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10 years ago
I get tea and a muffin at this local shop pretty much every morning before reading there, or heading to the library right down the road to study.
Its a pretty nice place, with REALLY good tea. Kinda hipstery/college studentish/lots of gay couples. But that kinda means I actually fit in, so I'm happy.
Today the girl working the counter was apparently friendly, because while waiting for my drink to be done she started talking to me and I blundered my way through the whole thing.
*groans*
I'm gonna paraphrase it, because I was FREAKING out and can't remember 100%. But basically it was like.
Her: Giving me my change back.
Her: "Hey, you come here a lot!"
Me: Kinda jumps and awkwardly looks around.
Me: "U-uh... Yeah... I like the tea here..."
Her: "Oh yeah? That's nice. It's always good to see regulars!"
*Awkward pause*
Her: "Soooooo. Just so I remember, what's your name?"
Me: "I um... [insert name here]"
She kinda nods and laughs, waits for me to ask (which I never did) before eventually going "Well my name is ______. So... Yep!"
I 100% assume I was beet red, and I was kinda fidgeting around trying to figure out what to do. Just pretty much going full panic mode because someone struck up casual conversation, and I'm already making a fool out of myself because I have no idea what to do or say.
Plus she was adooooooorable, so that isn't helping at all.
So I go for the strategic pretend to play on my phone and try not to die move that clearly looks completely natural.
Which seems to work because she stops talking to me, but now I feel like everybody in the store is staring at me for whatever reason. Looking back they totally weren't, but panic mode negates all logic.
Eventually my tea is done and she hands me a muffin, so I grab it and bolt. Planning to never ever go back because clearly that's the logical thing to do when cashiers are friendly.
It takes me a solid 5 minutes or so of calming down/frantically texting a friend about it before I realize THE CASHIER LADY, OR AT LEAST SOMEONE THERE, WROTE "SHY GIRL" AND "Have a good day :)" ON MY CUP.
After I tell my friend about that, she keeps saying "AWW MAYBE SHE LIKES YOU! GO BAAAAACK!" and I'm just nooooooooooooope x9000. Please stop. Not going back. Never ever going back. Does not compute. Horrible idea. I will ruin everything ever. She probably thinks I'm weird. Probably not into girls. How does that even mean she likes me anyways. Probably just pitied my awkwardness. Error. 404 bravery not found. DOES NOT COMPUTE.
So I'm just done for today...
I'll be panicking now if you need me.
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RedRabbit
~redrabbit
Hey man, not everyone has cute baristas striking up conversations with them! Every day is a fresh start, go back tomorrow and say 'hi!' plus you've already got something to talk about :p
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