Ebony and Ivory

November 2009

While Mario got lost in the clouds, I wasn't about to sit home feeling sorry about it (I have to maintain my socializing) so of course I accepted an invitation from Shadow to meet up with she and her two friends to watch Monday Night Football.  I mean 3 of my favorite things - beer, boys, and football!

These two guys didn't know they were meeting the yin to the yang of friends. We were having a great time with no pretenses.  Talking work, relationships, careers, and when we realized we hadn't paid attention to any of the game, we decided to switch venues.

While thought we had a good thing going, two of their other (girl) friends showed and they invited them to join us.  Sure, it was weird but I can go with the flow, Shadow on the other hand was less than pleased these girls crashed our night (since she was interested in Ivory). I was getting bored at their lack of contributing to the conversation but perhaps it was due to their ages.  I think Shadow burned them with her evil stares that they got the drift and split.

Now we were back to the starting foursome - Ebony, Ivory, and (us) salt and pepper. ha ha  If Ivory wasn't putting his arm around my back, he was steal glances from Shadow while she was flirting with Ebony.  Then while I talked to Ebony, he was asking if I were interested in Ivory as he and Shadow are kissing at the table. It was bizarre.  We finally parted ways with them though they wanted us to go to another bar and we had to leave while we were semi-coherent, and their advances didn't get any stronger.

It was a fun-loving, laughter-induced, beer-filled evening that I needed to take my mind of  "what's his name" and realize what I always know when guys do pull this shit - if you don't know what you want and need to chicken out by disappearing in order to save face, than you're just as big a coward as others that have crossed my path.  When you miss your connection, you can always fly stand-by or just wait for the next available flight.

Speaking of...the VERY next day I just had a (short-lived) former student ask me to watch the game with him on Sunday.  Totally caught off guard.  There you go Mario!