... and the reason I'm blogging about it "today" is coz I saw him outside of my work place for the first time today !! At a place where half-of-this-city shows up every weekend...
But anyway.. getting back to this dude-who-looks-like-this-dude-I-know...
I noticed this guy pretty soon after I joined work... He stands out... I think he's like 6'5"or so.. has long hair.. big chin+jaw... so.. whatever.. he stands out !!
But the reason I noticed him... is coz he looks like-this-dude-I-know..
Now I'm a friendly person... I smile a lot at people... its jus something I do...
but this guy isn't that type..and that's ok.. coz a lot of people are like that !!
So this is what happens.. everytime I pass him in the hall... or in the cafeteria.. I just have this urge to peer at his face and think to myself... "DAMN..he looks-like-this-dude-I-know" !! Now no one ELSE at my workplace .. knows this-dude-I-know.. so I can't really discuss this eerie fact with anyone else..
Maybe its all the keeping-to-myself bit that has got me trapped... but I just can't help staring at him.. EVERY SINGLE TIME I pass him by.
So this guy (as I mentioned before) is MUCH taller than the average male software engineer.. and I'm barely average height.. With the result that... whenever I cock my head to catch a glimpse of him... he cleanly notices it !! Now I'd smile if he would... but he doesn't.. so...
And since I've done the peering-bit on more than one occasion.. I think he has gotten some vewy vewy wwong ideas about my noble intentions... He thinx I have a wittle cwush on him...
I can tell by the way he smoothly looks away everytime our gaze meets...
Now I COULD solve this little issue by "pretending" to not notice the 6 foot 5 inch frame of this dude-who-looks-like-this-dude-I-know...
but I couldn't care less about what he thinks.. and I enjoy acknowledging the uncanny resemblance way too much to stop it...
:)
So its a fun activity every day at lunch... I look around.. till I catch sight of this dude.. and eventually he looks in my direction... catches me looking at him... and quickly turns his head away..
So a couple of weeks ago... for the first time since I've noticed this guy.. I caught this guy staring at me... (maybe i was looking REALLY hot that day or something .. :P) and I totally got the feeling that if I smile and stop today.. I could get to know this dude-who-looks-like-this-dude-I-know.. coz he totally seemed to want to stop and talk (I gather facts like these from the time-duration of eye contact they make with me..and other things that I'll mention in some other blog some day).. I knew I could stop today.. and talk to him... maybe even hTELL him..that he looks like this-dude-I-know... Hence putting an end to the everyday-awkwardness etc...
But here's the irony.. I was TOTALLY in a rush that day..
I was off to meet this-dude-I-know .. yup..and this is actually the DUDE.. who the dude-who-looks-like-this-dude-I-know ACTUALLY looks like !!...
And I was bloody late.. So NATURALLY I had no interest in stopping and talking... and I didn't...
After that day... we're back to the same awkward glance-and-stare situation that we were at before..
g'nite,
me
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