Lunch For One

I found myself in the mood for company today, so invited a co-worker to join me for lunch. It wasn’t someone I knew very well, but she had stopped by desk a few times to chat me up about the Lakers, so I figured… what the hell? I was hoping to go sooner rather than later, as I was already starving, but she said she had some billing that had to be completed first, so I agreed to wait another half hour.

Finally, it was time to go, and she sent me an IM saying she was about to head over… I waited several minutes for her to come by and started to wonder where she was, when I saw her walking with the office HR lady. She saw me and walked over…  “Ready?” I asked.

“I can’t go to lunch after all…  they just let me go.”

 oh.

She looked a bit teary-eyed and I truly felt awful for her. She asked for my email so we could stay in touch and chat about basketball, so I said “Sure.”

Today ended up being a lunch-for-one kind of day after all…