Monday, August 25, 2008

Random compliments

The other day on a usual sleepy afternoon I went down to the Starbucks thats right down on the first floor of our office building(very convinient indeed) to get some tea..as I was browsing the flovours and debating whether to go for green or black tea latte there was a voice "how are you doing.." I heard the voice so close to my ears that I was startled and turned back to see a 50ish old black guy smiling at me..standing closely behind me..as a natural response I said I'm fine and tried to move away when he threw the next question "Are you a Fijiian or Indian" ... at which point I should say that I was a bit scrared as I work in the city down town and there are lots of homeless poeple all around the place..I was damn sure that the guy was going to snatch the purse or at the leaset ask me to get him a coffee..I took a step back before answering prepared to run ..but then I noticed that the guy was neatly dressed with a leather jacket and most importantly he DID NOT smell bad which is the characteristic of a homeless..so I was convinced that he was just another customer there and said that I'm from India and then he was talking how Fijians and Indians look similar while I was buying my tea and nodding to him and as I was about to turn and go he finally said "Oh you have beautiful eyes." I don't know for Gods sake why he said that may be he wanted to extend the conversation but this time I got really nervous and thanked him hastily and came out of the store..though I was nervous I should say that I do feel good about the compliment later when I think of it...after all I'm a women...don't care from where its coming