Surreal Butterfly
Surreal moments in life:Turning up to the symphony to see well-known politicians and a celebrity at the intermission reception.
Listening to the opening welcome speeches, and watching the celebrity, thinking, 'wow, that guy's a famous actor! And he's standing like, 5 metres away from me!'
Suddenly noticing that said famous actor is actually looking at me.
Oh dear.
Attempt to play cool, and let eyes wander around room. After all, yes he's famous, but he's just a person. Try your best attempt to be nonchalant. But as you do with famous people, your eyes eventually gravitate back to said famous person.
Notice that said famous person is *still* looking at you.
Get a little freaked/shy and wonder if perhaps you're standing too obviously in a place you shouldn't be.
Get a little self-concious and try to edge back a little towards your boyfriend, who you hope has noticed that you're pretty much out on your own at this big-whirl social function. This continues for five minutes before you finally manage to subtly edge into your boyfriend's personal space and he slides his arm around your waist.
Although you have to admit feeling a little disappointed that maybe the celebrity notices that you are in fact taken.
Following the closing of speeches and the return of general social humdrum mixing, your boyfriend comments that he noticed said celebrity giving you the "ten yard stare". So you acknowledge that said celebrity was in fact 'checking you out' and perhaps you did (or maybe didn't) do the right thing in not smiling or acknowledging his presence rather than simply attempting to back away slowly.
Not that said celebrity was in any means your type. Or that said celebrity was even in the *vicinity* of your age group. Or that anything could come out of said celebrity and yourself.
Just a twinge that perhaps you could've done more than simply react by being immediately self-conscious. So titilated that a celebrity could in fact have checked you out in the first place. Although that being said, most likely you were the youngest at the entire function and looked out of place among all the retiring grey-haired balding politicians and the frumpy women in sequined dresses with pancake make-up and big hair.
Of course, with boyfriend in tow, you note the twinges are really just the vanity talking.
posted by Enigmatic Butterfly @ 9:56 am
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