There I stood, on the sidewalk in Chinatown, stopped to adjust my coat. The sun was shinning and I wasn’t feeling my usual persona of ‘missionary lady’. A man of a few years younger than I, stops about 5 feet in front of me. and gives me a verbal compliment on what i was wearing. I look at him surprised. He repeats it. In my surprised appreciation, I say ‘thank you’. He comes up to my side and asks ‘May I take you to dinner this evening’. I look at him not sure I heard him correctly, and say, ‘I’m sorry? What did you say?’. And he repeats it. I say, ‘Sorry, I have a previous commitment, but thank you.”. ‘Well’, he says, ‘if anything changes, keep me in mind’. Now you know none of this was ‘for real’ but I have to say, it was a lovely, unexpected moment. A while later, another man did something equally as charming. Maybe the second was a result of the first. Or maybe both were due to the crazy socks I had on.