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After watching Burn the Floor<\/a> at the Post Street Theater (tickets that Marina won yay!), we decided to grab a quick dinner at nearby Thai Stick<\/a>. After a sticky situation involving ordering (the server said several things on the menu were unavailable), we were set. I commented how nearly everything was unlike the food I had in Thailand.<\/p>\n

As i let my haughty arrogance of a well-traveled tourist played, I spotted a man and a woman sat at a table nearby. The woman had hair, brightly dyed red. Heavy makeup. The color matched one of the dancers…that we could barely see from our Mezzanine seats. I paused for a moment. Marina’s back was to them and I was nearly facing them.<\/p>\n

“Is it…” I started.<\/p>\n

“Well, she looks like a performer…” Marina responded.<\/p>\n

Then a few moments later, the man and woman waved happily through the window. Apparently several diners were joining them. I recognized the newcomer’s hair. It was Jiselle\u00e2\u20ac\u201dthe San Francisco native. From my viewpoint where I was sitting, she was the shorter dancer, the one that seemed to have hyper energy, the one that had dark black tight curled hair.<\/p>\n

The conversation at our table stopped as I stared. They…were…eating. Stuff. They…were…like…human.<\/p>\n

I wanted to slap myself. If I was a bigger tweeter, I would tweet this…perhaps in trying to get people’s opinions. But this was silly. They were just the dancers in a show I had just seen. They noticed that I was staring so I tried to look away. And never looked back.<\/p>\n

When Marina and I finished paying the check, I decided that I didn’t want to be a fangirl and we walked out of the restaurant without so much a word.<\/p>\n

The moment I walked outside…I felt guilty. I should have said something, but the moment passed. Chris admonished me later for being a wimp.<\/p>\n

Walking back to my apartment after the bus dropped me off at 11 pm, the street was dark . Walking past a busy bar, a middle-aged man from a group idly chatting on the sidewalk glanced a me. I kept looking forward, not stopping.<\/p>\n

“How is your evening?” he asked. “Do you…need any company?”<\/p>\n

Internally, I winced, knowing it was the semi-well-dressed-female-walking-alone-late-at-night thing. I murmured “No.”<\/p>\n

About a block away, I hesitantly turned around to see if anybody was following me. Nobody on the street. No sound, except the muffled laughter and chatter from the bar. As I turned the corner, I maneuvered through the crowd outside of a popular restaurant next to my apartment. Then opened the door, slamming the external gate closed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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