mission accomplished?

i was like 23 or 24 years of age when my mom decided to set me up with this boy. you know how this story is going to end right?? ughhh...i love my mommy but who told her that was the right thing to do?

anyways...this boy, his name was javier, was the nephew of one of my mother's co-workers. ahhhh...these women setting up their children. why?? my mom sends a picture of me to javier with his aunt. i guess that was the old-school online dating system. one day she comes home from work bearing a phone number. she was so excited. LOL...so i guess i had to call javier.

i don't like this setting up, blind date kind of thing. makes me uncomfortable because for once, i am not the CHOOSER or the CHOSEE...:-P it's just a set up. i'm telling ya'll.

so i called this boy. he was probably my age. i have no clue-remember, this was in the ancient era of no cell phones, emails, text messages. well we are on the phone, for what i can remember it was a decent conversation. of course, the subject of "when are we going to meet" popped up. oh no. what am i going to say or do? since my mom knows his aunt, we decide to meet at my house.

so javier gets there. he was kind of quiet, maybe even a little bit shy. i immediately shut him off because back then shy, quiet men were not my thing (fast forward 10 plus years and that's my weakness :-P) my mom, being the great hostess that she is, asked if he wanted to eat. i look at her like, why??? he's ready to go. well, javier said yes. and he cleaned his plate too. (somewhat of an FML situation)

so we "keep" talking. don't ask me why. he invited me one day to go to the movies. he picked me up. all the way i was scared for my life because he was a careless driver. later i learned he was just "nervous" ummm ok. (i was being hard on this kid) i remember the movie HE wanted to see. cats and dogs (the first one). he knew i liked cats, but that movie? LOL! NO!

while we wait in line to go inside the theatre-someone approaches him and asks for the time. he had a watch. i had one too. he looks at me like they were speaking klingon. i gave them the time and he just smiled "nervously". oooooh, i'm not liking this.

on the way home, he was even worse, driving-wise. as soon as i got home i said bye and slammed the door.

so you might be thinking, poor javier. jessica never heard from him again.

say what? javier started sending flowers to my workplace. like weekly. i might be different-but i don't like flowers. never have never will. here i am asking myself, why is he sending me flowers? it's not my birthday, not valentine's day. no flowers for me! i would give them to co-workers, sometimes to decorate the office, one time i even took them to my mom that was hospitalized-she knew these were javier's flowers though. :-)

since i never called to say thanks for the flowers, the deliveries stopped. and so javier's desire to "please" me.


fast forward probably 5 years and i saw javier at the mall. he looked my way and you'd swear he saw a ghost. i smiled. mission accomplished??