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You Know And I Know

It seems I haven’t written anything in a while so I’ll try and catch you up. There isn’t a whole lot going on right now, maybe that’s why I haven’t written.

It’s a Thursday and I took the day off to hang out with Superman after his father passed away. At the funeral reception I’m texting this woman from work – I’ll call her Leslie. I ask her if I’m missing anything at the office and she tells me it’s a slow day. We text back and forth. Superman asks who I’m texting so I tell him.

Friday night, Superman and I go to a high school football game. He lives very near the football field and his oldest son is currently enrolled at this high school… so we go and watch the game and it’s a really good time. Superman asks me who I’m texting throughout the whole game. Well, I’m texting Leslie again.

Sunday comes and I’m with Superman again, this time watching pro football at his house. You guessed it: I’m texting Leslie again. So Superman says “You should ask Leslie out”. So I text her just that “My friend Superman says I should ask you out”. She didn’t say no, which was okay, but it was very awkward for me the next day. She said she didn’t think it was weird but seemed to avoid me the whole day.

We continued to text. I guess I’m a little ‘old school’ because I’m not used to texting someone who is in the same room with me – unless it’s just for a laugh. Her desk is just down the hall from mine so I just wonder why we don’t talk more when we’re both in the office. I can’t explain that one.

I don’t have an answer as to what will happen with this young lady. She’s 15 years my junior, she’s one of the most interesting people I know, great amount of character, a lot of what I’m looking for (not to mention being very cute) but I’m just not sure she’s that IN to me.

I say that but she will text me out of the blue to tell me something. If she wasn’t that interested in me, why would she do that? Recently she saw a dog get accidently hit and killed by a car and, of all the friends she has, chose to tell me about it. She wanted a modicum of comfort in her life and chose me as the one to give it.

Maybe I’m making too much out of this. Probably.

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