Mr. Maintenance

So, remember the maintenance guy I mentioned in my post a few days ago?

Ok.....

I'm at work yesterday. An anxious ball of nerves after my little incident the day before (if you're someone who is on the board, see my DAY FROM HELL post). I get a phone call at 5:30: "can you come to the maintenance office? I need to talk to you." Um, ok. I had no idea what he wanted to talk about.

Turns out, the conversation he wanted to have was work related. Long story short he got screwed out of the Maintenance Manager position he had busted his hump to work towards. In talking to him I told him I thought him not getting it had nothing to do with our hotel manager it likely came from above him for whatever reason. He wasn't sure if he was going to stay and work under the guy that now has the job he wanted, or if he was going to leave.

I told him it sucked he didn't get the job (which is true, most of us at work were pulling for him). He thanked me for listening to him.

Later that night he called me at work after he was off. I was busy so my colleague told him I'd call him back. So I did. He said he just wanted to call me to tell me he figured out what he's going to do in relation to the job. He's going to stick it out for awhile. I told him he has enough people in the hotel that wanted him to stay and don't want to see him go, though would likely understand if he did.

As the conversation went on he said several times how well he and I get along and he feels like he can talk to me. He also said when he was talking to me in the office he almost broke down in tears. I told him I had noticed he was upset, and joked that I didn't do well with guys that cry. He said he's a retired soldier, they don't cry. I told him not to worry about it that everyone has a soft side, even I do.

It was this point that he got upset at me for not calling him on Thursday when my "incident" was taking place. I tried to tell him that as it was happening I totally forget he, and most everyone else, were in the building. The only two people I knew were there were the hotel manager and our conceirge guy. Hell, I didn't even think to call 911 until someone reminded me that would likely be a good idea. He was not happy with me that I didn't call him. He did come out when he heard what was going on, but stayed out front with all the guys that had come running to my rescue when they heard what was happening. (apparently he had been by the pool and saw the kitchen guys and others go running, so he followed suit to see what was going on). Literally, I went blank and forgot that anyone else was in the building.

Aaanyway,.....

So, let's do some math here:

he and I do the flirty thing at work. its fun. its what we do. We talk like "hi, how are ya" kinda thing at work but not much beyond that.

then out of nowhere he called me at home on Wednesday morning
then called again Wednesday evening
then on Friday he called me to his office so he could talk to me
then on Friday evening he called me again to talk

Am I the only one who is noticing a pattern here, or am I imagining things?