Love is Everywhere in New York, You Just Have to See it

Although I tend to date more regularly than my friends, I still feel like I never meet men to go out with.  Finding someone who you can actually carry on a more than decent conversation with is a full time job.  So you'd think that when I meet someone I can do that with, who also has the looks and the attractive shyness, I'd be all over the situation.  I missed the mark.

I went to a model casting call in Soho one night, after being recruited by a woman at the mall who said I had an "interesting look."  I wasn't sure what it was going to be like, but when i got there everything seemed to be legit.  I was measured, asked my breast cup size, and taken into a room with a bunch of other people with "interesting looks."  Becasue we were being seen by the order in which we arrived, we were asked to sit in specific places.  I was sat next to this really cute, really tall (6'2" is what he said) Latino gentleman in black slacks.  He immediately opened up conversation with me, and me being the person who ALWAYS talks to strangers and makes friends in any setting, I of course obliged.

We realized very quickly as the room began to fill up that we were probably going to be there for a while.  We talked about the low budget yet-to-be-released music videos that the company was showing us.  Soon after, it was the movie "Zoolander."  As minutes passed and conversation continued the thought came to my mind: To flirt or not to flirt?  I couldn't make up my mind whether or not to be my flirtatiously assertive self with this cutie.

His name was Jacob and I liked his shy temperament.  He seemed to be flirting with me, first asking me how old I was and telling me that I looked much younger.  He then pretended not to like the fact that he looks older then he is (which is younger than me), but I could tell he really liked it.  At one point he gave me the biggest red flag to flirt with him and I didn't pick up on it,

"Do you know of any really good poetry or spoken word restaurants?" he asked.