Strike 3, you're OUT!

Modern communication is a necessary part of meeting someone you might want to date. My dear friends, it’s true! It is imperative that your brain signals trigger the necessary neurons to create movement in your vocal chords in a united effort to assemble a string of sounds in such a pattern that they form REAL words we commonly have been referring to for the past several millenniums as "a sentence". Critical…

A while back I was in a coffee shop getting my daily fix of caffeine when suddenly I could see walking in from a car in the parking lot a young woman that was extremely pretty and her demeanor seemed as if her looks were a good indicator of her sweetness. After determining her age and to the best of my ability confirming that she was at least over 22, I decided I would "try" to talk to her.

Strike 1-
She was standing right next to me in line, I ordered my coffee and she ordered hers. She asked if they had bagels, they indicated they only had plane bagels. Immediately She looked over to me and smiled disappointedly, to my tremendous surprise and subsequent disappointment I looked back, smiled at her and made a sound like “Huh?!?”. There we were, in a moment of complete stare awkwardness, you all know what i mean. Well y'all, the problem there is that I made a sound. I didn’t say "good morning!" or " how are you" or even "Hi"…nope I said “huh?!?”…seriously, what is that??? My little Dynamite(see last blog entry for definition of that) was saying to me "Words mike, words, think of something, say something, say anything.
AN-Y-THING!!!!!

Strike2-
Confused by this unlikely turn of events (speechless , or no ideas for any wordsJ ) I headed over to prepare my coffee. There I was, stirring, spilling, putting in sugar…basically…Stalling! As expected she walked over to me, again she smiled at me for a second time. This time you would think I would have spoken…but nope, again NOTHING came out of my mouth. This is very unlike me. I generally have something to say in all situations! I politely smiled back. Confused I then walked away.

Strike 3-
So I decided that I couldn’t give up just yet, so outside there were tables for 2 all over. I picked a prime spot to sit and positioned myself in plain view. I thought, "if she walks by, I’ll stop her and strike up a conversation, this is easy, she's friendly we have exchanged smiles, i just need to start it off..couldn't be easier!" Sure enough, she walked by AND she now spoke, and said "goodmorning"..What came next could never have been planned! It was amazing…

I did something almost unbelievable! I held up my cup, smiled and nodded approvingly at my cup of coffee, holding it up slightly and looking right at her. Picture this, Vanna White showing off a cup of coffee..how ridiculous right?? Right!!! Who does that? I didn’t even say hi back...(the difficulty of this move is so complex, words almost don't capture it's essence!)

The moral of this story is that making primal sounds and gestures as well as not saying anything does not work like it did in the age of cavemen.