Oh wow, I never thought it was possible, but I seriously met the coolest guy at the freakin' grocery store earlier tonight! Has this ever happened to anyone you know? I never thought it was real!
I just moved back to Orlando, in a new apartment complex, and there's a new fancy Publix across the street. For those of you not near Florida, Publix is the best grocery store, decent prices, doesn't smell (i.e., that stench in Winn-Dixie's in bad areas of town), and the newer ones are great - the regular grocery stuff, plus lots of neat gourmet stuff, decent sushi (!), good wine selection, etc.
So anyway...I wanted to bake what I call the "World's Most Fabulous Cookies" (peanut-butter-chocolate-chip-fluffy-melt-in-your-mouth-damn-fine cookies) and I realized I was out of the main ingredients (the PB and choc chips!), so I headed to Publix.
I'm walking through the aisles, and WOW! there is this tall/dark/handsome guy with the most beautiful eyes I've ever seen. I was feeling a little feisty (and wearing my favorite jeans, thank you God for the long legs!) so I smiled at him and sort of "made eyes" at him (Ladies, you know what I'm talking about). We kept crossing paths, and I knew he was checking me out. I tried to dawdle a little, but I finished finding what I needed way before he did, so I went to check out. He was in the line next to me but behind 2 slow people. So I just went to my car and drove across the street home. (In case people think I'm lazy for driving across the street, the street is a 4 lane divided highway and I'm in the very back of a huge apt. complex - not walkable with groceries!)
I have a very distinctive car and my apt is the only residential area across the street. The guy followed me over there and as I was taking out my groceries he drove up. He was so cute, apologizing for following me, "I swear I'm not a stalker - don't run!"
I wasn't going to let him into my apartment (I'm crazy enough to pick up a guy in a grocery store, but not THAT crazy!), so we sat on the steps of my apt bldg and talked for awhile. He went to UF too and now works in town. We were just laughing at ourselves so much - Who the heck picks up people in the grocery store? Isn't that some kind of urban legend? It never happens in real life, right? We exchanged phone numbers.
So yay! That was my little adventure for the day. Even if it never leads anywhere, I'll at least know it's POSSIBLE.
Meeting People at the Grocery Store!!
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