for leaving so abruptly and not trying to get to know him better to no avail. Yeah he was sexy and all but that doesn't mean he is not an arrogant jerk. I couldn't stop thinking about him so I did what Alicia did..... I called him because... well you know.... curiosity killed the cat. I was so nervous this was not Van, she doesn't do things like this.

He wasn't available at the time I called so I just left my work number (trying to keep it professional) and hoped he didn't call back. Oh yeah..... I didn't want it to seem like I was calling him because I thought he was a yummy piece of man. You see I never tipped him and I figured I'd just call and apologize for that and thank him for his service. Sounds stupid to you? Well it was the best I could come up with at the time.

Dang it. He called back.... and he knew who I was and before I could tell him why I called, he told me I was a very beautiful woman and I was looking very sexy that day... *gush*. I am used to getting complements but this was too much. We exchanged numbers and agreed to talk later.

He called later that night and I find out this man models and is a runner.... go figure. That would explain the Adonis like body. But I also found out he had a girlfriend. ;-( He could have mentioned that tiny detail before I gave him my home number *smh*. So needless to say that was the end of that.

This story might not have the happy ending you were expecting, but it was a happy ending for me. You see I did something that I normally wouldn't have done and that to me is a great thing.