… that the lovely young woman, likely mid-twenties, who I caught eyes and smiles with at Home Depot last week, was actually interested in this old man? I was just leaving the store, empty handed, and she was working checkout. Talking with two other co-workers. We locked eyes as I approached the checkout area, and she smiled so very nicely, and our eyes locked. It definitely wasn’t a customer service smile, I felt a difference. It held for an eternity in my head, though at best four seconds. Though I smiled back my head went into, “don’t do that, you’re three times older, you’re being a perv”, so I looked away and headed toward the exit. But of course I had to pause and look back… and there it was. Same smile, same eternal four seconds. “Okay,” my tingling brain said, “you’ve been hanging out on Reddit too long”. Yet I headed out the door thinking “REALLY?” And my gods… so beautiful.