StorMemories
Tonight's storm(s) have brought back odd memories I thought long since dissolved into the aether (or lost in my multiple head-damage incidents), as I've (thus far) tried to sleep :
One was a memory from the early-to-mid-'90s, of being out on a date, heading to take her home... only to find the mile(s) long road leading to her parents had been washed out.
We pulled into the church parking lot at the end of the road-that-still-remained and stayed there for several hours of the storm... having a quite good night indeed...
until suddenly lights flashed on the quite steamed windows of my car - her father. Not the least bit impressed, I might add (his truck made it through the waters).
Looking back, I probably wouldn't have been as pissed as I was (nor probably cared) if I'd known that in the month(s) prior and month(s) after that night she'd end up with not only one of my roommates but one of my employees (I was a manager at the time) AND one of her neighbors...
all while we were dating on-and-off, I might add (for some reason she only cheated during the time(s) we were dating - humerously(?) her friends blamed me for her cheating, though I'm still not certain how that works).
Another was a memory of a sweet little Czech who rented part of the same house I lived in when I first moved to the Cities but wouldn't date me since she had a boyfriend back in the Czech Republic.
Humerously, however, whenever there was a storm/thunder/lightning, despite having 4 fellow Czechs living with her, she'd come and get me to comfort her until the storm was done...
trust me, I didn't mind one bit. But still a fun memory.
Yet another was just me driving through a storm to pick up a girlfriend (again, in the '90s) at a party where she was with friends...
it seems she/they didn't think I'd make it due to the severity of the storm and, so, I literally caught her with a couple of guys... that I unfortunately knew.
Yeh, my ex-g/fs have a history of cheating... only made sadder, I suppose, in the fact that I've only had 4 ex-g/fs in the past 18yrs and only one (my marriage) lasted longer than 40days each time I dated them.
Now that this last storm seems to have passed, gonna try sleeping again - sans these memories would be nice.
-thom / Wolfox
LJ version of post includes cinematiq
Tonight's storm(s) have brought back odd memories I thought long since dissolved into the aether (or lost in my multiple head-damage incidents), as I've (thus far) tried to sleep :
One was a memory from the early-to-mid-'90s, of being out on a date, heading to take her home... only to find the mile(s) long road leading to her parents had been washed out.
We pulled into the church parking lot at the end of the road-that-still-remained and stayed there for several hours of the storm... having a quite good night indeed...
until suddenly lights flashed on the quite steamed windows of my car - her father. Not the least bit impressed, I might add (his truck made it through the waters).
Looking back, I probably wouldn't have been as pissed as I was (nor probably cared) if I'd known that in the month(s) prior and month(s) after that night she'd end up with not only one of my roommates but one of my employees (I was a manager at the time) AND one of her neighbors...
all while we were dating on-and-off, I might add (for some reason she only cheated during the time(s) we were dating - humerously(?) her friends blamed me for her cheating, though I'm still not certain how that works).
Another was a memory of a sweet little Czech who rented part of the same house I lived in when I first moved to the Cities but wouldn't date me since she had a boyfriend back in the Czech Republic.
Humerously, however, whenever there was a storm/thunder/lightning, despite having 4 fellow Czechs living with her, she'd come and get me to comfort her until the storm was done...
trust me, I didn't mind one bit. But still a fun memory.
Yet another was just me driving through a storm to pick up a girlfriend (again, in the '90s) at a party where she was with friends...
it seems she/they didn't think I'd make it due to the severity of the storm and, so, I literally caught her with a couple of guys... that I unfortunately knew.
Yeh, my ex-g/fs have a history of cheating... only made sadder, I suppose, in the fact that I've only had 4 ex-g/fs in the past 18yrs and only one (my marriage) lasted longer than 40days each time I dated them.
Now that this last storm seems to have passed, gonna try sleeping again - sans these memories would be nice.
-thom / Wolfox
LJ version of post includes cinematiq