men in my life
i've chosen this title because i want to talk about four occurences that have nothing to do with each other but that all involve men that i see/hear from on a completely irregular basis and that i can't be bothered to put into separate posts.
1) i went to a friend's birthday celebration last week and among the guests were her best friend and his boyfriend, a lovely gay couple. i've had gay friends for years, but i've never been attracted to a gay guy before. it was the second time i was meeting the boyfriend, and he might be very gay, but he's also very lovely and apparently thinks i'm the life of the party or something, because he spent most of his time talking to me. i didn't have much to say, once we'd talked about the usual stuff, but that didn't seem to stop him. and so i just couldn't stop thinking that if he wasn't gay...
2) my ex from when i lived in NZ has an uncanny habit of sending me emails at times that seem incredibly random but usually relate to something important going on in my life. i first heard from him 7 years after our break-up, exactly a month after my mother's death. then about 3 years later, when i moved into my own appartment, then the day before my birthday this year, and 2 days ago, in the midst of my currently somewhat chaotic but exciting life, especially then. very weird. i'm sure there's a perfectly normal and logical explanation for this, but i can't find it, so i'm going with the guardian angel theory - that he's mine. he doesn't actually do anything to save me from anything (not that i need saving - then again...), but i like the idea.
3) my best friend's boyfriend is weird. when we drove down south 2 weeks ago, we listened to tapes in my car because my car's so old that it doesn't have a CD player, let alone an MP3 player. and he (like many others) found that very strange. even stranger when i told him i had a total of 7 other tape decks at home. all in working order. so when i saw my friend this afternoon, she had something for me, from him: a bag full of old tapes, most of which had obviously been recorded off the radio or something. obviously just trying to get rid of old junk. but what the hell, it's free music, i'll take it.
4) sometimes, when i walk home from the bus stop, i cross paths with an old man who must be in his 80s. we always bump into each other at the same place, on a very narrow pavement. i've been brought up to respect the elderly, so i always make to walk nearer the road, in case he falls or something. but he's obviously been brought up as a gentleman, because he invariably makes a big show of walking around me, stepping out onto the road so i can safely walk on the pavement. it's so sweet. silly, and sometimes quite dangerous, but sweet.
1) i went to a friend's birthday celebration last week and among the guests were her best friend and his boyfriend, a lovely gay couple. i've had gay friends for years, but i've never been attracted to a gay guy before. it was the second time i was meeting the boyfriend, and he might be very gay, but he's also very lovely and apparently thinks i'm the life of the party or something, because he spent most of his time talking to me. i didn't have much to say, once we'd talked about the usual stuff, but that didn't seem to stop him. and so i just couldn't stop thinking that if he wasn't gay...
2) my ex from when i lived in NZ has an uncanny habit of sending me emails at times that seem incredibly random but usually relate to something important going on in my life. i first heard from him 7 years after our break-up, exactly a month after my mother's death. then about 3 years later, when i moved into my own appartment, then the day before my birthday this year, and 2 days ago, in the midst of my currently somewhat chaotic but exciting life, especially then. very weird. i'm sure there's a perfectly normal and logical explanation for this, but i can't find it, so i'm going with the guardian angel theory - that he's mine. he doesn't actually do anything to save me from anything (not that i need saving - then again...), but i like the idea.
3) my best friend's boyfriend is weird. when we drove down south 2 weeks ago, we listened to tapes in my car because my car's so old that it doesn't have a CD player, let alone an MP3 player. and he (like many others) found that very strange. even stranger when i told him i had a total of 7 other tape decks at home. all in working order. so when i saw my friend this afternoon, she had something for me, from him: a bag full of old tapes, most of which had obviously been recorded off the radio or something. obviously just trying to get rid of old junk. but what the hell, it's free music, i'll take it.
4) sometimes, when i walk home from the bus stop, i cross paths with an old man who must be in his 80s. we always bump into each other at the same place, on a very narrow pavement. i've been brought up to respect the elderly, so i always make to walk nearer the road, in case he falls or something. but he's obviously been brought up as a gentleman, because he invariably makes a big show of walking around me, stepping out onto the road so i can safely walk on the pavement. it's so sweet. silly, and sometimes quite dangerous, but sweet.
posted by The Archaeologist @ 4:37 PM
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