foot in mouth disease

I was in Star­bucks mak­ing fairly reg­u­lar stop. I go so often that most baris­tas know what I order. The man­ager knows my drink and can never remem­ber my name so he called out “Hello grande non-fat Caramel Mac­chi­ato!” and in response I replied “Hello tall dark, half-sweet!”. As the words left my mouth my brain started to scream “shu­u­uut uuuup!” but it was too late. He laughed and started to blush.

The barista behind the bar smiled a weak smile at me, I think it was a look of pity. I said that that must be the lamest Star­bucks joke ever and that they hear that all the time, I didn’t hear the barista’s reply and the man­ager was still chuck­ling and said that he hadn’t heard a cus­tomer say it before.

I have no idea why I said that. He is kind of cute and we have made idle chit chat before but I don’t know why I felt com­pelled to try my hand at flirt­ing. I was never good at it when I was sin­gle and being mar­ried just makes it even more awkward.

So now I feel self-conscious about going back. I’m sure that they laughed it off and it will be for­got­ten but how do I for­get. When this hap­pens to me I tend to dwell on it far too long. Reliv­ing it over and over isn’t going to make me feel any bet­ter. I just want to be able to get my cof­fee with­out feel­ing like a fool.

When was the last time you put your foot in your mouth? Did you do it while flirt­ing? Is flirt­ing as a mar­ried woman accept­able? Leave a com­ment and tell me what you think.

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