Encounter ~ Casual

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(if the poll is still open, please let me know what you think!)

At a mostly civilian game night at Star's, I was wearing a long dress.  I went into the little back room where there is a refrigerator to get a soft drink.  One of the guys followed me in for the same purpose and he said "that's a beautiful dress but you'll find that we're more casual here."  I smiled and said "this is about as casual as I get."  He shrugged, we got our drinks and headed back to the game.

I just realised I never wrote about that night!  I'll have to either do that or just extract some encounters.

Encounters ~ Observations

Please take the quick poll: are your ears pierced?

I went to two civilian game nights in July.  About half of the games were there both times.  The first time, I wore this around my neck:

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It's a bit hard to see, but the shorter chain says "Meg."  It's much more visible here (from my Pizza night out):

A couple of times, when I was introduced and people weren't sure of the name, I said "you could cheat" and pointed to my necklace.

In the next game night, I wore this:

During one game, someone new to many of us came in.  As I was being introduced, one of the guys who I had met at the previous night said "where's your 'Meg' necklace?"  I said "it didn't go with this necklace so I had to leave it at home."  He said it was a nice necklace and we moved on.

It's nice to be noticed.

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Encounter ~ What Did She Say?

After dinner, I paid the waitress and left a tip.  It was not your typical type of sit-down restaurant.  They used a variation on the "Five Guys" format: order your food at a counter then pick it up and leave; or order your food at a counter, find a table, and the waitress brings you your tray.  There was no real service, but she did bring me my food and she seemed very nice and attentive, so I left a tip.

As I was heading for the door, she gave me a huge smile and said "thank you so much, honey!"

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Encounter ~ OPI

Now and then, I'm going to add little pleasant encounters to my Wednesday "Simple Pleasure" posts.  These will be bits I missed from previous outings, or shopping encounters, or just teasing civilians, that y'all may enjoy hearing.

At one of the previous civilian game nights (that I never wrote about), one of the women (L) sitting next to me looked at my hands and said "OPI!"  I was confused for a moment but she showed me her fingers and said "I love OPI!  What shade is that?"  I told her, and that started a three-way conversation about the merits of OPI and their new "Euro" and "Bond Girl" collections.  My toes were recently done in Big Apple Red and I shared them as well.  L declared the three of us "the OPI girls" and we kept that designation at later game nights.

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