Saturday, October 24, 2009

The case of the disappearing tighty-whities ...

Posted by Ashley [aka Keens] at 3:11 PM

What's the surest sign that you've lived in a town for too long?  You date guys you've had crushes on in high school in your 20s.  "St. Pete" was on my rowing team in high school and was labeled as the "bad boy".  If my memory serves, he got kicked off of the team twice for drinking or some other bad boy-esque thing.  He was a few years older than me and ran into me at a team reunion.  


He was instantly drawn to me - as if he didn't see the other people he hadn't greeted yet.  We talked for a while and I began to notice a few whispers and laughs our way.  I thought nothing of it until one of our mutual friends told me to be careful of him.  He had baggage and was known to be a player.  I shrugged it off, I was seeing someone else after all and wasn't looking for something serious.
 
We went back to my place that night and he shocked me by telling me that he's always had a crush on me and that he was too scared to say anything as I was always "surrounded by guys" - his words, not mine.  I thought back to the late 90s and realized that certain things he said and did would prove him to be correct.  I've never been good at telling when a man is interested, I tend to be naive at times. He left to go back to the west coast (two hours west of me) and we promised to keep in touch.  


When it comes to dating, I have a strict "three strikes and you're out" kind of deal.  Well, after promising to come to see me one weekend and didn't (strike one) and flaked out of another weekend (strike two), he apparently felt really bad and sent me something to "smooth things over".


He sent me a video.  A video of him in tighty-whities, dancing around his room and proclaiming that he liked me and that he feels bad about everything he's done.  When I met him, I guess he had been working out super hard so he was really proud of his body.  I've never had something like that happen to me so obviously I saved the video.  He eventually planned a trip to see me and I kind of forgave him for flaking out two times (forgive, but don't forget!).  


Through the weeks of talking, I found out that he had been still living with his baby momma (although they were "broken up") but absolutely hated her.  He made arrangements to come see me one weekend and stay in a really upscale hotel.  During the weekend, he thought it would be funny to get into his old uni-suit (rowing uniform).  I'll admit it, it was pretty funny to see him squeeze into his old high school clothes.  He insisted that he keep the uni-suit at my place so he would have to come back and see me again.  After the weekend, we continued to talk and everything seemed fine.


Until one night.


He sent me a blackberry message saying "I really need to talk to you.." and I responded "okay, what's up?".  If you're not familiar with bbm, once you send a message you can see when the recipient read the message.  He read it within minutes and never responded.  Never actually means until this day.  He just disappeared.  My thoughts are that he decided to get back with his baby momma and just didn't have the spine to tell me.


I contemplated putting his video on youtube and forwarding it to all of our mutual friends.  In the end, I didn't feel right about showing the video to the entire world via youtube.  However, you better believe I showed my coworkers.  


Moral of the story: Don't make videos of yourself almost nekkid and give them to someone in which you're not really interested.  Lucky for him I'm not a super bitch.

 

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