Our Story: How We Met

Our Story: How We Met

I remember it like it was yesterday. I entered work at priceline.com and noticed something or should I say someone different. Sitting next to the usual receptionist was a beautiful young lady. My eyes locked like I was a deer caught in headlights. Luckily, she didn't notice me staring at her until the last second so I was able to save some face and look away before it became weird.

I don't really remember the first time I saw Josh. It was my second week at priceline.com and I was still trying to get a handle on everything. It wasn't until he introduced himself to me that I really noticed him. And notice him I DID!! I remember thinking that he could be an American Eagle model. I quickly emailed my friend Megan to tell her all about him.

 
A few weeks after I had introduced myself to Colleen, I finally mustered up enough courage to ask her out to lunch. It took a little while for my mustering to kick in - I was very nervous and remember walking past her desk and hiding out in the bathroom for a few minutes before I actually asked her out to lunch.

Well he didn't really "ask" me out to lunch. Instead he awkwardly approached my desk startling me as he mumbled out the words ... "You got plans?".

I am pretty sure I said "Do you have plans for lunch?", but who really knows.
 
Anyway - as I was saying. I didn't understand what he was talking about so I simply said "What?"
 
I think I speak for all men when I say that if a hot girl says "What?" after you ask her out it is quite debilitating and it took my last little bit of courage to repeat my request.
I realized that he was asking me out to lunch, but I couldn't go because I had to meet with my boss during that time. He responded okay and as he was leaving I said "Maybe some other time."
What a huge sucker punch to my stomach!! I had been building this up for weeks and now I had been tossed to the side with a weak excuse. I really thought that Colleen was not interested in me and therefore made up a quick reason to say no. Because I was under this impression I purposely avoided her for the next two weeks. Some may say that is a little immature and those people are correct.
I noticed that I hadn't seen Josh in a while and figured he wasn't going to ask me out any more so I decided to take matters into my own hands. He may say that I stalked him because I mysteriously found his desk, but I just say I was being resourceful. I showed up at his desk startling him a little.

 

What Colleen didn't know was that only 10 minutes earlier I went upstairs to mail something and spoke louder than normal ensuring that Colleen would hear my voice from her desk and come running. And it worked like a charm!!!!

Of course you did sweetie. So I asked him if he would like to get lunch together sometime this week. Evidently when you just narrow it to one day mis-communication can occur! Josh, being the charming person he is, turned to me and said ...

"Let me check my schedule." - I really regret saying those words because I proceeded to open my calendar with Colleen watching over my shoulder only to reveal that my calendar was completely blank for the entire week! Yeah - I felt like an idiot, but not wanting to admit that I simply said. "Friday looks pretty open."

I really wanted to laugh, but instead I just cracked a smile. I agreed that Friday was indeed "open" and we set our lunch date for 12 noon. Apparently, Josh thought I would forget or come up with another excuse so he decided ...

To send her an outlook meeting request. Wow - you think I would have learned from the blank calendar experience only minutes before, but I didn't. What is worse than sending the meeting request is that it took Colleen almost an hour to accept it!! I was sweating bullets. For any single guys out there reading this -- please learn from my foibles.

 

Friday came and my Outlook meeting reminder popped up informing me that my lunch with Josh was in 5 minutes. He suggested that we go to Cosi in Darien. I had never been to a Cosi before so I was excited and a little nervous. I took twenty minutes picking out my outfit that morning and even switched my purse.

We arrived at Cosi and Colleen ordered first. It was at this point that the awkward table, which had been so heavily on me, turned.

 

I opened my purse and realized that my wallet was still in my other purse. My face turned so red!! I sheepishly turned around and informed Josh that I didn't have my wallet.

First she gives me an excuse about meeting with her boss and then she "conveniently" doesn't have her wallet. I thought to myself "This girl is playing me!!!" I later found out that both of these "excuses" were 100 percent true.

As crazy as it sounded, he kindly paid for my food and didn't mention it at all. I was still very embarrassed.

 

Despite the wallet speed bump, our lunch date was awesome! I remember that we had a great conversation and the hour flew by in no time.

Lunch was really great! So great that later that day I emailed Josh asking him what are good places to go to in South Norwalk. He emailed me back a list of his favorite restaurants. I then replied and said that my roommate (Megan) and I were going to be in SONO that night if he wanted to meet up with us. I also gave him my phone number.

That's right. I didn't have to ask Colleen for her phone number, I guess it was God's way of saving me from another embarrassing situation. I wasn't able to meet up with Colleen that night, but a couple of weeks later we went out on our first date.
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