I smile at girls a lot.

With my SKICK (sidekick) in hand and in 3 conversations at once, I was walking into the library at school and was confronted with a dilema: talk to the beautiful brunette girl sitting in the lobby by herself who just looked up at me and smiled back or... keep walking. Although walking is fun, in a split second i quickly made the decision to talk to "what's her name". But what would i say? What reason does one have to just spark up conversation out of the blue other than the obvious, "I THINK YOU'RE HOT"?

So in some irregular spark of immediacy and confidence, i went right up to her and said,

"Excuse me... do you know what time it is?"

And sure enough, in a generally expected reaction she looked up at me, smiled and looked down at my SKICK in my hand and replied jokingly (i hope),

"Doesn't that thing have the time on it?"

Ouch! She got me. It was funny really... I felt embarassed that she had figured out my plan to avoid reality by posing a non-important question to evade nervous awkwardness. But just so you know... it worked. Go figure! She went on to tease me about how obvious it was that i asked her the time just to talk to her. Without getting into all the details... We talked for a while and i learned that "what's her name" is actually named Rachael, along with many other things.

I learned and observed a few things today...

1. Girls know when you are nervous
2. They are smarter than most guys give them credit for, and...
3. In an age where technology reigns supreme, we have almost lost what used to be a very common part of everyday communication, asking for the time.