You don't know me but...

I was at the San Diego airport waiting for a friends flight to arrive. At the airport, folks that are arriving land and alight from the craft on the 2nd story of the terminal, as they approach baggage claim you see them walking through a glass covered corridor until they reach the down escalator which delivers the folks to the arms of all the relatives gathered there to greet them. Or into the arms of the greeter/driver assigned to meet them.

One such greeter had a sign with the name “SAKURA NAKAMORA” printed in large block letters. He prominently featured his sign when any unattended Asian woman made the decent from the glass corridor.

A cute Asian girl arrived at the baggage claim level, looked around for her friends and then stood to one side obviously waiting for her friends to show up. I see greeters eyes swivel towards her, he waggles his sign trying to catch her attention. She notices the sign and lets her eyes slide past him, then begins “obviously” looking for her no show companions - body language saying the kind of thing you do when you’re out by your self at a club – “my friends are supposed to be here”, “hmm, is that the time? Maybe they’re late, but I’m not here alone.”

Greeter looks back up at the folks coming through the corridor and down the escalator, and, I’m guessing that as he saw no Asians coming his way pushes him to begin taking small doll steps towards the only unattached Asian woman he can spot in the airport.

By this time I’m enthralled, Greeter hasn’t said a-n-y-t-h-i-n-g, but it’s obvious he thinks the girl is Ms. Nakamora, while it’s clear to me that she is going out of her way to non-verbally tell him she isn’t.

Greeter’s sidling steps finally brought him right up to the girl, and then he shakes his sign again, wiggling it from side to side, I’m not sure why he thought this would help, but, the girl turns to him, looks him in the eye & says “No.” Then she marches off to the other side of the escalator to wait for her friends.

I wonder if Ms. Nakamura ever arrived...