Drinks!!!

A simple word... with a simpler meaning as well, may be used in different context to express different things, but never realised it can be topic and turning point for rest of the evening.

It so happened that, with failing of the every plans we made, we decided to meet up casually by the Victoria park and just have a bit of chitchat. No big plans as all the plans which were made were crashed down. With the clock ticking 6pm, met at the garden, walked around for not even a minute and then decided to walk towards city centre so that I could catch the bus to my home and she could be walking back to her home. She had been on a trip to Europe. Though they call it whole trip to europe, its just a bare bones of europe, literally few cities here and there and name it trip to Europe. With obvious reasons we happen to discuss the Europe tour experience with shifting topic to personal likes and dislikes in matter of food, place to visit just a name a few. With not even half way towards the city centre, the topic had completely faded and silence was filling in the gaps prominently .

It so happened for me to be a step ahead of her, I was in my own thinking in lines of what should we talk.. though we see each other at work place literally every week end, but there is nothing as such going on between both of us. This was the first time ever I met her outside the work place. As far as I remember, I do not recall meeting any of my female friends in a one to one situation where do not know her for at least a year if not more. We hardly knew each other for 6-7 odd months where mostly meet on our week end part time job running between customers on our job as Customer Advisors.Suddenly she spoke- Drinks!! shall we go for drinks? With the fastest reflex reaction i remember, i turned round and only one word came out of my mouth .... WHAT?... She knew that I do not drink alcohol and even I was very sure that she never drinks. In that situation, such a question from her was just completely out of blue . With such a reflex from me did scare her for a fraction of second, and trying to hold her self she just spoke out, soft drinks, coffeee.. thats all i mean...

Still we ended up pulling each other on to going in for a alcoholic drink though neither of us wanted to have one... Towards the end of the walk to city center, we ended up having a Coffee and a cake at a cafe with no other minute filled with silence.

Drinks! worked out to be a very good ice breaker, try out some times irrespective of u drink or not.. worth trying..