Was working out at the gym yesterday and was doing butterflys with free weights (laying on my back on a bench doing chest expansions basically) and I see this pretty young latino girl's face pop into view above me. She is smiling down at me and tells me,
"I have a boyfriend but I just wanted to let you know that you look exotic without your glasses."
Trigger Desertman's dumbfounded silence then awkward somewhat shy smile before he says, "Well, thank you sweetheart.", without ever sitting up from the bench in mid-press.
Then she chuckles and nods and just walks off and out of the gym.
I have had girls tells me I am "cute" and "sexy" and "hot". I have never had a girl tell me I am "exotic". I have a beard going now (no real reason, the girl I am "frequenting" says she likes it, so, I'm doing it for her basically) and I took my glasses off when I started to work up a heavy sweat (my glasses will fog from my own body heat, it is annoying) and my eyes are getting lighter and lighter the older I am getting (turning from light brown to green). Edited to Add: I just realized I kind of went off on a tangent here. My point was, I think this might be why I am getting "new" comments. Because I look different these days. Exotic is a strange comment to give a white redneck from East Texas.
I have now become the Exotic Desertman.
Hmmm.
