Thirteen

Over the weekend I went to a holiday party where I knew two people – a good friend and his girlfriend, who was one of the party hosts.  I do just fine in this kind of setting since I like to meet new people, so I was mingling away until it was time for the white elephant gift exchange.  We crammed everyone into the biggest room, so we were all nice and cozy.  A few minutes into the game, a new guest arrived and I was reminiscent of my interaction with Twelve because this guy also had brown hair back in a ponytail - apparently this is my current type.  I pulled my focus back to the gift exchange, and then the new guy picked his gift out – he went for the fancy packaging, but any pro knows that’s just a trick in this game; he ended up with an am/fm car stereo – I could not stop laughing.  For the rest of the game, we exchanged a few witty comments about his amazing gift.  When the game was over I had to run to catch my bus, so I never got to officially meet him.  My dependency on public transportation is not very helpful.

A couple days later, I decided I needed to find this guy, so I went on to the dependable research place that is Facebook, and looked up the event page for that party and found his name to send him a message that went like this:

Hi Thirteen! Technically you don't know me but I was at the holiday party on Saturday night. I was the girl sitting by the tv (I was the winner of the chopstick set) who could not stop laughing about your amazing car stereo. Sorry for not introducing myself at the party, but I had to run to catch my bus. Without knowing anything about you except that you seem like a fun guy, I wanted to ask if you want to go out with me sometime. Clearly my lack of knowing anything about you means I have no idea if you're single, so if you're not single please ignore this. If you need to check my references to verify that I'm not a complete loon, Anne is the roommate at the party that I know.

Penelope