when I met my keeper...meeting a woman was the last thing on my mind. I was at a family get together at a friend's house...I was tired, relatively unkempt and wearing some old basketball shorts and a T-Shirt. She was an unexpected guest of my friend's sister. Little did I know...
The best way.
One of my recent ones, I had been gardening all day, was covered in dirt/mud/dust, unkempt hair, old dirty ripped jeans (through age and work, not bought ripped), an old t-shirt with loads of holes in it. Very tired and worn out, thirsty and aching.
Contrasting this was my thin framed glasses, which attract some interesting comments. So there was this dirty, tired guy and these spotless spec's.
I went into the kitchen and realised I had no food as I had forgotten to go shopping, due to being focussed on getting a part of the garden finished off, time to slap forehead.
So, got in the car and drove to the local supermarket, as I was, trawled round there to find something to eat, could not find anything that tempted me, so was resigned to going to the local chinese on the way home.
Picked up a few essentials for the morning - bread, milk, eggs and pate.. real basic..
Was utterly focussed on getting what I needed and leaving.. could not tell you if there was another person in the store.
So, stood in the 'basket only' queue, zoned out totally, waiting for my turn so I could get the hell out of there, grab some food from the chinese, go home, shower and sit down to relax and eat.
Then I heard the immortal words 'What an interesting selection, is that your dinner?'
I turned round to face who had said them and watched her light up.
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We enjoyed a nice meal that evening. She went to pick it up while I cleaned up, did not ask for any money, simply asked me what I wanted and where the chinese was, drove to it, ordered it and waited for it, returned back to mine in time for me to finish showering and clean up. Perfect timing.