A Story

"And then what", I said, anxious to hear about the turn of events.

"Nothing." my friend on the other side of the phone said.

"Nothing?" I said in disbelief.

"I said nothing." He re-affirmed.

"What?!" I said with a hint of incredulity. "How can you just say... nothing?!" It was my way of saying that that wasn't good enough.

"She reached her floor, walked away and I said nothing. The story of my life."

It started all with boredom from monotony. My friend, being in a junior position in a company of high academics, decided to go to San Francisco to attend the unveiling of Intel's latest chip. The trillion-operation chip. Or terraflop chip.

Once he got there, he reckoned there was easily 10,000 engineers bunched up in the area. And in 10,000 of them, at least one had to be cute.

I thought about it for a moment as he was relaying this information to me. It was a lazy Saturday night and I just happened to call him, to check up on him. The truth is, I had an experience two days ago, and he went above and beyond to help me with that. So, I felt grateful for him. And I decided to call him, to say hi.

He continued on... he said he sat on one conference, he saw one cute lady engineer. She was stunning, and had a cute rear end. He said he always look at the rear ends of girls, and this one had a curved one and she had a nice body to go with it. She had brown hair, not completely blonde.

And what he said he did next, surprised me... He started a staring contest.

Now, from the place where I came from--from where both of us came from, staring is considered totally rude. You will get annoyed, angry stares of even a slap on the face if you do it on someone you don't know.

But he was on a different land. And people behaved a little differently... And so a staring contest continued...

What happened next surprised me even more. As the conference ended and he was about to head up to his hotel room, he took one final glance at the girl he has been eyeing on for the past hour.

He got into the elevator. The elevator door didn't close immediately. And someone was running towards it. This was a conference full of geeks and nerds. Someone running towards the elevator does not surprise him. Everyone seems to be on a hurry and geeks aren't known for their calm collected demeanor. So he just waited, patiently until the person appeared...

It was the girl!

She was smiling and staring at him... "Boy oh boy!" I told him giddily.

"Hi," they both said to each other...

~~ The End ~~