I asked C out to lunch...

…and she said yes! She smiled nicely, seemed genuinely pleased. My Tension in Throat index was only 5 on a scale of 10. Tight, but not croaking. I was proud of myself.

C and I work for the same large corporation. I’ve been slightly aware of her since she started last year. We’d occasionally both be at one of those 15-person meetings that mostly wastes people’s time, but it’s not like we really worked on anything together or got acquainted. A few months ago I was moved to a cube on C’s floor. Not in sight of her, but I see her in passing more often. And I realized 1) she is a fine-looking woman, and 2) she often gave me a very nice smile. OK, I’m not a very natural flirt, but it did eventually occur to me that she might be flirting with me, and might welcome an overture. Then I went through a period of wondering if I had any chance, because she appears to be, I’m not kidding, about 20 years younger than me. I recently got past that, and decided that yes, I was going to ask C out. As reported here.

I stalked C just a bit, going out of my way to go down the aisle nearest her cube several times a day. She usually wasn’t there. This afternoon she was, and the adjacent cubes were all empty. The best moment imaginable, the closest I was going to get to privacy. I walked right up, and with no small talk at all I popped the question. C said yes, she’d like to. And soon we had a plan, for tomorrow! Just lunch in the company cafeteria, but it might be a start. I think by tomorrow afternoon I’ll have a good idea if my next step is going to be to get closer to C, or go off in a different direction. And taking steps is a good thing to do.

Writing this blog is making me bolder. I declared my intention to ask C out, and that made it easier to do. I’ve declared my intention to find a femdom relationship, and that makes it more likely.