Creepy

I am back home in Chicago now after two weeks of working in our Chattanooga office. I am so glad to be home. Not only did I miss my husband, but my coworkers in Tennessee were not too eager to hang out with me outside of the office, which left me as my only friend there. Eating meals alone in a restaurant is pretty sad, so I was thrilled to finally be home where there are people who like spending time with me and are happily interested in joining me for a meal.

So today I went to lunch with a friend. Bakers Square is usually our restaurant of choice so that we can indulge in pie, and today was no different. We were seated at our table by the hostess and almost instantly we were approached by our waiter. He looked like a 40-something nerd to the core...the kind of guy who probably spends most of his free time LARPing. We even heard him talking to the neighboring table about his halloween costume that sounded like something he already had in his closet from a previous Ren Faire outing.

He asked how we were, we replied that we were good, and out of courtesy we asked him how he was. He said, "I get to serve two beautiful ladies. I'm doing great!" He also seemed to be feeling pretty great about getting to look at my chest. I was wearing a sweater that covered everything, so it's not like it could have been misconstrued that I was looking for male attention either. The waiter was just plain creepy.

He opened my menu to point out some of their newer items, and while I was busy looking at my choices, my friend later explained to me that the waiter had only been vaguely pointing to the menu because he was focusing his gaze on me, not on the food selections. He walked away to give us a few minutes to look things over and when he came back, I had made sure to have my left hand very prominently displayed. It worked....kind of. In between writing down our order, I saw him glance down at my hand a few times. And then, just to make things extra awkward, he actually said, "Oh shoot. I'm really bummed now cause I just noticed that gorgeous ring on your finger." My friend replied that I was a happy newlywed and that she'd been with her husband for almost 10 years, making sure to point that out so that he didn't switch his gaze to her boobs instead. That didn't, however, prevent him from continuing to be creepy.

When he came back with our food, he made an attempt to compliment me. He said, "I figured out who you remind me of....Donna from "That 70's Show." I reacted with a WTF face, since I look nothing like Donna from "That 70's Show." I'm sure he thought I might be flattered being compared to an actress, but Laura Prepon is a redhead with a body similar to that of a 12-year-old boy. I am a curvy brunette. We look nothing alike.

The rest of the meal, I guess he seemed to realize that he should step back a little with the flirting, or whatever it was that he thought he was doing. And when he brought the check he said, "I hope I didn't scare you too much." Right.

So guys...lesson be learned, as soon as you are made aware of a women's relationship status, please stop your pathetic attempt at trying to "impress" me or whatever. It's just plain creepy.