...not a date but...
So, my junior year, I used to see this beautiful brown eyed brunette in the HUB every Tuesday and Thursday. We would make eye contact, smile, and I never got up enough nerve to ask her out, or even talk to her. After a while I am pretty sure she was annoyed I never even made any move.
I would see her around campus a few times, but again - I did not get up enough confidence to say hello.
Lost track of her (assume she graduated and moved on)....all I knew about her was that she was from the Philly area (MontCo, I think).
Anyway, fast forward a few years, and I am flying to from Philly to Miami for the PSU-Miami game (the one where Tony Sacca got tired).....I get off the plane and head downstairs to baggage, where a friend of mine is picking me up. I go down the escalators and there she is....looking just as good as she did in my junior year....she sees me, and I see her, and by this time, I am a little more confident of myself....so I walk up to her:
Me: Hey, don't I know you from someplace?
Her: Penn State. The Hub.
Me: So, are you in town for the Miami game?
She looks to a guy taking bags off the carousel...
Her: No, I am going on a cruise. On my honeymoon.
She looks again at the guy taking bags off the carousel.....
Her (softly): You had your chance.
If someone would have cut my arm off right there, it would not have hurt as much.
I see Tony Sacca every now and then, and every time I do, I invariably think of the brown eyed girl that got away, on the weekend of the game where he got tired...