Thursday, October 25, 2007

Interesting Offer


I was at work yesterday doing as I usually do (check internet pages 300times and then play some spider solitaire while making fun of the people I see) when our cleaning lady came in (lovingly I nicknamed her shakes). She took out the garbage as usual and wanted to ask me something. This did not surprise me because I see her every day and she always has some story to tell that secretly i could care less about, but she is nice enough.

First she tells me she hopes she isn't imposing but a nurse wanted to know if i was single. "It wasn't for the nurse" she said, "it was for the nurse's beautiful daughter, who she (the nurse) thought we would make a good match." Obviously I laughed and told shakes that I was single but don't really date much.

That was the end of the conversation and after she was out of the office I started to think to myself. What could the nurse have thought sending in a cleaning lady as an intermediary in her romance scheme? Did she expect me to be excited about being set up by some one I do not know by someone who takes out my garbage daily?
Well it is a small hospital but the cleaning lady, come on, just come up yourself.

Beyond the obvious, how do you tell people who only know you by work standards that you are a douche bag (see above picture)? Looking back on any type of relationship i have had, even though my intentions may have been good, they always end with me doing something douche baggy. Although I know this, i cannot reply to a honest offer, "I would love to be set up for a blind date but i am kind of an ass and usually make things uncomfortable for the girl. If you add that disclaimer to the offer of a blind date than I am in." At work I am a nice guy, always in a tie, clean shaved, polite, and soft spoken. After work or lately in a social setting I am a drunken belligerent ass. Those are two extremes that I don't think should ever collide into each other.

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