"It was more of a 'pay no attention to the girl because she's not here and I don't know if she's coming and I was going to ask you out to dinner in more of an official date capacity later' thing." He forked over his Visa, glad that the person he'd "replaced" had a decent pay rate.
"And if you don't know that you're gorgeous, you could use an ego. Ego isn't a bad thing. Too much is. Sort of like bacteria." He winked at her as he signed the reciept.