Drove C both days to our offsite work because his car was having issues since last week. I got us coffee in the morning and he was really appreciative and that he wasnāt used to people being that nice to him (particularly getting coffee for him).
My hand kept brushing against his knee/thigh when I needed to shift gears. He apologized for man-spreading and I chuckled and said itās fine. We had some good chats while I drove.
At the end of the shift he needed to check into the hotel our company got for him for the week. We got to the lobby and stood by him as he did the check in process with the front desk because there wasnāt really a close place for me to sit down at while he did that. I was half in a sense had to be part of the conversation while I was trying to hint that Iām not going to be staying here, just C š
. She kept asking if a king bed was okay, or at least it felt like a weird amount of times. I was getting a bit bored of the small talk she was trying to make with us because we were both exhausted by the day. I was zoned out when I realized C was pushing one of the 2 water bottles she gave us to me. I heard C let out a snicker when he saw me get startled. We thanked her and started to head out the building.
C commented that he wondered if she thought I was his wife and I replied yeah we really missed an opportunity to do some kind of role play and he got a good kick out of that.
Both days after the event we didnāt get dinner like we usually do and I was kind of disappointed about but his wife had some extra food from her dinner and the next day he needed to pick up his car from his parentsā place. But at least on the second day he told me about his neighborhood that he grew up and and pointed some stuff out to me that I thought was cute.
We also went to lunch together both days. The first day we went with another coworker and wound up walking around the city for like 10 min to get to a place that they used to like and they still went in to try it and C and I went to a grocery store next door. We had some fun walking around the store figuring out what would might be good. We picked out our food and paid and thankfully they had some tables right outside the shop and we picked a table and chatted about the event and checking in with each other while we ate. We stayed at the table a while longer watching and commenting on some dogs and a few cars we saw pass by. We didnāt meet up with our other coworker since he let C know he was going to head back. We took a different way back and commented on some of the interesting stuff we were going by. He brought up a post I sent him with a car he was really curious about from the car show we went to earlier. The week before, he was telling me that he was having a hard time finding it on his own time even with using the photo I had taken of it.
But I managed to find it and sent him the link. He replied to my message but brought it up on our walk back. He said that he got real excited when I sent it to him and showed his wife and he was saying that she wasnāt getting it and we got a little kick out of it.
On the second day he was having a flare up of pain in his lower back. I offered for him to use the pain reliever ointment I have on me for an old injury I have. He was hesitant because he kept counting his lower back as his butt and I had to convince him that it is indeed not his ass that he pointed out that was hurting. It was just the backside of his hip (his lumbar area but I couldnāt think of the name at the time) and I wouldnāt have really wanted to offer it to him if it was his butt and even then itās not like he was going to use it in his ass crack (what I literally told him) and that made him bust out laughing and agreed that that wouldnāt really feel good.
I dug it out of my bag and he kept getting side tracked and I would remind him, he was being cheeky saying that he will. After a couple times of reminding him and seeing he was in pain still, I grabbed the ointment and stood in front of him and put it in his hand. He chucked and said fine and I told him that Iāll even turn around as he started to loosen his paints and I was turning away from him being cheeky back to him. He chuckled and said no it was fine and he finished putting the ointment on his lumbar and handed it back me and thanked me. After a little bit he said that it was helping and thanked me again and I told him of course and glad it was helping.
At lunch we went to a place he found online earlier that was a lot closer than where we went the day before. We ordered our food and he asked if I wanted to sit inside or outside. I said it was a nice day, especially with being inside for most of the day already, and there was a nice view outside. He agreed and we sat pretty close next to each other at a bar seating that they had right out front. We chatted and he said that he really appreciated me coming again especially with the day weāve been having and how frustrating itās been. I could tell it was all kind of getting to him and I patted his shoulder a bit and replied of course and that I was glad I came as well. He gave me a soft smile.
We eventually went back to work until it was time to go home.
