Six

I'm a receptionist at a hair salon, and there are definitely a few guys that come in that make me giddy.  One of these guys is Six - adorable, artsy, and super friendly.  Whenever he calls or stops in the salon, we talk like we’ve known each other for ages.  I’ve had a crush on him since the first time he came in, but there’s never been a good time for me to ask him out because I’ve never seen him outside of the salon, and it seems a bit wrong to ask him out while he’s paying for his haircut.  I mean, I guess I could always get his number from our client file, but (a) that’s probably unethical and (b) it’s definitely creepy.  I’m not trying to become unemployed or a stalker here. 

Today he came in for a cut, and we talked about Halloween costumes and plans while he waited on his stylist.  I decided there was never going to be a perfect time to make my move, and his appointment was one of the last ones of the day, so today was the day.  There were two stylists there – Sara and Kim – and another regular client, Scott.  In my mind it was going to be as near as perfect as possible – Kim would finish Scott’s cut first and leave and then it would just be Sara, Six, and me left, and Sara knows that I like Six.  Of course, that’s not the way it went down.  Sara finished first and the three of us talked for a few minutes, and then Sara wandered away while Six paid.  He and I kept talking, and I wrote my number on a post-it note for him about the same time Kim and Scott finished.  Scott came up to pay, and then apparently noticed I was in flirt-mode because he walked back over to talk to Kim while she got ready to leave.  The two of them and Sara were just hanging out five feet away waiting on me because they were all ready to leave, so I sped up things by handing the post-it note to Six and saying, “This is for you.  Definitely hit me up and we’ll go out.”  So eloquent and romantic, I know.  Six looked at it, smiled (genuinely, I think), and said, “Thank you so much. Seriously.”  When he walked out Kim, Scott, and Sara were just laughing at me while I thanked them for giving me time to hit on the client. So not the ideal situation, but it happened.