Ten Minute post II, Nina's Cafe'

My favorite table was open at Nina’s Café. Completely free table, even though it was an otherwise a full café. I happily sat down without giving it much thought. I was being in the moment, completely “blissed” in my new found sense of time.

The man sitting next to me began talking loudly to no one and everyone. He talked toudly about the snow in Montana, about shoveling snow in front of the IDS building. "It is coming" he said over and over, I couldn’t help but think about how much he sounded like the man predicting the end of the world here, except this ending was covered in snow.

That’s when it happened, the cute girl with whom earlier i had exchanged smiles with came over to talk to me. At first I thought she was just coming over next to me to for a piece of the paper on my table. But she steped closer and bent down to my eye level with a smile. “Ya know he is in here all the time, no one would blame you if you moved”. “Oh he sounds harmless” I said. “Yeah he is, he is here often” she said while I woundered how I managed not to run into him before. “Well” I said “if I was writing a book he would be a perfect character to include in it”. She kept smiling as she spoke, holding my gaze steadily as I began to feel her warmth. I began to sweat a little with the excitement of the moment, enjoying the attention, the flirtation. After giving me every opportunity, she smiled and was on her way. Probably after concluding I was married, taken or gay.