Siem Reap: The cutest couple in Cambodia
Tuesday, September 26th, 2006You’re a waiter, a Cambodian waiter, working on the tourist strip in Siem Reap. Pub Street. You work on Pub Street, and every day you see this girl, the hostess at another restaurant just down the block, on the other side of the street. Most days you pass her restaurant on your way to work, and she’s already there by then because her shift starts an hour before yours does. She smiles, always smiles — and you smile back. You see each other in other places, too, and always the same shy smile. Sometimes you look up from the table you are serving out in front of your restaurant, and you make eye contact with her across the distance. You smile and she smiles back, and then you continue distributing beers to tourists.
And always you say nothing to each other.
ismateo