I have now truly embarrassed myself
This morning I was awake at 4 am and couldn't go back to sleep. So I wound up getting ready for work earlier than usual. I thought about all the times that D's husband was so nice and brought us cappuccino or hot chocolate, and decided to do that myself.
After that fiasco in the fall when I went to Sonic and brought my sister, her friend, and myself large hot chocolates, there's no way I'm gonna get them there again. We figured that they used one packet of instant cocoa... in a 20 oz cup. (and most of those packets say to use only 6 oz of water with them) It didn't even taste like vaguely chocolatey water, and it had the consistency of plain old water. Never again.
Now I had called to make sure they were open (okay, I know it's innately stupid of me to not realize that a place which caters to the coffee crowd would be open REALLY early in the morning...). A woman answered, and I honestly thought, okay, he's not there, it's safe to go in. LOL (Remember, I'm not trying to stalk this guy....) I was thinking that if he was there I'd pay with cash and nobody would know who I am. Didn't have anything but the $100 that Dad gave me for Christmas, and I was kind of embarrassed at what other people might thing I'm trying to say by paying with such a large bill. So I thought I'd go ahead and pay with my credit card that I pay off in full every month (rewards card, and I'm thinking about using that money to buy my oldest nephew a laptop as a graduation present before he heads off to college.) and it wouldn't matter, because that's a common thing now. Still a lot of anonymity with those.
I walk in thinking, "Okay, I can handle this... not a lot of cars out front, so there can't be very many people in there." Well, I was right, there were only two people there. Both worked there and one was him. Eek.
Okay, he doesn't know me from Adam, so what do I have to worry about? I just won't make any reference to teaching, no problem. Besides, he was over in the corner doing something on his computer. Well, he got up and went behind the counter and fixed the drinks while she was ringing them up. (Oops, I forgot about the credit card slip having my name on it.) He seemed like he really wanted to stay turned around backward, and I was thinking that I didn't remember him being so shy before and it seemed kind of strange. Then I thought maybe he was wondering if I was the one he'd been getting the (probably annoying) emails from, and his reaction was that he definitely did NOT want to get to know me.
I made the mistake of commenting about her cough, and she started talking about how many schools are full of sick kids, and I accidentally mentioned "the kids on our team". Then she asked what school I teach at, and what was I going to do, lie??? And there he is standing and talking right along with us about 20% absences required before they close the schools, because of funding, and so on... She said something about the superintendent and funding's importance to him, and because she said she used to work for him, I laughed and said, "Oh, well you already know him then. I ain't saying a word."
The rest was just me picking up the drinks and trying to walk out to my car as if I wasn't incredibly embarrassed that he possibly suspected that I'm the fruitcake. Well, at least I didn't get all tonguetied or trip or something like that.
Got to work, and in my first class one of the girls pipes up with the fact that somebody she knows was asking about me yesterday. I started having this feeling of dread when I realized that she's the one who loves hanging around there. I tried to be casual and asked her who it was, and sure enough, it was him. I acted confused (in reality I was mortified) and got her to explain what it was about. A former student of mine with a very similar last name was there with her and he actually asked her if we were related, (no, she has no S on the end of her name) and the girl said no, but she was in my class last year. (And she absolutely hated me.) The other girl said that she spoke up and that she was in my class now. Since we're getting along really well, I hope she didn't say awful things about me.
All I can think is that my emails have that internet header that most likely shows my first and last name. I guess he just wanted to know so he could fill out a complaint with the police that this strange woman is bothering him. LOL Well, I'm laughing at the moment, but deep down, I suspect that nothing good is going to come of it, and it's likely to be something really, really bad. *sigh* At least I don't have to wonder if he'll figure out who I am... I guess I underestimated him there.
The good news of the day is that I'd forgotten it was D's birthday, and she said she'd take the hot chocolate as a birthday gift. :) And they were all really thrilled to get the surprise hot chocolate (we all had a HORRIBLE day yesterday), which was my whole point in bringing it.
