I had a soft eureka moment recently: I have been going over a strange moment in the past where a beautiful lady I had been at university with asked me a strange question.
We were all sorts of inebriated at the time. She and several other friends had come to visit me for a reunion of sorts. The decibel levels were high as multiple conversations and paralysing laughter filled the air. I was seated, she was standing across from me in the roughly circular formation we were in (about 10 of us), we made what seemed to me to be random eye contact, but was obviously not. She looked directly at me and said to me "So Sizwe, what're you really about? What's your story?"
My mind reeled at such a serious question in the midst of all this chaos. Even as I began to formulate an answer she looked away as if nothing had happened. No one else seemed to be aware of what had just transpired between she and I, thus I was left hanging...
Thereafter she began acting strangely and finally insisted that she must go. I gave it little thought until the next day and on several occasions afterwards. I have never approached her about it in case it truly was a figment of my drunken imagination.
My recent "EUREKA!!!" moment after months of pondering the nature and motives of the interaction was thus: she was flirting with me! She was expressing sexual interest! She was basically saying "Yo, where yo game @!" or something to that effect, and I missed it entirely! I missed it entirely!
Hahahahahaha.. ;- (cough cough) ahahaahhaha!
I then wondered how many other such overtures I had missed as a result of my social ineptitude? Am i walking around with blinkers on? With radars offline?
Hahahahahaha..
My memory is an interesting place to be right now. Its like that show, Cold Case, where they re-open investigations that failed back in the day and apply new forensic techniques...
love indeed!
