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Out with the crowd

Tonight was our company's annual trip to a baseball game. A-girl was there with her grandparents. Another girl from the office, S-girl, couldn't leave me alone. Here I am trying to make points with A-girl and S-girl kept interrupting. I don't know if she has a crush on me or what but she just wouldn't let me go. I moved seats and she moved next to me again. Here I go again, attracting the wrong girl. I hate that.

I was perfectly fine, doing my own thing before the game and S-girl sends me a text message that I need to come pick her up at the office. She had previously mentioned that she might need a ride to the game. So I obliged... and she got drunk as hell at the game. Mabye that's why she was so clingy.

Amazingly enough there were a few people there who had never been to a baseball game so I tried to explain as best I could the rules and finer points of baseball as I know them. It is at this point I will tell you that I am in no way, shape, or form a baseball fan. I can stand the annual game we go to and maybe one or two more. I don't have 'a team' and I don't watch baseball on TV. So here I am explaining the rules to a young lady from China and one from Taiwan. Don't ask about the designated hitter -- I don't understand that one.

Earlier in the day I had received a call from G-lady who, with the rest of the team that I had previously traveled with, was sitting in an airplane before takeoff. They all expressed their regret that I wasn't traveling with them on this trip but I told them that I didn't need to go. It was always the plan that I would run with them and train the guy who was with them now. Still didn't change the fact that they missed me.

L-girl (my 'work wife') and I are getting together on Sunday, probably for lunch. She asks me "what do you want to do?" and I laugh slyly. She didn't say 'no'.
You have to understand that L-girl and I have never kissed, held hands or done anything considered even remotely controversial. But everytime she (or any other woman) comes out with a statement like that I just have to laugh.

It's late and I'm going to bed now.

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