I went to starbucks this morning to get a bagel. I was out of bagels. At starbucks there was an attractive brunette woman with big brown eyes. She was wearing open toed black suede high heels.
I kind of noticed her.
As I was ordering my bagel and coffee I could see her checking me out. She leaned over to her friends and whispered. Her friends looked me over and whispered back.
I was feeling pretty proud. A beautiful woman, with really great taste in shoes, was paying attention to me.
I was nonchalant. I played it cool. I watched her get up with her friends and walk off towards the court house.
I hoped she was a new file clerk or judicial assistant. Then I would see her again! Then I could work some of my charm on her. When it comes to charm the term, "pants off" has been known to apply. At least in my better daydreams it has applied.
I strut back to my office, high on the idea that a beautiful woman had just checked me out.

Later this afternoon I go to ex parte to have the Judge sign a final judgment in a case. I'm feeling doubly good. A hot woman checked me out and now I'm finally closing a case I started back in December. It is a good day.
I'm waiting in the hall when suddenly the attractive woman walks by and gives me a long glance. I quickly think why she might be in that hallway. Maybe she's on the restraining order docket and she's an advocate for survivors of domestic violence?
I get up to read that days docket.

There's a former clients name on the docket. I won his case. I realized that the woman wasn't "checking me out". She was giving me nasty looks.
She was the opposing party in a case that I won back at the beginning of the year. I got her protective order dismissed. (I was pretty awesome in that trial, not that I'm bragging.)
She wasn't looking me up and down in the "He's tall, dark, and handsome" sort of way. She was looking me over and whispering to her friends in the "That's the douchebag that represented my ex husband and fucked up my life. What a dirtbag. Choke and die motherfucker" kind of way.

When I got back to the office I told the legal assistant what happened. She said "It's not okay to hit on your former client's victims."

That's good advice, but she had pretty eyes...