Saturday, April 30, 2005

Life Ceases to be Dull in Minneapolis

It was around 8:15 tonight and I decided to head into Target on my bike to do some spontaneous shopping. I'm on my way, biking down Hennepin with nasty dark clouds covering the sky when it started to sprinkle. I was a bit worried that it might just start pouring and so I turned off of Broadway and started to head home. So I'm at this four-way stop sign and there is this white truck to my right. I think nothing of it as I turn left when suddenly the driver yells "Hey!"
At first I thought it might be just the usual jerk who thinks it classy to honk at me and say shit like, "Can I get your number, I'll call ya." But when I looked at the driver, I noticed that it was Alex, the guy I've talked of before in previous posts, the older guy who is one of my "regular" guests at Target. Knowing that this would inevitably turn out interesting, I stopped at the side of the road and waited for him to pull up. We started talking about the weather and about where we both lived; I found out that he was visiting his mother who actually lives very close to me. At one point he asked me if I had been to any clubs up here. "Oh, I just went to one during Halloween." I said. "I don't really have anyone to go to them with though."
"So you got anything going on tonight?" He asked.
"Just doing some projects for school and I might call up one of my friends that I haven't hung out with in awhile." I told him.
Eventually, Alex asked if I'd want to hang out with him tonight, but I "reluctantly" told him that I was probably going to be hanging out with one of my friends.

So...then he asked if I wanted to exchange numbers....and I obliged. I mean, I'm always up for this kind of stuff that's very "of the moment" and I do love having such stories to tell. I mean, Alex seems like a really nice guy, but as he's older, I just have some slight suspicions as to what his motives may be. Alex asked if I liked zoo's and was saying we should go to the como zoo or something, just somewhere where we could walk around and talk.
As we were getting ready to part I said with a smirk, "So...question."
"Yeah, anything." He replied.
"How old are you?" I asked.
I had been curious about this for I knew he was probably in his mid-30's to 40's and also I wondered if he planned on maybe going to a bar with me or something of the like. He asked me to guess and I said, "30's." He then told me that he was 34. So then he tried to guess my age and said that as he knew I was in school, he knew it'd be around 19-23. I told him I was newly 19 and he said that he would probably have guessed older than that.

Oh man...and just last night J.D. (a guy from my speech class) expressed his "love" for me. These boys! (And man...)

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