This was Brices reply after I guilted myself out in an earlier entry and sent him a thank-you e-mail for an uncomfortable date. Brice, if you recall, has been very recently divorced and is one of the saddest people in the world right now.
How does a girl respond to an e-mail like this??
“You held up quite well.
I am sorry I missed you as well, but I do love voice mail for the ability to be brief.
Things are fine, although a client today said I should write down all the turns of the last few months, they will someday make interesting reading.
The girls are fine, beautiful, wonderful. I dropped them off Monday the 5th and don’t see them again till the night of 16th and that is another turn I will have to tell you of.
Today’s turn was the old family dog, he has been sick for 3 or so years, lung & skin cancer, deaf, amazing he is alive still. Still sweet, black Cocker Spaniel tale wiggles every time I go to get the girls and he is more my dog although a gift to my ex 11 1/2 years ago. The softest black very curly hair. The ex called this morning upset, had to put [dog] to sleep, wanted to know what to do about [6-year-old daughter], should she visit the dog, and could I talk to her since the ex was unable to as upset as she was. I was fine with that so I called [daughter] to talk to her, didn’t want her to go to the kennel. The ex called later and asked me to go take care of the paper work, pay the bill since she was a mess, again no problem. Except when I got there, I find out [dog] is not asleep; so I stayed, went back to the cages, petted him, walked him, sat with him for a bit and put him up on the table and stayed with him while they put him to sleep.
And I thought I was just going to pay the bill.
I would love to get together again, are you interested?
Brice
Gaahhh! How terrible!!
I got the e-mail late on Friday and didnt even read it. I was in such a hurry to get out of the office. So on Monday, he sent me another one:
“No need to respond to the sad dog story; just to the last question, and it can be a yes/no answer. I would love to get together again, are you interested?
Then I went back and read the earlier one. Damn. How could I not respond?
Heres how I replied:
“Hi Brice….I’m sorry I didn’t have a chance to reply to this note on Friday. I read it yesterday, and was so choked up. I’m terribly sorry about [dog]. I don’t know what to say.
I’m headed out of town on Thursday. It’s my SF trip. I will be back next Wednesday. Maybe we can get together later next week if you’re interested.
Again….I’m so sorry.”
I do not want to see him. I do NOT want to see him!! Why did I do that?
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