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Sun | October 16, 2005
Relationship, 10-15-05, WWP, mild, 71 degees
I wasn't surprised when I opened the door to see my best friend, Darin from Atlanta, come in to visit. He called an hour ago to say he was in town to meet a girl he just met online to which he felt suitable as a propective spouse. His long drawn look of despair, furrowed brow covered by his beach-blond hair bolted in and shook, no, gripped my hand.
"Thanks for taking me in, pardner!"
As if his trip wasn't in vain, he brought me back the suitcase he borrowed from the last visit. Thankfully, it was filled with my favorite southern concoction, banana-flavored moonpies. No one could dispute his wily charm and mellifluous voice ever garner any young lass. Yet his style of dating was like his bass fishing - catch and release.
"Listen, I'm not certain how long I'm staying but if you do me a huge favor...I can stay at most a week. I'll pay for any expenses while I'm here..."
He reach over to his back pocket and instantly I held up my hand, "No need now. Tell me what happened."
"Well, I met this girl, Krista, or should I say, IM'd her on one of those chat rooms for about a month now and we sorta hit it off. She's into bird-watching in central park, rollerblading and yoga. I'm into hunting birds, riding ATV's and body-building. You'd think we had nothing in common."
"Ok," I shrugged, "and?"
"And, so she says the same thing, but we both had a sense of humor about it. She'd sent me a pix of her." He pulls out his smartphone, tapping furtively. He tended to keep his past conquest photos, usually, headshots associated with their phone numbers. Darin scrolls down a bevy of past beauties on the tiny screen - Raquel...Tricia... Nadia...Yvonne and lastly a face I did't recognize. "There's Krista! What d'ya think?"
Pursing my lips, I nodded. "But, I notice she had no phone listed here. How come?"
"Dunno, guess she's playing hard to get. But get this, for a week she didn't contact me, email me, nothing. All of a sudden, I got this last message that she wanting to meet me here in the city. Out of the blue! Ya could've strike me with lightning! Why she only told me she just broke up with her husband and going through a trial separation."
"Geez, didn't you have a clue?" "Nah, not a lick." Darin continued. "She's been married for six years, no kids, and lives in a nice coop in tribeca. Her husband is a captain for a major airline so she's got some free time this week. I got time off work and hopped on a Delta flight straight over here."
"Look, my advise is to stay away from her. She's definitely on the rebound and surely makes it not only worse for her but yourself."
"I don't give a damn! She's the one! I know it when it sounds and feels right." He looked serious. Even his ears turn beet red.
"Ok, settle down, Rhett. You know your talking to the wrong person, remember - I've been down the aisle and through divorce court three times. I don't have a hot batting average."
Posted by Heru at October 16, 2005 10:57 PM
Comments
This is so funny, and it's even better when you read it.
I love these lines:
"She's into bird-watching ... I'm into hunting birds."
and
"I don't give a damn! She's the one!"
Posted by: Lily at October 25, 2005 08:58 AM
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