Stood up!
Argh. So last Tue. I met SS and his client M for drinks at the Happy Hamburger. Exhausted and stressed from a long day of presentations at work, followed by teaching, I was feeling just a touch saucy as I entered the restaurant. Over drinks and blackened tilapia (v. good!) I enjoyed getting to know M while making scathing remarks about SS, his behavior and Italians in general. To my utter amazement the more lip I gave him the more attentive and flirtatious he became: go figure! The evening ended with him asking me out to dinner and dancing on Saturday: 4 days in advance! Go Rules!
Unfortunately Sat. rolled around and I had not heard a peep since Tue. from SS. Despite that it is against The Rules (well, I think it is, they don't get that specific) I called and left a vm asking if we were still on for the evening as I assumed we were. Late afternoon he calls to inform me that we are indeed still on but that he is flying back from NY and might be a little later than planned but that he would call when he landed. Yea, that phone call never came!
Despite my fury at having been stood-up on a Saturday night, in the back of my mind I figured something legitimate had come up and, if not, that I was well shod of him anyway. Sure enough, after church Sun. morning, I had a groveling vm awaiting me. Apparently his plane had security clearance issues and he was left sitting on the tarmac for several hours before they were finally cleared for take-off. I suppose this makes sense as he was flying out of NY on 9/10 just a day before the anniversary of 9/11. Since he was flying a private plane, shared by a few others, they had to first fly to Toronto before dropping him off here by which point he did not want to make matter worse by waking me with a phone call in the wee hours of the morning.
To his credit he apologized profusely, said repeatedly that he did not mean any disrespect, that he had really wanted to see me and felt terrible that he couldn't call. He sounded sincere and I chose to forgive but maybe I am just being naive? Feel free to weigh in on this one folks. Of course my gf's bf's have done much worse and they are still together so....???
I will say that SS amended for his mistakes most nicely. He took me shopping, to a movie and dinner throughout which I gave him a hard time about the previous night's debacle and he was a good sport though it all.
Unfortunately Sat. rolled around and I had not heard a peep since Tue. from SS. Despite that it is against The Rules (well, I think it is, they don't get that specific) I called and left a vm asking if we were still on for the evening as I assumed we were. Late afternoon he calls to inform me that we are indeed still on but that he is flying back from NY and might be a little later than planned but that he would call when he landed. Yea, that phone call never came!
Despite my fury at having been stood-up on a Saturday night, in the back of my mind I figured something legitimate had come up and, if not, that I was well shod of him anyway. Sure enough, after church Sun. morning, I had a groveling vm awaiting me. Apparently his plane had security clearance issues and he was left sitting on the tarmac for several hours before they were finally cleared for take-off. I suppose this makes sense as he was flying out of NY on 9/10 just a day before the anniversary of 9/11. Since he was flying a private plane, shared by a few others, they had to first fly to Toronto before dropping him off here by which point he did not want to make matter worse by waking me with a phone call in the wee hours of the morning.
To his credit he apologized profusely, said repeatedly that he did not mean any disrespect, that he had really wanted to see me and felt terrible that he couldn't call. He sounded sincere and I chose to forgive but maybe I am just being naive? Feel free to weigh in on this one folks. Of course my gf's bf's have done much worse and they are still together so....???
I will say that SS amended for his mistakes most nicely. He took me shopping, to a movie and dinner throughout which I gave him a hard time about the previous night's debacle and he was a good sport though it all.
posted by Princess Rae at 11:01 AM
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