Say Anything

November 27th, 2004 by Sarin

Yesterday, on the busiest shopping day of the year, I was walking out of Express and some girl said hi to me and I forgot to say hi back.

It was actually quite dead and I thought I was the only person there. I had did some shopping earlier, had some bags and was walking around like I had a plan. There wasn’t anything there I wanted, so I stayed deadfast on my plan to get the hell out of that mall as fast as possible. If I recall, I saw her from a distance, she looked confused but I kept my composure with my chin up and my gentleman stride. I walked right by her as she was heading into my direction. She was walking towards me a little bit slower but I wanted to make the impression that I was leaving. At the time, I thought she was an employee.

She goes in a whisper soft voice, “Hi”, and it totally didn’t click in my head. I kept walking, didn’t make eye contact and it wasn’t until I was almost out the door when I realized that I was the only person she could have been saying “Hi” to and I didn’t even acknowledge her presence. I try and think about her, and it jumps on me that she couldn’t have been working there because as I was walking by her I got a good glimpse of her handbag. No worker carries that around, plus she didn’t even have a badge.

I turn around, and her back is turned. She’s still in the store and I basically blew it. She was actually not that bad. I then get mad at myself for being unattentive, and the fact that usually I pay alot more attention to attractive girls. But it hits me that I am just so used to seeing attractive girls that it is no big deal.

That makes it twice in one month where I blew a “Hi” response at a retail establishment. I don’t have much to blame except slow thinking, believability, slow reaction time, and eye contact.

But girls, seriously, if you want my attention, speak louder!

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