Seems like I can't do something nice for someone without humiliating myself, making tons of people mad at me, or getting officially reprimanded at work (for stuff that never even happened...).
After that fiasco in the fall when I went to Sonic and brought my sister, her friend, and myself large hot chocolates, there's no way I'm gonna get them there again. We figured that they used one packet of instant cocoa... in a 20 oz cup. (and most of those packets say to use only 6 oz of water with them) It didn't even taste like vaguely chocolatey water, and it had the consistency of plain old water. Never again.
Now I had called to make sure they were open (okay, I know it's innately stupid of me to not realize that a place which caters to the coffee crowd would be open REALLY early in the morning...). A woman answered, and I honestly thought, okay, he's not there, it's safe to go in. LOL (Remember, I'm not trying to stalk this guy....) I was thinking that if he was there I'd pay with cash and nobody would know who I am. Didn't have anything but the $100 that Dad gave me for Christmas, and I was kind of embarrassed at what other people might thing I'm trying to say by paying with such a large bill. So I thought I'd go ahead and pay with my credit card that I pay off in full every month (rewards card, and I'm thinking about using that money to buy my oldest nephew a laptop as a graduation present before he heads off to college.) and it wouldn't matter, because that's a common thing now. Still a lot of anonymity with those.
I walk in thinking, "Okay, I can handle this... not a lot of cars out front, so there can't be very many people in there." Well, I was right, there were only two people there. Both worked there and one was him. Eek.
Okay, he doesn't know me from Adam, so what do I have to worry about? I just won't make any reference to teaching, no problem. Besides, he was over in the corner doing something on his computer. Well, he got up and went behind the counter and fixed the drinks while she was ringing them up. (Oops, I forgot about the credit card slip having my name on it.) He seemed like he really wanted to stay turned around backward, and I was thinking that I didn't remember him being so shy before and it seemed kind of strange. Then I thought maybe he was wondering if I was the one he'd been getting the (probably annoying) emails from, and his reaction was that he definitely did NOT want to get to know me.
I made the mistake of commenting about her cough, and she started talking about how many schools are full of sick kids, and I accidentally mentioned "the kids on our team". Then she asked what school I teach at, and what was I going to do, lie??? And there he is standing and talking right along with us about 20% absences required before they close the schools, because of funding, and so on... She said something about the superintendent and funding's importance to him, and because she said she used to work for him, I laughed and said, "Oh, well you already know him then. I ain't saying a word."
The rest was just me picking up the drinks and trying to walk out to my car as if I wasn't incredibly embarrassed that he possibly suspected that I'm the fruitcake. Well, at least I didn't get all tonguetied or trip or something like that.
Got to work, and in my first class one of the girls pipes up with the fact that somebody she knows was asking about me yesterday. I started having this feeling of dread when I realized that she's the one who loves hanging around there. I tried to be casual and asked her who it was, and sure enough, it was him. I acted confused (in reality I was mortified) and got her to explain what it was about. A former student of mine with a very similar last name was there with her and he actually asked her if we were related, (no, she has no S on the end of her name) and the girl said no, but she was in my class last year. (And she absolutely hated me.) The other girl said that she spoke up and that she was in my class now. Since we're getting along really well, I hope she didn't say awful things about me.
All I can think is that my emails have that internet header that most likely shows my first and last name. I guess he just wanted to know so he could fill out a complaint with the police that this strange woman is bothering him. LOL Well, I'm laughing at the moment, but deep down, I suspect that nothing good is going to come of it, and it's likely to be something really, really bad. *sigh* At least I don't have to wonder if he'll figure out who I am... I guess I underestimated him there.
The good news of the day is that I'd forgotten it was D's birthday, and she said she'd take the hot chocolate as a birthday gift. :) And they were all really thrilled to get the surprise hot chocolate (we all had a HORRIBLE day yesterday), which was my whole point in bringing it.
Seems like I can't do something nice for someone without humiliating myself, making tons of people mad at me, or getting officially reprimanded at work (for stuff that never even happened...).
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