I'm sure most, if not all, retail salesmen or salesmen in general have the same dream, which rarely, if ever, comes true at all: A salesman always has the fantasy of helping a fantastic looking girl and, somehow, outside of the workplace, ends up getting together with the girl, which leads to better things and, perhaps, a foreseeable future with this girl.
Well, my friends, this is the second fantasy come true for me, which guys always have but never end up having their fantasy fulfilled. The first which came true for me was the "stripper incident." I don't think this has been posted on my blog or site yet but it will one of these days.
A few years ago, back in the PI days, I used to go to a local strip joint (not full-stripping, may I mind you because that's not allowed in PSL because this is the Losers town who can't get the full things in life but that's another topic). After going to the strip joint for a few days, I was introduced to this stripper girl. We started having nice conversations and I was paying her bills a little during that time. lol! One thing led to another and I ended up taking her home, well, actually, going to her home one night and one thing led to another for a few days and then..... she decided to be just "friends" (which was stated clearly on my voice mail right after I got out of the prison) And that was the end of that but it was still a fantasy fulfilled, which most guys don't have the luxury of having.
Now onto the main focus of this post: the salesman fantasy.
Like I said above, it's a salesman's dream to assist an amazing looking girl and end up being with this girl, somehow, outside of the workplace. Some salesmen act all flirtatious and end up getting their number or giving the girl their number but I find that unethical and immoral as a salesman. After all, you're working for a company and are supposed to act and be professional. Being flirtatious is not being professional. A guy who used to work in my area did that to a fathers daughter (of all girls) and ended up getting switched to inventory. He finally left the store. If he didn't, I would have gave his ass a reason to leave.
It all started Sunday (the 26th) when I was working in my usual PC area. Being the so-called "supervisor" when my supervisor is not around, I usually walk around the PC area to see how everything is going and to shadow a few of my fellow associates to see if they are recommending everything, seeing if everything they are saying is not BS, and chiming in to add in stuff they missed, such as some stuff missing from explaining the Geek Squad service and/or the service plan. I ended up shadowing a very good associate and friend of mine a little, who was helping out a very nice and, obviously, attractive girl in the area with a laptop. We starting doing sort of a team sale where he would mention something and I would chip in with my thoughts about it and recommendations. A few minutes later, he went to get the laptop and I was alone with customer. We started talking for a bit about where we were both from, why we were in this part of FL, what we want to do career-wise, and many more interesting to nobody but ourselves kind of stuff. The other guy came back with the laptop and I ended the conversation with a quick introduction to myself and got her name (which is a pretty unique and sweet name, btw) and shook her hand and ended it from there. Now, some may say that was being flirtatious but I would think of it as a normal conversation to kill time while the other guy was looking for the laptop. I did not ask nor did I give my number or receive hers. I actually was not even thinking about that sort of thing anyways. She went up to the front with the other salesman and the sale was completed up at the front. Another thing to mention, which kind of has to be pointed out was the fact that she was with two guys as well, which is why I was not really trying to hang around with her anyways because I assumed one of them was her boyfriend. Nothing else really happened during that day.
A day passed and I check my wonderful MySpace account like a lot of cool dudes do and came across a message in my inbox from a girl who kind of looked a little familiar. It turned out it was the girl I had helped out that day with the laptop. She wanted to go back to the back the next day and thank me for helping her. I was pretty damn surprised and also excited, in a way, with this message. After all, this was some cute girl I met for the first time at work and she just, out of the blue, sends me a message on my doofusy profile. I'm usually sending the girls the messages and never getting a response back. This is the thing I thought would never happen in my dull life. She also said some positive comments regarding my profile as well, which I was surprised about too. Long story short, we have been chatting online back and forth for a couple days now and things have been going great so far. One thing I'm going to do is take it slow this time because this is one fantasy I want to last longer than a week!! I'm actually, after thinking a considerable amount, at the time of my life where I'd like to have an actual relationship with a girl and not the "one night stand" kind of things anymore. Even though we have not gone on a date or anything yet, she seems like a pretty cool girl so far, one of those rare girls with beauty and brains. ;-) I give her the credit for saying that one though because it fits her description perfectly. Oh, and I ended up making an ass outa me and not u because those two guys were not her boyfriends. That should be a lesson to all of you out there who still make assumptions without getting the facts first!!
A couple more things I need to focus on controlling is to not get all emotional like I did with the girls in the past, not to be too caring about her yet because she is not my girlfriend and it is too soon to tell whether she will be or not, and there are some more things but I do not know if those other things are actually good things or bad things which is why I will not post that stuff here. ;-) After all, I can't reveal all of my secrets because there will be too many guys trying to act like me and not like themselves!
So, that is a major update I figured I'd share with the 4 of you reading this. I hope everything goes well this time around and not blow up in my face like all of the other fantasies I had in my life so far; girls, job, car, etc. There has to be a time in my life where I can actually get something where it doesn't turn out to be a lemon or make me more broke than I already am, or someone who I can actually care for and not screw me out of $1000's of dollars or put a big ass knife in my chest after being with this person and sharing my heart and sole with this person, only after having everything I gave just thrown back at me like it's that last drop of orange juice in the container nobody drinks because it's left with that nasty bitter pulp! I could have had a better analogy but it's almost 4:30a now and I'm ready for bed.....
On that note, have a great night and I'll keep you guys (even though only 4 or 5 of you) updated!! Feel free to leave me any comments, complaints, or tips!
Later,
Justin
PS> It took 5 years for this fantasy to come true! The other one I had took a week so maybe this one will last longer. Time will tell...
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