Hugs & Kisses

Honestly, I shouldn't even have this story. Saturday night after I went out, I took a cab back to my place around 2:30am - normally I get dropped off at the corner, and that night was no different.

As I'm walking towards my building, I pass a guy who's smoking a cigarette underneath a canopy to another building, and he starts talking to me:

Random guy: Hi, my name is Sal - I'm new in the neighborhood.

He proceeds to stick out his hand, like I'm supposed to shake it. So I graciously put my hand out, except he grabs it and kisses it! A little too much for me, so I start walking away. He apparantly doesn't get the hint:

Random guy: That's a lovely expression, where's it from?

Me: (purposely trying to not understand his question and walk away at the same time, so over my shoulder) I don't know what you're talking about.

The persistent weirdo: The expression on your face, where is it from?

Me: (just trying to get it over with) My parents are from India.

The extremely persistent weirdo now starts walking towards me, proceeds to catch me soo off guard that he snags a hug and kisses me on both cheeks. Now I'm beyond freaked out, and really just trying to think about how to get away and not let him see which building I walk into.

Dude who at this point just won't stop talking: Would you like to have a nightcap?

Is this guy SERIOUS? I'm walking down the street and you ask me to have a drink with you at 2:30 in the morning, I don't have a clue what was going on in his head. But for whatever reason, I just don't know how to be mean, it's the ingrained Southern Belle in me. Which, rather than making me a polite person, puts me in weird situations like this:

Me: No thanks, I'm done for the night.

Weirdo: Perhaps some other time then.

This is where I think I'm free, except he steps up to me again and gives me a weirdly tight hug and kisses me on both cheeks AGAIN! Do I never learn?! I didn't even see it coming, I am lacking in some serious skills. I laugh a little uncomfortably and moved away from him really fast this time, and didn't turn around.

The moral of this story; AVOID SAL THE SMOKER!