7th Floor Girl

As I walked from the el to my building after a hard days work on Monday, I noticed an attractive girl walking on the other side of the street. I thought to myself, "It would be swell if she lived in my building."

As luck would have it, she apparently does. We arrived at the door roughly at the same time. We walked in, both went to the mailboxes and then to the elevators. As an added bonus, she went to the bank for the lower floors like mine. Once we got in the elevator, with another guy, we exchanged smiles, and hers was very pretty.

It was a pleasant bonus, as she was by far the best looking girl that I have seen that lives here. Which is a pretty good compliment.

This morning, I woke up early to do my laundry, showered, got dressed and started my day. I pushed the down button, and as luck would have it, she was in the elevator again. She gave me another smile when I stepped in, which I returned. As it was the morning, I already had my iPod on and the elevator was crowded, I left it at that.

Afterwards, I began to worry that perhaps you only get so many smiles before you are written off. Or perhaps you would continue to get smiles, but that would set the limit, you couldn't move past them. I figured I had some time, as it is pretty random to bump into the same person, especially when I had never seen her before (I am pretty sure I would remember).

However, today on my way home, I looked up and saw her again walking to the door at about the same time as I was arriving. This time she was on her phone ahead of me. She stopped to check out the prices in the beauty shop on our first floor and I passed her. I went and got the door and held it for her. As she entered she said, "How do I keep bumping into you?"

I responded, "I don't know, I guess I'm just lucky." I am not sure if the last part was sweet, suave, creepy or what, but I don't think it matters as she was again on the phone and I don't think she heard me. We again went to the mailboxes and the elevator bank. Other people got on the elevator, including a women in a wheelchair. So we let that one go by and made some small talk. Quickly we got in an empty elevator and went to our respective floors. I took the opportunity to introduce myself, as I only go a few floors. So now I have her name.

After I went for my run (stupid shin splint, you hurt me), I showered and ran to the store. As I passed the beauty shop, she was in there getting a pedicure. I got a smile and a wave.

So I am on first name, smile and wave basis. Just have to figure out how to move to the next couple steps. Should be fun.