xxmusical Posted March 28, 2014 Posted March 28, 2014 Does everyone have "the one that got away"? Who was this person and why didn't it work out in the end? Are you still friends/in touch with this person? Do you still think about him/her, miss him/her? I think my TOTGA would be my high school crush lol. I felt like if we really got the chance to be together, we would have been inseparable. He was a sweet guy. The only problem was we were both too shy to confess and he had to move away to another country. Ended up he confessing to me after he left I still wonder how he is some times. I don't have those feelings anymore, but he would always have a spot in my heart. How about you guys?
2.50 a gallon Posted March 28, 2014 Posted March 28, 2014 I was a failure at college. I was directionless, I did not know what I wanted to do with my life, other than I loved history. At age 35 I marry, and we move across country for her career job. Six months later, I catch her cheating and end the marriage. Not a happy time, as I have zero friends and have to start all over again. I was befriended by my co-workers and every other weekend some of us would get together at a local club. About 3 months later, while driving by a local university, decide to check out the campus, actually, to check on that years class of coeds. I get caught in sudden rain storm and duck into what turns out to be the graduate library to stay dry. While waiting for the rain to clear pull down an old history book, and by accident find an answer to a question that had remained unanswered since the turn of the century. I knew in an instant what I wanted to do with my life, historical research. The problem was, my college days were a dozen years in the past. My writing skills are down to personal letters. I have to begin all over again. She, was a married co-worker. I worked the machines, she with a business degree in the office. She was one of the hottest ladies I had ever seen, I knew her name, and was sure she did not know mine. She had been married for coming up on 5 years, and the two of them had planned to celebrate the 5th Anniversary, at a Bed and Breakfast, and hopefully conceive their first child. That is until he stupidly decided to accept a friend invitation to watch a poker tournament. She had never been to one of our weekend get togethers, but showed up that night in this super hot skin tight, and short red number. While dancing with her she propositioned me. She was out to get laid on her 5th wedding anniversary and if not me, somebody was going to get lucky. Who could say no to that? The surprising thing is we hit it off. It turned out we had a great deal in common. She was a great help in getting me organized. She taught me about microfilms of old newspapers, photo collections, how to collect and organize the data, and even hints on how to write about what I was discovering. Then the I loves you began. I thought I felt the same, but how can you find love so quickly after losing it. It was a rebound relationship and we know they never work. So while I still could I dumped her after changing jobs. We did not see each other for over a year. That is when I found out that she still was hardly dating. That she was still in the process of getting over me. She no longer trusted men. And I could forget about us ever going out on a date. It would be another 14 years before I found some one I wanted to be with. I never did remarry, I never did have the kids I wanted and she wanted. And to this day, I sometimes wonder, if I had been smart enough to slow down instead of dumping her, how we might have turned out.
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