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August 19, 2006
Lovestruck Puppy Dog
This past week I had to take mom shopping for a few gifts she wanted to buy. Usually I can pretty much find/figure out where certain items are without requiring assistance. Unfortunately, this particular store had items everywhere but where you'd expect them. Enter lovestruck puppy dog... to the rescue!
The assistant manager of the store offered to help us find the items we needed, offering mom a chair to sit down in while he and I went off in pursuit of the items on her list. Now I'm totally blind when it comes to someone being interested in me; I'm typically in a state of shock when a friend informs me about it later on. However, the assistant manager, who I knew was some years my junior, brought new meaning to the phrase head over heels.
Since I was the only person near him, it had to be me. This wasn't merely a case of superb customer service, boredom at the cash register or lack of customers. No, it was all about me, goddess that I was in my shorts, t-shirt and flip-flops, tanned blonde-hair-glistening diva. I imagined him thinking Wow! She's a hottie. Wow! She's funny! Wow! She's smart! Wow! I'd like to... and god knows what other images developed in that adorable head of his. Like I said, it was about me.
Anyhoo, we worked quite well together as we ran around the store collecting items. We joked, we laughed, we made mistakes and both of us used the expression duh! more than once. It became a game of who will find it first and that made it fun (shopping = fun? whodathunkit?) It took about 15 minutes before I realized that I was dealing with a lovestruck puppy dog. Surely there's some nice little lovely he'd best invest his hormonal urges in, right? Someone more his age, or was he busy thinking Ashton Kutcher/Demi Moore? Cher/bagel boy? I've never seen such a glazed expression on a guy's face before. (Of course I considered the possibility that he was glazed, dazed and confused due to a hangover, sleepless night or some other reason.) Had he been suffering from any of those, I doubt he would have been so cheerfully willing to run around a store at 10 in the morning.
We succeeded in finding everything on mom's list and puppy dog offered up his business card in case we needed anything... at any time. That was some amazing customer service I'd just experienced. I thought it would be a wonderful thing if every shopping experience was so painless and fun, but that's just a pipedream, yes? Superb customer service AND a guy who swoons over you while you shop? If only... er, if only I didn't feel like I'd be robbing the cradle... ;-)
Cindy
Comments
maybe you're both peaking at the same time? .. besides after that mosquito post I'm betting it was the pheromones .. go on, have some fun, I dare you ;)
Brain matter deposited by: sdy on August 20, 2006 2:08 AM
actually, Cindy, he may have seen you for you. (hehe)
Okay, how about: and what he saw, fulfilled all the something something he read of in harlequin classics....kind of a thing.
Brain matter deposited by: RONW on August 20, 2006 2:10 AM
awwwww, give it a try, cinders, it may be fun!
Brain matter deposited by: zed on August 20, 2006 10:38 AM
yes, go back to the store and grab the little puppy present... he wants you, don't be so age-discriminating ;-)
Brain matter deposited by: Holger on August 23, 2006 6:30 PM
ps. take a camera with you. we all want to see the boy!
Brain matter deposited by: Holger on August 23, 2006 6:30 PM
Steve - oh, yukyukyuk.
RonW - you're so worldly! you even know about Harlequin romance novels!
Zoe - Nope. Not going there. E.V.E.R.
Holger - I'll take you there when you visit so you can see for yourself; up close and personal. :-)
Brain matter deposited by: Cindy on August 25, 2006 8:51 AM