9:19pm
Today was exhausting. I have an entry in a drafts folder that I started last night but I’m not really sure where else I want to go with it. My intention was to finish it at work today but then work got crazy busy. I wasn’t there nearly long enough to get everything done. I really should spend more time there. There’s certainly enough work to keep us busy.
Oh, and I probably shouldn’t spend over an hour talking to the Sheriff while I have work to do! ha. =D
I honestly did not realize we’d been on the phone that long until I went to hang up and saw that it said like 52+ minutes. We’d already spent several minutes on the phone before that during the first call so yeah it was over an hour in total. Crazy!
It was weird how it happened too. Mom had a client and I’d gone up front for something or other and since I was there I sat down at the computer and checked my gmail telling myself it was better I checked it there instead of the back computer I was working on. If I checked up front and walked away I wouldn’t be tempted to leave it open or anything since I had work to do.
So I logged in, noticed there were no new emails, scolded him silently for not having responded, logged out and had just finished closing out of windows when the phone rang. I turned around in my chair and looked at the caller ID to see “Sheriff” listed across the screen. gasp All kinds of thoughts flashed through my head. I wanted to figure out how to go to the back desk to talk since there was a client but there wasn’t enough time to move that far. I had to answer so I grabbed the phone and ran through my spiel while trying not to panic. He responded back in Spanish and I only caught the last part where he asked how I was. My phone lines at work have been super static-y and that combined with the way his voice sometimes sounded far away and how I always have a hard time picking up on his Spanish - I missed a few sentences over the course of the phone call. Whoops. I wonder what he said though? I don’t know if he just said hi and my name, or something else entirely. I hate missing things! =|
I’m still pretty confused by the guy. He clearly remembers the things he says to me and the fact that he doesn’t follow through. I don’t want to have my recent experiences make this into something it isn’t but I just don’t understand why people say things and don’t follow through. I will never understand that! Say what you mean and mean what you say. It’s not that damn hard!
Anyway, unprovoked he mentioned how he’d said he was going to teach me how to shoot and when I made a joke about it he asked if I’d forgotten that he said that. I said that I didn’t forget I just didn’t hear anything more about it. Then shortly after that he brought up that he owed me drinks. Except he did that Spanish transition thing that I keep missing so it took me a second to catch up. Maybe that’s when I said that I never heard anything back about it. I don’t know. I did joke that that was like 2 years ago and he said he hasn’t been coming around that long. I corrected myself to a year and a half and we went back and forth on that for a bit. He insisted it wasn’t that long. He’d only been here in April and I said he’d mentioned it last year and he said he’d mentioned it this year and that’s what we’d go off of. Or something.
Apparently he hasn’t been back in town since April. I joked that I didn’t believe him but he insisted. I guess he’s been really busy, something about working the lake and it being their busy season, and then later something about a bunch of court appearances. I asked if he’d gotten into some trouble. haha. You all know I’m cool like that! He said he should stop arresting people and then he wouldn’t have to go.
The thing is, and this is probably totally coming from being bitter and cynical, but I don’t know what to believe. Sometimes I wonder if he says things to cover something up. I hate that I feel that way, but I can’t help it. I’m just not sure people are capable of being completely honest. I really don’t care what you’re doing, or what’s going on, I’m just joking and messing around with you. I do expect the truth though. Sometimes I wonder if the way I joke makes people feel the need to lie. Like they think I’m going to get upset? I don’t know. I’d like to think that he gets my sense of humor but sometimes I wonder.
There was definitely some flirting going on. Like the teasing kind of flirting. And he’s so easy to mess around with. He did say something about how I was giving him a hard time and I said I was sorry and that I’d try to be nice. He laughed like he didn’t believe it was possible. hah. And then he said that it was okay because he needed someone to give him a hard time back, or something like that. That seemed like a good thing.
Also, we talked a lot about food. Like basically the entire hour. He said he thought it would be easier to call than to reply to my email. [It’s funny because I had had that thought several times - that he would call to talk about it instead] Oh and later I asked how he knew I would be there and he said he just decided to call since it was a work day and figured I’d be around the office. I mentioned that this was the only day I was scheduled to be in and it was such a weird coincidence. If he’d called any other day I wouldn’t have answered and he would have gotten the voicemail. He just happened to call the one day out of the week that I was actually in the office and he doesn’t even know my schedule. Weird!
But yeah, lots of food talk and it turns out that we like a ton of the same stuff. Like when he said I had to go to this particular restaurant because he’d had an amazing country fried steak there I interrupted him and said that this is how I knew we were going to get along because that’s one of my favorites too. He also eats brisket! Which was the first thing he made on his new smoker. By the end of the conversation I’d used my wit and charm to convince him that he needed to cook for me and he was saying he’d bring his smoker and make brisket/tri-tip and homemade tortillas if I gave him the recipe. !!!! He’s the one that kept saying he was a great cook and all his friends tell him so and blah blah blah. It’s only fair that he proves it, right?!?! =]
Shortly after this he said that this was all fine and he would come out and cook for us and everything but, “what do I get out of this?” And of course I had this moment like “please don’t turn out to be one of these jerks that expects some kind of payback for something like this.” I’m afraid that that’s going to be a worry I will continue to have for a long time to come now that I’m jaded. So I just said, “Um…my company.” Simple and matter of fact. He did this serious pause and then goes, “Ok......you got me there.” ha ha! I win again.
He says he’ll come back into town next month. At least he’s going to try to do that unless some work thing comes up. I won’t hold my breath to hear anything back from him. I did end up getting 12 emails from him today while we were on the phone. haha. He was mentioning locations I could go to up in his area and then would look them up for me and send me the link which was really nice. He said he was a good guy because he was giving me everything I needed and I joked that technically I was keeping him entertained because he couldn’t move and had nothing better to do. He’d just had surgery this morning. According to him it was something very minor. Some kind of trial thing for his back that he hurt a long time ago. He’s laid up in bed for the next few days though. Unable to move much because he might pull the wires out of his back.
He said he was staying at a friend’s house because he didn’t want to drive the hour home and then the hour back tomorrow for a check-up. Initially it sounded like a couple he was staying with but then he mentioned they were a cop and these other things slipped and he said, “I could ask her....” then super hesitated enough to where I totally picked up on it and started talking again in terms of “they” and “my friend”. It really seemed like he was trying to avoid the fact that he was staying with a female. Not sure what’s going on there. He should learn that I’m very observant but I’ll let him figure that out on his own.
sidenote: I accidentally mentioned this interaction to mom and later tonight she said that she was a little disappointed in him because he was probably sleeping with her. [Ok. My poor mother is more naive than I am. And she is getting way too desperate for me…] I said that he was probably sleeping with her and a bunch of other women. She acted shocked and I said it was 2017 basically every man is sleeping with a woman, or multiple women, and it’s nothing new. He certainly doesn’t owe me anything and it’s none of my business.
There’s a lot more I want to say about this. It’s kind of one of those things that comes back to you in spurts. Like certain things remind you of stuff that was discussed and I’ll try to make a list somewhere so I can get it all down. I like to remember these things and look back on them in the future. :)
For now though I have to get ready for bed because I have to get up early tomorrow. I’m sure this will all get updated at some point. Always when I least expect it right?
rose.
11:07pm
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