"Are you m.....?"

As a break from thesis suffering, I went to meet LEH for happy hour yesterday. When I got there, she wasn't there yet, so I sat down at the bar, ordered a glass of wine, and started to read the paper.

I heard the front door open and so I looked up expecting it to be her and ended up staring straight at a guy staring at me. I quickly looked away, not wanting him to think I was drinking alone, wanting company. (ugh). I went back to reading my newspaper.

I heard him ask the waitress for a spot for two, and sighed with relief that he was obviously meeting someone.

That is until a few seconds later when he was standing to my right, asking "Excuse me, but are you Mearit?" (which came out sounding like "are you married?")

I didn't quite get that he was talking to me right away, but did have a chance to think to myself, "did he just ask if I was married? What a strange come on." but then in the second it took me to look up from the paper, I realized he was asking me if I was a woman named Mearit. I was incredibly relieved, when I could tell him no I was not Mearit and he smiled and went back to his table.

Sigh of relief: clearly on a blind date- not looking for a date.

Mearit came few minutes after LEH did and she was cute. They sat at their table for two the whole time we were there and seemed to be having a good time.