So I get back around 3 am last night… and i call up this girl i’m dating… she’s leaving for a business trip the next day… and i want to see her before she leaves.
I go over her place, we talk. and stay up the whole night. Early in the morning, she offers me a ride home in a company limo that’s picking her up for the airport…. at first I decline, as I feel it might be unprofessional for her work image to be seen coming out of her apartment with a guy who DOESN’T live with her… and obviously smells like booze, messed up hair,……..but i’m so tired, that i decide i can’t decline the free ride… i don’t want to walk 20 min on only 3 hours sleep in the past 48 hours….
The limo driver looks at both of us… and mutters “I was told to only pick up one person…. “
“Oh, no, I’m just being dropped off….. ” I mutter… looking at my date, waiting for her to explain what’s happening…. only to see she’s busy checking her blackberry and completely oblivious to the driver’s concerns…. Upon realizing the confusion she just states “Can we drop him off a few blocks away?”
the driver, being polite accepts and we all get in the car…
i can see in the rearview mirror, he is a bit surprised at what’s happening, and thinking “who is this guy?”
My date, promptly realizes this will be the last time we see each other for a few weeks, so puts the phone down and turns her attention to me… At which point she realizes she forgot her personal phone at home…
“Can I have your phone number?” she asks me directly, in a very audible, clear voice.
The driver, looking in the rearview mirror… cocks one eye in utter shameful scorn…