Becky Blue
07-19-2017, 12:08 AM
I recently remembered a really interesting story that happened to me a few years ago. I was travelling a lot for work mostly to San Francisco and found a bunch of amazing girls there and managed to go out about 20 times over the course of 8 months.
We established a routine where we would meet at one of the girl's places, to get get dressed & ready before heading out for a night full of adventures. No matter where we went we always landed up at a late night tiny little Crepery somewhere around the Tenderloin area. The girls would takeover the whole place and I would always end off my night with a delicious lemon crepe. The owner was a very friendly guy with a strong European accent (relevant to the story later) and I must have gone there more than 10 times when my story happened.
I arrived at my friends place with my huge bag of clothes and stuff but realised I was quite early so decided to treat myself to an early crepe to pass the time. In I go in drab male mode for the first time wondering if he will recognise me. I order my lemon crepe, the owner takes my order and says nothing. There is one other customer in the place. i enjoy my delicious crepe and when I go to pay the place is empty. He looks at me and says "Are you?" and stops... waiting for me to answer.
What a dilemma I could simply ignore him and leave or answer him yes or even deny. Given I was overseas and away from my 'normal life' i thought lets have some fun. So i said yes, he broke into a huge smile and said "Wow you look so different, I hardly recognised you." I said "I presume it was my Aussie accent that gave me away?" he said "Everyone has an accent to me, you don't sound different from the other girls" "Geez thats a shock, so how then did you think it was me then?" I asked "Your eyes, when you ordered I thought I have seen those eyes before and as soon as you ordered the lemon crepes I realised, but i wasn't sure. I think this guy is the beautiful girl behind those gorgeous eyes."
Awkward moment.. not because he had picked me but because he had just told me I had gorgeous eyes lol... I said my goodbyes and later that night returned with the girls to a huge smile and a big hello.
I learned a good lesson that one never knows what people are seeing but at the end of the day most people are ok with us.
We established a routine where we would meet at one of the girl's places, to get get dressed & ready before heading out for a night full of adventures. No matter where we went we always landed up at a late night tiny little Crepery somewhere around the Tenderloin area. The girls would takeover the whole place and I would always end off my night with a delicious lemon crepe. The owner was a very friendly guy with a strong European accent (relevant to the story later) and I must have gone there more than 10 times when my story happened.
I arrived at my friends place with my huge bag of clothes and stuff but realised I was quite early so decided to treat myself to an early crepe to pass the time. In I go in drab male mode for the first time wondering if he will recognise me. I order my lemon crepe, the owner takes my order and says nothing. There is one other customer in the place. i enjoy my delicious crepe and when I go to pay the place is empty. He looks at me and says "Are you?" and stops... waiting for me to answer.
What a dilemma I could simply ignore him and leave or answer him yes or even deny. Given I was overseas and away from my 'normal life' i thought lets have some fun. So i said yes, he broke into a huge smile and said "Wow you look so different, I hardly recognised you." I said "I presume it was my Aussie accent that gave me away?" he said "Everyone has an accent to me, you don't sound different from the other girls" "Geez thats a shock, so how then did you think it was me then?" I asked "Your eyes, when you ordered I thought I have seen those eyes before and as soon as you ordered the lemon crepes I realised, but i wasn't sure. I think this guy is the beautiful girl behind those gorgeous eyes."
Awkward moment.. not because he had picked me but because he had just told me I had gorgeous eyes lol... I said my goodbyes and later that night returned with the girls to a huge smile and a big hello.
I learned a good lesson that one never knows what people are seeing but at the end of the day most people are ok with us.