ronen-v:

“Excuse me,” you say slightly out of breath to the pretty blonde girl being spoken to by the buff LA guy with outstanding hygiene, and you’re not sure if there were also someone else at the coffee bean using a laptop if you would ask them or this pretty platinum blonde girl (you’re superficial and easy like that) who’s clearly talking with the (standing) LA dude. “I’m supposed to meet a girl” (this part is a little misleading: you are, indeed, meeting a girl, two girls, in fact, but it’s nothing romantic, but leaving that little bit out makes your case something you’re more likely to get the answer you want, because hey, everyone likes helping everyone else out when it comes to getting laid, and guys who care about a girl they’re meeting are ‘sweet’) “but my phone just died. Can I use your laptop to send her a message on twitter?”

There is a pause. The gentleman is clearly unhappy by your presence, but the girl, the platinum L.A. blonde, is all smiles and open body language.

A moment later you’re in conversation as you sign her out of twitter and sign yourself in to DM hydeordie and paintyhands, and she’s saying thank you for coming up and interupting that (they guy is gone, a failed pick-up apparently) and after a remaining minute of conversation this sweet girl is smitten. But you have to run back now because now lexy & alexis know where to meet you, what corner you’re standing on, so you best be standing on it.

after, when alexis says she can’t whistle, and you say “I used to be the guy who couldn’t whistle” then you teach alexis to whistle and go to an LA mexican dinner you were promised in austin texas (it’s good, as promised) and you see Rian for the first time in a while, and he says, he says, I can’t even repeat what he says, about the print you sent him, but it’s honest and heartfelt and you don’t even know what to say, and then after dinner you go to the flowtemple and talk about maybe moving to LA.