I’m reviewing the situation

Notes found in jeans pocket after successful first date:

• Say, “Hello.”  (SMILE!)


• Give her a hug.  DON’T BE AWKWARD


• Have a good conversation.


• Talk about her, NOT about yourself


• Tell her she is beautiful because SHE IS!!!


• Talk about other things.


• Things you have in common: what about Breakfast at Tiffany’s?


• Etc.


• Be a gentleman.  Open doors and all that.  


• Walk her to her door.


• Get a goodnight kiss.  mih.  DON’T BE AWKWARD.

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“You could have it all: my empire of dirt.  I will let you down.  I will make you hurt.”
- Johnny Cash, “Hurt”
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First: do no harm.  Then: do no good.

• You don’t remember, do you?


• No, I don’t.  I just can’t hear it anymore.


• It’s a shame.  A fucking shame.


• I know.  But she left me.  She didn’t even say goodbye.  How the fuck am I supposed to be?


• I don’t know.  I’ve never cared enough to know.  

I know this doesn’t sound like much of a compliment, but bear with me.  You make me inarticulate.  I never know what to say to you.  Tell me what it is and I’ll say it.  And yes, you do make my heart flutter.  But just a little bit.  You know, when I see you first, or you walk in the door and I happen to look up, or the other times.

• Do you think she’ll come back?


• No.  I wouldn’t.


• But what about the rest of us?


• We’ll survive.


• But I don’t want to just ‘survive.’  I want more.  I want it all.


• And you think you’re ready for that?


• I’m ready to try.


• Then I guess you should call her.

Maybe it’s time I let the Beast out of his cage.

it never rains but it pours