Crushed

I think I am starting to get a crush on my UPS guy. For the last few months, I have gone to the UPS store near me weekly to send in expense reports or ship boxes of stuff to my sisters. So, since he is one of the few people I see on a regular basis in this town (aside from all my new best friends at the spa), we are moving beyond the generic “Hi, How are you today?” sort of conversation.

I hadn’t really thought too much about the situation until a few weeks ago. Two strange events that seemed to wake me up from whatever fog I was in. The first was showing up just as they were closing. Normally, I take care of my UPS errands during the day, but for whatever reason I slacked off until the end of the day. Anyway, as I was sitting in my car squinting to try and read the sign that has their hours posted, I see my guy come to the door and wave for me to come on in. I asked him if he was sure and he said it was no problem. So I went in and saw that the place was dark, the chain curtain they roll out was in place and it looked like he was ready to walk out the door when I showed up. He said he hadn’t shut the computer down yet, so he could still take care of whatever I needed. Good customer service? Hmmmm. This leads me to the second event.

During this same visit when he let me in, he starts making small talk. Ok, so knowing how I feel about small talk in general, you would think I would make some non-committal remarks and then be on my way. (In fact, I think I may have already mentioned this event in another blog.) However, he decided to start talking about the weather. To put this in context, it was July and so the daily temperatures around here were 110 degrees easily. Soooo, seemingly out of nowhere he asks me “Do you know if it’s going to be hot this weekend?” The look on my face was pure confusion, I’m sure. I wasn’t sure if he was serious or trying to be funny. I think at that point he realized the strangeness of the question and was embarrassed. Again, was he just making polite small talk with a customer and not even paying attention to what he was saying? Or was it something else?

I stopped by today to send in another expense report. While I was there I decided to get some information about a special they are running on mailbox rentals. When I first walked in, my guy was helping another customer. However, as soon as I asked the woman helping me about the mailbox deal, he stepped in to tell me all about it. I didn’t do anything yet (special or not, it’s more expensive than I expected), but I’m thinking about it. It would be nice to have a mailbox bigger than a loaf of bread.

Anyway, nothing overt or obvious has happened and maybe it won’t, but I needed to add a little drama over here, so apparently this is it for now. Stay tuned….