The coffee praiser The three of us were having a quick coffee in the rest room. As always, we were chatting and discussing about every day work and current affairs around the world. Nothing strange.

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The coffee praiser The three of us were having a quick coffee in the rest room. As always, we were chatting and discussing about every day work and current affairs around the world. Nothing strange. There were a couple of co-workers who we usually come across with at this time everyday. Two women: a youngster girl and a middle-aged woman. We just tossed them a cold hello everyday. We didn’t even know their names. But this day, everthing went differently. When Ton was approaching to the coffee maker, one of them -the oldest one- loomed over him and said: “Are you the one who was speaking?”. “Well, yes. It was me” Ton answered a little bit intrigued. “You have a beautiful voice, son. You could work in the radio”. She went like this, but pulling a stern face. Very serious. After this thrilling statement, the face of Ton was pure poetry. He could just lunch a timid “thanks”. Unfortunately it wasn’t heard by the woman. She had already turned the other side and walk again to the corner where the other girl was waiting. We didn’t exchange further words with them that morning. Time has gone by, and still we don't ever know either if she was trying to flirting with Ton or if she just wanted to be keen. In any case, it is a very creepy way of starting a conversation with a semi-unknown person in an office. Please, first, speak of the weather to open conversations.

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The coffee praiser

The three of us were having a quick coffee in the rest room (a restroom is a toilet in US English. I think you mean 'staff room').

As always, we were chatting about / discussing about our every day work and current affairs around the world. Nothing strange.
There were a couple of co-workers there too who we usually came across with at this time everyday. Two women: a younger girl and a middle-aged woman. We just tossed them a cold hello everyday. We didn’t even know their names.
But this day, everything went differently.

When Ton was approaching to the coffee machine, one of them, the oldest one, loomed over him and said:

“Are you the one who was speaking?”

“Well, yes. It was me” Ton answered a little bit intrigued.

“You have a beautiful voice, son. You could work in the radio (or 'on the radio')”. She went like this (I'm not sure what this means), but pulling a stern face. Very serious.

After this thrilling statement, Ton's face was pure poetry. He could just launch ("return / muster / manage" would sound better here) a timid “thanks”. Unfortunately it wasn’t heard by the woman. She had already turned the other way and was walking back to the corner where the other girl was waiting.

We didn’t exchange any further words with them that morning.

Time has gone by, and still we still don't ever know either if she was either trying to flirting with Ton or if she just wanted to be keen. In any case, it s a very creepy way of starting a conversation with a semi-unknown (I would say that a person is either 'unknown' or 'known'. You can't be semi-unknown. Perhaps you could say 'a practical stranger / a mere acquaintance) person in an office. Please, first, speak of about the weather to open conversations.

The coffee praiser

The three of us were having a quick coffee in the rest room. As always, we were chatting and discussing things about every day work and current affairs around the world. Nothing strange.
There were a couple of co-workers who we usually come across with at this time everyday. Two women: a youngster young girl and a middle-aged woman. We just tossed them a cold hello everyday. We didn’t even know their names.
But this day, everthing went differently.

When Ton was approaching to the coffee maker, one of them -the oldest one- loomed over him and said: “Are you the one who was speaking?”. “Well, yes. It was me” Ton answered a little bit intrigued.
“You have a beautiful voice, son. You could work in on the radio”. She went like this, but said pulling a stern face. Very seriously.

After this thrilling statement, the face of Ton was pure poetry. He could just lunch manage a timid “thanks”. Unfortunately it wasn’t heard by the woman. She had already turned the other side and walk again back to the corner where the other girl was waiting.
We didn’t exchange further words with them that morning.

Time has gone by, and still we don't ever know either if whether she was trying to flirting flirt with Ton or if she just wanted to be keen. friendly In any case, Anyway it is a very creepy way of starting a conversation with a semi-unknown an unknown co-worker person in an office. Please, first, speak of the weather to open conversations It's normal to speak of the weather when opening a conversation.

Talking to someone is creepy? I guess the "cold hello"sets a context that is hard for me to understand. Maybe she was saying just what she thought. Maybe she was hinting that your friend's voice was very loud. You could have asked her. Not all interactions have to be flirty or keen :)

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