Nosey much? Overheard while publicly catching up on email

Sitting in a coffee shop catching up on far too many loose ends I've left dangling this week, I'm repeatedly distracted by the unlikely pair sitting a few yards away. He's a scruffy bearded guy, about my dad's age. Wearing camo sweats and a baseball cap, he looks surprisingly cozy in these surroundings with his laptop on the table in front of him. She's quite young and works here. (I discovered as I inadvertently eavesdropped overheard parts of their banter.) Returning to my work again and again, their chat sucked me in more than once. Then this really good part, spoken by the man:

"I can't get rid of her. She's been there for 4 days now. I mean...I love her to death, don't get me wrong. But she just shows up and I didn't invite her...

I'm trying to picture the "squatter" (as my own father referred to an out-of-town friend who once came to see me and stayed for weeks,) and can't quite imagine just what a person indefinitely visiting this man might look like. (Seeing as how the complete sum of my knowledge of the speaker was delivered in my presence over the course of perhaps 15 minutes, why would I be able to picture this woman???)

Oh! Now I've written the above parts... She just hugged him before he left, "Bye Daddy!" Why it surprised me he was her father, I can't quite say. It left me with an endearing feeling. Now, though, I can return to work, hopefully undistracted for a while...

That Adderall this morning? Might have been a good idea... 

Comments

[Don/Dad]

That's cute; things are often not what they seem to be. And a hug for one's Daddy is always in order!

Love,

Dad

[Melody]

;) I couldn't agree more. Love you too...