work, bump into him on the way to the gym. Oh my gosh, there were so many options but the only problem was:
I do not have any friends – to go on a blind date, only one friend!
I never go out for a drink – only when Christine has had a hard day at work, even then it normally ends up just having bottles at hers or mine, so we do not have to drive!
I am normally running to work – there is no time to bump into anyone!
I do not go to the gym
I have to try the Internet. I am running out of years, and realistically I have no options, as much as I am sitting thinking about them all. I can see Mom’s face now looking in horror – did you get this man through Facelook?
OK, I am going to look for the piece of paper Pamela wrote the website on and if I cannot find it then I will simply ask her. I do not want to ask her face-to-face. Actually I do not want to ask her.
Kimberly are you listening – my boss is calling me
Can you come to my office, please?
Sure, I reply
I go into his office with my notepad and pen, ready to take notes. Then, he asks me the oddest question in the world. Do you think I am attractive?
Not sure, how to respond to this one- I reply
I know there is one of two ways, if I say no, he will feel rejected. If I say yes, it will be a lie.
I reply, sure some ladies out there would find you attractive.
He asks - So, do you think I am attractive?
That is the wrong question next to:
How old do you think I am?
Do you think I am fat?
Do you think I am short?
Why do people insist in asking such questions – and always to me!
The phone rings, I am so relieved. I wanted the floor to take me up and suck me before, but now I am thinking and looking at him and realising for the first time in 8 years. I have never looked at this man. My Mom asked me if Derek was single, and the reply is yes, but I have never thought of him as anything else but my boss and I keep it that way.
I sit there while he is on the phone, drifting about his situation. H e should be married for 10 years now, the office gossip, Sandra has told me this story a thousand times, she seems to think it is funny, because her life is so dull.
He was due to get married on the Saturday. He met his wife when he was the Financial Director, and he met her in a coffee shop downtown. Before, you knew it they were meeting on a regular basis. He was quite shy and did not know how to speak to her. But, he said a few years ago, he used to shave his head and he was a lot smaller. I find that hard to believe. Then, when he finally proposed, he was sitting at the registry office waiting for her.
He waited and waited. Everyone said she was not coming. He said they were in love, why would she not come; she must be stuck in traffic or something.
For 4 hours!
There is no gridlock that bad!
So, after calling her and only her. Because, it never dawned on him until that day when he looked at her side of the family that there was no one there and that he had never been introduced to any of her family members.
Not through lack of trying. Every time he asked, she would make them go to a restaurant and wait hours for her parents to show up, she thought it would be better if they met on neutral ground. When I parents never turned up she would claim that her Dad was comfortable meeting him yet.
Even after he proposed a year and a half later after dating and she moved into his apartment, he still did not think there was something wrong. When he tells you the story, you laugh because you know it is not heading to somewhere good.
So, then he returns to his apartment after he has been rejected. Returns to an empty shell. She took everything, even his underwear. And let’s not talk about his bank accounts, she emptied those to. He could not live anywhere, have any clothes and more importantly he had no money.
The worst part is when he went to the police?
They laughed him out
I do not have any friends – to go on a blind date, only one friend!
I never go out for a drink – only when Christine has had a hard day at work, even then it normally ends up just having bottles at hers or mine, so we do not have to drive!
I am normally running to work – there is no time to bump into anyone!
I do not go to the gym
I have to try the Internet. I am running out of years, and realistically I have no options, as much as I am sitting thinking about them all. I can see Mom’s face now looking in horror – did you get this man through Facelook?
OK, I am going to look for the piece of paper Pamela wrote the website on and if I cannot find it then I will simply ask her. I do not want to ask her face-to-face. Actually I do not want to ask her.
Kimberly are you listening – my boss is calling me
Can you come to my office, please?
Sure, I reply
I go into his office with my notepad and pen, ready to take notes. Then, he asks me the oddest question in the world. Do you think I am attractive?
Not sure, how to respond to this one- I reply
I know there is one of two ways, if I say no, he will feel rejected. If I say yes, it will be a lie.
I reply, sure some ladies out there would find you attractive.
He asks - So, do you think I am attractive?
That is the wrong question next to:
How old do you think I am?
Do you think I am fat?
Do you think I am short?
Why do people insist in asking such questions – and always to me!
The phone rings, I am so relieved. I wanted the floor to take me up and suck me before, but now I am thinking and looking at him and realising for the first time in 8 years. I have never looked at this man. My Mom asked me if Derek was single, and the reply is yes, but I have never thought of him as anything else but my boss and I keep it that way.
I sit there while he is on the phone, drifting about his situation. H e should be married for 10 years now, the office gossip, Sandra has told me this story a thousand times, she seems to think it is funny, because her life is so dull.
He was due to get married on the Saturday. He met his wife when he was the Financial Director, and he met her in a coffee shop downtown. Before, you knew it they were meeting on a regular basis. He was quite shy and did not know how to speak to her. But, he said a few years ago, he used to shave his head and he was a lot smaller. I find that hard to believe. Then, when he finally proposed, he was sitting at the registry office waiting for her.
He waited and waited. Everyone said she was not coming. He said they were in love, why would she not come; she must be stuck in traffic or something.
For 4 hours!
There is no gridlock that bad!
So, after calling her and only her. Because, it never dawned on him until that day when he looked at her side of the family that there was no one there and that he had never been introduced to any of her family members.
Not through lack of trying. Every time he asked, she would make them go to a restaurant and wait hours for her parents to show up, she thought it would be better if they met on neutral ground. When I parents never turned up she would claim that her Dad was comfortable meeting him yet.
Even after he proposed a year and a half later after dating and she moved into his apartment, he still did not think there was something wrong. When he tells you the story, you laugh because you know it is not heading to somewhere good.
So, then he returns to his apartment after he has been rejected. Returns to an empty shell. She took everything, even his underwear. And let’s not talk about his bank accounts, she emptied those to. He could not live anywhere, have any clothes and more importantly he had no money.
The worst part is when he went to the police?
They laughed him out
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