when i was in the air force and attached to an army post in zweibrucken, germany
i was with some friends in a restaurant in another part of germany and surprisingly a waitress there couldn’t take her eyes off me as though i were a famous movie star
she wasn’t the waitress at our table and i hadn’t spoken to her in the little german i knew from 2 years of college german at the u of maryland that offered college courses on the army post
she was quite pretty and sometimes i wondered why i didn’t talk to her and possibly had a serendipitous romance with her and if that lovely german waitress could have been the love of my life
i’ve had other situations like that i never pursued
maybe missed opportunities
i think it’s because i always preferred to know a woman a little instead of blindly pursuing her
and i never cared for trying to pick up a woman i didn’t know
or maybe i wasn’t bold enough to take that kind of risk for love
though i did like the female attention and was always surprised by it
bob boyd