I appreciate that NN, I sincerely do.
It was kind of a weird deal NN. She's the executive assistant to the superintendent of the school my son goes to. She doesn't work in my son's middle school but over in the administration offices. She was over at his school delivering some paperwork when I was there for the last round of parent-teacher conferences a few weeks ago. Walked into the office to sign in and there she was talking to one of the other office workers. Of course we recognized each other but She had moved away to Pennsylvania for almost 16 years with her former husband, that's where he was from. She moved back here after he passed away. He died about three months after their son was born and she wanted to be closer to her family. Like I said, I knew her for several years in school but never really thought much about it, too much of a geeky nerd guy to ask anyone out back then. She's been working for the school for a little over a year. I've just never ran into her at any functions or anything like that. She lives about 5 minutes from me in the suburb of Fayetteville I live in. We kept talking in the office for a while, just "how you been" type stuff, but she gave me a quick hug when I left which I thought was nice. I did the parent teacher conference thing then was walking out of the school with my son past the office and she was still there. She waved and smiled at me, just a really, really nice smile. Without giving the matter much thought, which, coincidentally coincides with the very few good decisions I've made in my life, I told my son to wait for a sec, detoured back into the office, asked if I could speak with her alone for a second and just flat out asked her out. I figure it was either get a "how dare you!" or a polite "piss off!"..either way I would be no worse off than before. She had an college alumni get together from the U of A that upcoming weekend and asked if I'd like to go with her. Sure, beats staring at the walls Saturday night like my usual weekends I figured. We ended up having a really nice evening just talking, getting to know one another at the banquet. I took her to dinner afterwards and we had a nice time. She has a two year old son who is her world. I very much liked how dedicated she is to her son, I blah all the time about my kid also and she didn't seem to get bored with me, at least not openly. But, we had a nice evening which turned into a second date, then a third, and fourth. Most of the dates have just been my son and I coming over for dinner....I told her my cooking sucks beyond all manner of that which is holy, so we've actually had a few home cooked meals the last few weeks which has been nice. I like playing with the two year old, it reminds of when my son was that age and fun as hell to roughhouse with and just wind him up and watch him go. So far, so good, we'll see I guess. Have a good weekend ma'am.