Chance Encounters

So, I was at the mall last night trying to find a birthday present for my mom, thinking that a semi-civilized place like Lenox Square would have a Williams-Sonoma, but honestly I couldn’t stand being in the mall long enough to find it.

Anyhow, I was wandering around, and walks past this seriously cute little redhead (and we all know how Shaun feels about redheads). And I am shamelessly checking her out because I am shameless like that on the rare occasion that I find myself at the mall because I expect never to see these people again. And while I’m shamelessly checking this girl out, I think to myself that she reminds me of a girl I went to high school with.

So she walks past, and I notice her noticing me noticing her, and I get that little noticed-by-a-cute-girl pride, and then I hear her say, "Shaun?" And it turns out it really was the girl from high school.

So we stop and chat for a few minutes. She’s headed out of town in the immediate future for eight months, and I think what a damn shame that is. And the damn story of my life, too. I did get her number and her email, though, and promised to keep in touch.

It got me thinking about how stupid high school is and how stupid we are in high school. I remember trying to convince myself that I should be interested in this girl, and I don’t know why I never let myself be. I mean, I wasn’t exactly a catch. I guess it was really a matter of not having learned through bitter experience just what to look for in a girl. But there she was, sweet as ever, and even cuter than I remembered. Another lost opportunity.

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