the hottest geek ever

I know the rules are that you never dip your pen in the company ink.  And it's probably a bad idea to be the other woman.  So how bad of an idea is it to be the other woman when all three of you work for the same company?  Very, very bad...

Sexy-Geek was certainly aware that he was a geek.  I doubt he realized he was sexy. Piercing blue eyes, salt and paper hair pulled back into a pony tail, a well-kept goatee (and normally I don't do facial hair, but on him...mmmm... ), broad shoulders, deep voice, and a boyishness that was just yummy.  He was "older" - just a few years, but it seemed like so much at the time.  I was always stopping by Sexy-Geek's office - usually it was work-related, and occasionally it was because it was fun.  Sexy-Geek had a geek job, and he (among other things) was responsible for scanning people's email and hard drives and finding whatever raunchy policy-violating nasty stuff they would download.  I saw the most pornographic Flinstones cartoon I can ever imagine.  I will never look at a picture of Dino the same again.

Don't get me wrong here - it was rarely that kind of stuff.   Usually we just laughed about geeky things and I flirted like a teenager with a crush on her teacher. 

Then there was happy hour.  A lot of happy hours...  (I was in my mid-20's after all).  For the longest time, I wasn't even aware he had a girlfriend.  Surprising, because they had been together for years. Because she had kids, he was mostly with her on weekends, so on week nights he acted like a single man.  I remember thinking she wasn't particularly nice to him, that he was sort of insecurely enslaved to her, and he could do so much better... like me...

But then there was happy hour.  And he put Fat Bottom Girls on the jukebox, and meant it to seduce me.  He really did (mean it).  That's probably the night I went home with him.  He really did (seduce me).  And it didn't occur to me that if the girlfriend knew about me, or ever found out about me, I would not be writing this blog today.  She was scary.

The affair lasted not more than few weeks...  It involved one of my best moves ever, which Sexy-Geek still talks about.  Ultimately, though, we were much better at flirting with each other than anything else.  I called it off, and miraculously we remained friends and the girlfriend never found out.

I might just be telling this story to brag.  Or to laugh at myself that I let myself get seduced by Queen (ah, the irony). Or maybe to confess out loud that once in my life I was the other woman.

Or maybe I'm telling this story because I did this thing which should have been really awful, but managed to escape unscathed, and I'm still a decent person.  The best part of the story is that Sexy-Geek left the girlfriend not long after our fling, and found the woman of his dreams.  I take a little credit for this.