Enterprise<\/a> … I remembered when we used to bowl, before you moved … you mentioned you watched it … and to this day … you are the only person I know to have ever watched it.<\/i>”<\/p>\n“Wow, you’re right, that is a tell.<\/i>”<\/p>\n
“A tell?<\/i>”<\/p>\n
“Forget it. How have you been? You look great.<\/i>” \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n
“Good thanks, you look great too … different, but great. Hey, mind if I sit down, I’ve got $50 bucks riding with those guys back there on whether or not I can get your phone number, I don’t mind losing the money, it’s worth it just to talk with you again, but I’d at least like to make them a bit nervous.<\/i>”<\/p>\n
“Please do.<\/i>” \ud83d\ude42 “Do you need a drink or anything?<\/i>”<\/p>\n
“Ahhh, you know, I don’t know your name now, but whatever it is, I think I’m the one that’s supposed to offer to buy the drinks.<\/i>”<\/p>\n
“That’s right, you are. I was just trying to help you out. Oh, and my name is Emily.<\/i>” \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n
“Thanks, but I can manage. Whatcha drinking, Emily?<\/i>” he said with a smirk.<\/p>\n
So while he’s getting us some drinks, I jot down my home and cell phone numbers on the back of my business card and slip it into my<\/i> pocket.<\/p>\n
We chat for about a half hour while he works on his latte (I’m mocha’d out, but didn’t want to discourage him with a “no” to the drink offer) when his posse finally had seen enough and decided to hit the road and began voicing their impatience with some “loverboy better hurry up<\/i>” type comments loud enough for all to hear.<\/p>\n
So we stand in unison and I bend over to get a pen outta my purse. Yeah, I know, I’ve giving them a view, it’s totally intentional and serves a purpose.<\/p>\n
Now that I knew I had their attentioooon … I took his hand and wrote my home phone number on the palm of it while his boys were muttering … “bullshit, I can’t believe it<\/i>” and the like … I put my pen in my left hand, slid my hand in my pocket and slyly removed my business card. I then gave him a hug which generated even more groans from his crew and startled him by slipping my hand with the business card into his back pocket … have I mentioned he has a great butt? … anyways … he looked at me with a cross between embarassment and shock.<\/p>\n
“Just left you my digits on a piece of paper, you know, in case you decided to wash your hands,<\/i>” I said, biting my lower lip afterwards. I know, totally cheap flirting trick, but it works. (And … one of the main reasons guys don’t call after finally getting your phone number … is because they lose it, they are after all … guys. So sometimes, if you want the kutie to call, it doesn’t hurt to help them out a bit, and give them your number twice. Otherwise, they have to repeatedly go to the same place they met you the first time until they see you again, and then you have to listen to their lame excuses for why they didn’t call you, because heaven forbid that they just admit to losing your number.)<\/p>\n
And that was that.<\/p>\n
He left.<\/p>\n
My cell phone rang.<\/p>\n
I answered.<\/p>\n
“Is Kathy there?” <\/i>Shawna asked on the other end of the line.<\/p>\n
Speaking to no one, I wonder “Who’s Kathy?<\/i>“, but knowing if I actually asked, I’d be setting myself up for a blonde comment, I instead ask out loud if there’s a Kathy here. A woman who just walked in the door says her name is Kathy.<\/p>\n
“Sure, you wanna talk with her? Fine I guess, he’s trying to gain another 20 lbs so his insurance will cover getting his tummy tied. You’re being nice to my car now, right? She’s my baby. Okay, here she is.<\/i>”<\/p>\n
“Excuse me, I have a call for you,<\/i>” I said as I hand the phone to the woman who just walked into the coffee shop.<\/p>\n
Then I plopped back down in the comfy chair …<\/p>\n
Where I wondered what the hell he was doing here in the first place …<\/p>\n
And waited for Shawna to return with my car.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Disclaimer: The following is my lame attempt at fiction. Though references to specific flirting techniques Emily has employed, unfortunately are non-fiction. But for whatever it’s worth, with the right delivery, they work nicely. \ud83d\ude42 Anyways … You need to read Another Set of Circumstances and Sianna’s Epilogue before any of the following will make sense….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_kadence_starter_templates_imported_post":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[139],"tags":[],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":139,"label":"General"}]},"featured_image_src_large":false,"author_info":{"display_name":"Amy","author_link":"https:\/\/amynews.com\/author\/amy\/"},"comment_info":4,"category_info":[{"term_id":139,"name":"General","slug":"general","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":143,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":775,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":139,"category_count":775,"category_description":"","cat_name":"General","category_nicename":"general","category_parent":0}],"tag_info":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}