4 WAY STOP CRUSH STORY....

HER: Alright, I know it has been a while and recently noticed I still have not posted the "FOUR WAY STOP CRUSH STORY".


Couple years ago while I was working a shift at Christie's on the square, a good friend of mine ran through the back door of the restaurant's kitchen talking about crushes... asked me if I had a crush on somebody. I replied, "NOPE, I don't know anybody", but if I ever have one I let you know..

Shockingly, that week I open my eyes to reality!.

I came to find that for consecutive days, there was a red vehicle and mine meeting at the same 4 way stop, just a couple of blocks from my house.



The first time, like at any other time, the first one to arrive is the one that goes first.

The second time, you notice but it works out the same way...

The third time, I smiled and noticed the red vehicle and the driver smiled, and waved, I then thought.. wow I like that guy, he looks so happy...

The fourth time, I let him passed... so I saw he parked a few doors down the street from the 4 way stop... He was smiling, the I thought to myself... Oh wow, The smiley guy is still smiling =) I think I like him...
By then, I obviously knew whether he lived there or someone he knows lives there.

After that, I started calling him my four way stop crush... a story to go by, that became popular around my circle of acquaintances. Being a chef at a local restaurant, and people knowing me from work, wanting to know about my life.. a little curiosity start getting after them... I obviously didn't grow up in the small town of Salem, so faces didn't look familiar, last names didn't ring names or anything like that.

A couple of months later, coming back from a trip to Peru. Somebody asked me if I ever found who my four way stop crush was...

Again... I replied "Nope, but it I ever see him I will ask his name"...

Now, people don't believe me when I say this... But I am very shy... I just happen to talk a lot... Maybe is my way of being shy... I don't know....

Anyway, one day I was on my way to Subway, just a couple of blocks down the street from my house, it was a beautiful warm sunny day in the fall, the maple tree leafs were turning colors and I was half way day dreaming... then I glanced at someone walking a cat on the sidewalk and that kind of caught my attention.... IT WAS HIM! It was my four way stop crush!!, THAT was THE moment!, It had to be THEN!. So I build myself with courage and turn around.

Roll the window down...
V: Hi there! - I asked. Can I ask you something?
F: Sure.
V: What's your name?
F: Frank. What's yours?
V: Vanessa. Nice to meet you Frank, see you around.

I was half way shaking, I couldn't believed what I had just done...
I new his name!