Thinking It Through

We had a person at work suddenly resign and a temporary replacement started for that position this week.

In a rather unusual turn of events, I was somehow immediately like... comfortable with this new person.

They are (I think?) older than me, and male but gave me the impression and vibe that they are not straight.  And somehow that seems to have told my system that they are a safe person?  I feel comfortable with them (it probably helped that one of my favourite colleagues gave them a warm welcome so that set the tone of "good person" for me I guess?) But yeah, I'm sort of trying to figure out why I feel like this person and I could totally be work buddies when I have literally just met them.  

The awkward part I'm wondering about is that if I think they're gay, then they're not interested and therefore I can be friendly without it being taken the "wrong way"?  (I mean I'm not sure they're gay but....)

So yeah, that's been a bit of an unusual thing to think about....