When your hair is limp and way past due for a haircut, your lips are dry as sandpaper, your complexion wonky, and your sweater is riding up, what happens?
Why, you get your first chance to talk to Work Crush more than him simply saying, “Can you do this for me? Thanks.”
In a common area, I ran into him and was prepared to ask him what the deal was with the decoration going on in the room he shares with several other guys. He told me that there was an office in the opposite building that was often decorated so they wanted to provide some colour in return.
This lead to me asking him at which stage he was in his training. He told me that he was in his last year of university and I nearly choked. Please, let him tell me that he had a quarter-life career change… Nope. I couldn’t resist and asked him how old he is: he’s nine years younger than I am… or 70% of my age…..
I glanced at his wedding band as we talked and wondered to myself, “Sheesh, did you get married at 18?! Who does that these days?!”
In our conversation, it came up that he lives with his parents and I couldn’t resist asking if he was married. Because if someone is married and living at home, hey, I want to know how often that happens in this alterna-world that is Lotusland.
He said he wasn’t married and explained that his girlfriend gave him the unadorned ring and the only finger it fits on is that ring finger.
(If someone told me that in a bar, I’d be the most gullible person alive to believe it. But I believe it when it’s told to me at the workplace!)
In the midst, we talked about random things like living in Lotusland and coming from away, living in university residence, and our internships.
It turns out that he’s on an 8-month internship at the company so with careful treading, I hope this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship. =)
(On a somewhat related note, I want to befriend a really sweet girl at work. I also pointedly asked her one day if she was engaged because she wears a small diamond ring on her ring finger. Funny how I meet two people putting forth false impressions of their relationship status…)
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