Just in case x 2

I've asked the question before in this very blog...what are the odds? It seems that in my life the odds are seemingly much greater than should be expected. Strange and coincidental happenings seem to follow me everywhere that I go. This particular coincidence involves myself and my fellow coworker and friend Brynne (and Julie in an indirect way). I apologize to anyone who reads this story and finds that my accounts of the first half aren't 100% correct, I'm going off of second hand accounts and I can't remember it all perfectly, but for our purposes my description of the events is perfectly fine.

To get to the point there's this guy that works for the organization that runs the South U Art Festival every year. He comes into the store to get his jobs done, and he happens to be about 35 with some kind of haircut approaching mullet status. He also happens to have quite the crush on Brynne, enough so that he chose to ask her if she had a boyfriend one day while effectively creeping her out at the counter. She lied and responded that she did. The very next day this same guy runs into Julie in the alley to Za's and asks her if what Brynne had said was true. She replied that she did in fact have a boyfriend and even inferred that it might be serious. Although discouraged, this older weird man was not ready to give up. He showed up to drop off yet another job the very next day and was helped by none other than Brynne. When he had finished his business with her he started his real business proposition - he laid down a piece of paper with his phone number and uttered the famous phrase, "Just in case."

This story alone is pretty humorous, but it was only made more bizarre by the events that occurred to me the very next day. This story goes back probably an entire month to when this Christian group, "Campus Crusade," came into the store to copy the bible or something. They were there all day and pretty much ran us out of stock on several items. I finally decided to talk to the girl who seemed to be running the show to see if I could order anything for her that would make this all easier on my inventory. We came to a conclusion and I sent a driver to get her specially ordered stock. Once it had come in and I gave it to her she responded with an unusual, "You're awesome!" I was taken a little aback, but I felt good. Brynne and Julie mocked me the rest of the day saying that they loved watching me interact with customers because I'm "cute." I will agree with them by saying that many an old lady at Target used to tell me the same thing when I rang them up at the register....anyway...

These girls returned the day after Brynne's "just in case" and proceeded to once again start killing my cardstock supply. I went up again and talked to the same girl from before and she seemed to be eyeing me. Let me mention for all you readers out there that the girl was tall and decently cute, but not exactly the type of girl I would normally be attracted to. I went about my day until Julie came back to report something rather funny to me. Turns out this girl had mentioned to the counter girls that I was cute and questioned the existence of a girl friend in my life. I was flattered, but told Julie that I would assume that I'm a little too immoral for a Christian leader kinda girl. The crusaders finished and left without any more interaction. About an hour later both Brynne and Julie left their posts at the front to report yet another interesting tidbit. Seems that this girl had returned to the store, in her own car, alone, to pass on a message. She supposedly said, "Give this to the cute guy, just in case." Again, name and number. Two days in a row. Same phrase. What are the odds?