Capri Pants

I went to a party at a friend's condo last night. I ended up somehow talking to a really attractive girl. Physically, she is my absolute ideal woman! She seemed pretty shy and reserved, so I couldn't easily tell if she was interested or not. I got her to tell me some of her life stories. English is not her first language, so she seemed to get a little confused whenever I tried to take the conversation in a silly, flirty direction.

Anyway, people start leaving as the night rolls on. Her and I are the last two guests there. We get up and say good bye to the host. As we're leaving the building, I offer to walk her to her car. She politely declines.

So as we're standing in front of the building about to part ways, I notice she's lingering a bit longer than people normally do when they say good bye. I started to get a thought: "She's probably waiting for me to ask for her phone number, but what if..."

Before I could finish that thought with some kind of limiting belief, I found myself reaching into my pocket and pulling out my cell phone. Then I open my mouth and somehow the following words fall out: "It was really fun talking with you tonight, R____. We should hang out sometime. What's your number?"

She gives me her number. I call the number on the spot and her purse starts to ring (Not a fake number!). "There. Now you have my number too," I add. We go through how to spell each others' names and we part.

I was so shocked that I actually pulled that off that I was literally shaking with excitement on the drive home.

The thing is...after I did this...looking back at all the women I've met over the past year since I became single, I feel a bit frustrated. They were all into me...They were just waiting for me to MAN THE FUCK UP and ask for their number. This dating thing was easy the whole time...I just made it into something much more complicated than it needed to be.

So it looks like there might be a new character in the story. I will call her Capri Pants (she looked really good in those too).

Amazing how easy somethings can be when you just let them be easy...