Meeting Lynn

Posted on June 17, 2003 in Book of Days

Note: This is part of a series based on exercises from A Writer’s Book of Days. It’s something of a rebellion against the Friday Five and similar tupperware content memes.

Today’s topic: It’s who you met at a party.

I wasn’t planning to go to Kanef’s housewarming. Parties bored me. Too much shouting over questionable music; too many questions about what you did for a living & what kind of business prospects your company offered; and way too much trading of business cards. I never really met people at parties.

But at the last minute, I changed my mind. I follow the thin golden thread of connectivity and met Lynn. We got to talking. I took her home because she had a bike and I had a bike rack. Stammered out my request for a date.

I prefer not to think about the what-ifs. There’s a big soot cloud that never developed in my life. Why worry about what didn’t happen when the outcome was so good?

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