{"id":251,"date":"2008-09-19T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-19T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/verastic.com.s96953.gridserver.com\/site\/?p=251"},"modified":"2008-09-19T04:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-09-19T04:00:00","slug":"he-had-me-hello","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/verastic.com\/site\/social\/he-had-me-hello.html","title":{"rendered":"He Had Me @ Hello"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Wednesday, I went to Sam&#8217;s Club to buy some stuff.  My intention was to pay cash for some stuff, and then pay with my card for the rest because I needed change to go to the African Store, and I don&#8217;t like paying with card @ the African store.  No, I don&#8217;t trust my own people.  Sad, I know.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, I was in line, very distracted, thinking about God-knows-what.  Prior to it being my turn to pay, I had everything figured out.  I knew exactly what items I was going to pay for with cash and what items I was gonna pay for with my card.  It got to my turn, I offloaded my items from my cart, and then the cashier said, &#8220;Hello, how are you doing today?&#8221;  Kai!  My people, that was how this boy just scattered my brain.  He even had the balls to expose his white set of teeth and show me his beaurriful smile.  It didn&#8217;t help that his voice was nice too.  Yes, I have a male-voice fetish. <\/p>\n<p>All the time I had been standing in line, I had not realized just how fine the cashier was.  If I had, I would have switched lanes with immediate alacrity.  Why?  Fine boys confuse me.  They disrupt me.  They discombobulate me.  I don&#8217;t stand and stare or gawk at them, so it&#8217;s not like they make me walk into poles or something (<em><strong>na jazz?!<\/strong><\/em>).  It&#8217;s more of a mental thing.  I&#8217;m usually organized (<strong><em>even mentally.  I mean, I arrange my thoughts too!<\/em><\/strong>).  Fine boys just throw me off and make me forget what I was doing\/thinking.  They spoil things.  They wreck my mind.  They make a total mess of my mental plans.  They &#8212; well, you get the idea.<\/p>\n<p>All this boy had to say was, &#8216;hello,&#8217; and next thing I knew, I was sliding my card and paying for everything.  As I was signing for my transaction, I was thinking to myself, &#8216;<em><strong>You big dummy, you weren&#8217;t supposed to put everything on your card<\/strong><\/em>.&#8217;    Funny thing is, I&#8217;m not someone who is so big on looks when it comes to dating.  I mean, I cannot define physical beauty to you.  I tend to fall for other things like the voice, the crazy sense of humor, playfulness, intelligence, not being into parties (or at least being partied out)&#8230;etc.  I mean, beauty is in the eye of the beholder, right?  I&#8217;m usually the one who says a guy is fine and then friends are looking @ me like I&#8217;ve lost my good sense.  So yeah, other things attract me first, I think.<\/p>\n<p>As if that was not bad enough, the boy even smiled at me when I was leaving and told me to have a nice day.  Nice day, my foot!  lol.  Okay, obviously, he was only doing his job, but I needed him to not do it so well.  It was messing with my psychology.  Fine boys are a distraction for real.  I suddenly feel like writing an entire article about what I want from my husband.  Hmmmm.  <em>Interesting.<\/em> <\/p>\n<p><strong>Note to my future husband<\/strong>: Don&#8217;t be threatened by this admission.  I might space out of our conversation for a few seconds (minutes) when a fine boy is passing, but it will never, ever change how I feel about you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Wednesday, I went to Sam&#8217;s Club to buy some stuff. 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