Two - Two - Two in one!
I doubt I'll be posting here much - but I had occurance that I think only a few people remaining here might understand. LOL.
remember if you will (http://ectv.livejournal.com/19311.html) my first/Ex Matt. Moved to texas, we broke up, had a bootycall thing until I got tired of that shit and moved the hell on. Sadly it wasn't to entirely greener pastures. LOL.
Fast forward to like er, 06? about the time doug and I were seperating. For some odd reason I felt the need to google. I actually had to sit and ponder for about an hour because I actually forgot his LAST NAME! *facepalm*
It had been years since I thought of him, actually. I googled, saw he had moved to CA and I believe he'd just moved to Portland oregon. This was right before (I think?) I traveled to PDX for the very first time.
I remember saying, thank god I knew because it would be a hella big shock.
Well, I've been going back and forth to PDX with increasing frequency (who has AA elite status? me thats who!) lately, and spending long periods of time - usually 10 days or so. This is the tail end of my 3 week trip, with plans to return in 2 weeks for another 3. urg.
About 18m ago I believe it was, I think it was during my april trips to work on my exchange upgrade rollout, I was up late as per usual....rolled out of bed and wandered across the street to peets.
The office is in one hotel, and I generally stay at the other hotel which is about 2 blocks away so that I have to "commute" to work. After getting snowed in for 2 weeks a couple xmases ago....I need to get OUT. LOL.
So Peets is across the street from the hotel I sleep in, and en route to the one with the office. I msged my coworker Todd to meet me as i'm the free coffee mule when I come to town (I can expense).
I've ordered my coffee and i'm waiting when I look over and whom do I see? Matt.
Now Peets isn't that large of an establishment that I could just pretend I didn't see the guy. So I decided to be the bigger person and walked over and said "hi...I know you...."
He immediately stammers "I LIVE HERE NOW"
and gives me the cold fish handshake. ugh...how I hate that. I pride myself on being one of the guys and having a non-wimpy handshake by any standards, so I immediately judge guys who have the weak clammy handshakes. ew.
I respond "um..ok? I work here"
(I mean WTF? how else do you respond?)
matt : "Yeah, I know....you work for COMPANY don't you?"
me : "yes..." *puzzled look*
matt : "yeah, my wife and I saw you walking down the street yesterday. Didn't you see us?"
me : "no?"
(thinking - why on EARTH would I be checking cars for people I know? the only people I know in portland work with me? dur?)
matt : *leans in close* "so um...I don't know how much you want to talk...lets get coffee"
me : (totally having flashback moment when matt would find some flaw in me and lecture me and end up with me crying and apologizing after hours of discussion. this happened near nightly and one night would be "you talk too much" and the next "you talked too little" and the subsequent "you didn't talk about important events" and then "you were too serious" etc)
me : "errr....I have coffee!" *walks to counter to grab drink*
me : "um...I'm surprised you could find me"
matt : "yeah, josh found your married name awhile back..."
*todd walks in*
me : *akward silence* "um, todd this is matt, matt - Todd"
matt : "so uh...I have a meeting..."
me : "Actually, we do too, don't we todd?"
todd : *nods*
matt : *stands there akwardly...then turns around and walks off without tasty hot beverage or goodbye etc*
me : "well, that was fucking weird"
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Couple months later, I'm in town again.
walking back from our NOC I stop in hotel room for stuff I needed to take into office, stop at peets to sit outside and chatted on phone for like 2hrs with a couple diff ppl.
Peets has 2 doors, a main one and a side one. there are 3 tables that are near the side door, and i've been sitting there like 2hrs.
I stand up to go inside and get drink and head into office (it's late, like 6pm) again and lo....matt is sitting inside peets with a clear visual of the back of my head, meanwhile I was facing other direction so had no idea.
he must have wandered into main door and sat down at some point perhaps since I never saw him??
Weird.
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Flash forward again - I've been here almost 3 weeks and made a comment that I probably wouldn't be able to avoid "accidentally" running into him...yet again.
I leave in 3 days and thought i'd made it through without incident which seemed unlikely....when Todd and I are standing outside the back door of the hotel - when he comes sauntering down the street.
I swear, I think he has something he wants to say to me - I just have no idea WHAT.
I really have no desire to see nor talk to him, but if it got him to stop stalking me i'd be happy to hear him out already.
But seriously - That was a lifetime ago, I was 22 the last time I saw him. What am I going to say to him?
"Yes my favorite color is still blue, I have 2 boys, I still work in IT....ok, thats about it"
*shrug*
It's just really Effen weird. That about sums it up.
remember if you will (http://ectv.livejournal.com/19311.html) my first/Ex Matt. Moved to texas, we broke up, had a bootycall thing until I got tired of that shit and moved the hell on. Sadly it wasn't to entirely greener pastures. LOL.
Fast forward to like er, 06? about the time doug and I were seperating. For some odd reason I felt the need to google. I actually had to sit and ponder for about an hour because I actually forgot his LAST NAME! *facepalm*
It had been years since I thought of him, actually. I googled, saw he had moved to CA and I believe he'd just moved to Portland oregon. This was right before (I think?) I traveled to PDX for the very first time.
I remember saying, thank god I knew because it would be a hella big shock.
Well, I've been going back and forth to PDX with increasing frequency (who has AA elite status? me thats who!) lately, and spending long periods of time - usually 10 days or so. This is the tail end of my 3 week trip, with plans to return in 2 weeks for another 3. urg.
About 18m ago I believe it was, I think it was during my april trips to work on my exchange upgrade rollout, I was up late as per usual....rolled out of bed and wandered across the street to peets.
The office is in one hotel, and I generally stay at the other hotel which is about 2 blocks away so that I have to "commute" to work. After getting snowed in for 2 weeks a couple xmases ago....I need to get OUT. LOL.
So Peets is across the street from the hotel I sleep in, and en route to the one with the office. I msged my coworker Todd to meet me as i'm the free coffee mule when I come to town (I can expense).
I've ordered my coffee and i'm waiting when I look over and whom do I see? Matt.
Now Peets isn't that large of an establishment that I could just pretend I didn't see the guy. So I decided to be the bigger person and walked over and said "hi...I know you...."
He immediately stammers "I LIVE HERE NOW"
and gives me the cold fish handshake. ugh...how I hate that. I pride myself on being one of the guys and having a non-wimpy handshake by any standards, so I immediately judge guys who have the weak clammy handshakes. ew.
I respond "um..ok? I work here"
(I mean WTF? how else do you respond?)
matt : "Yeah, I know....you work for COMPANY don't you?"
me : "yes..." *puzzled look*
matt : "yeah, my wife and I saw you walking down the street yesterday. Didn't you see us?"
me : "no?"
(thinking - why on EARTH would I be checking cars for people I know? the only people I know in portland work with me? dur?)
matt : *leans in close* "so um...I don't know how much you want to talk...lets get coffee"
me : (totally having flashback moment when matt would find some flaw in me and lecture me and end up with me crying and apologizing after hours of discussion. this happened near nightly and one night would be "you talk too much" and the next "you talked too little" and the subsequent "you didn't talk about important events" and then "you were too serious" etc)
me : "errr....I have coffee!" *walks to counter to grab drink*
me : "um...I'm surprised you could find me"
matt : "yeah, josh found your married name awhile back..."
*todd walks in*
me : *akward silence* "um, todd this is matt, matt - Todd"
matt : "so uh...I have a meeting..."
me : "Actually, we do too, don't we todd?"
todd : *nods*
matt : *stands there akwardly...then turns around and walks off without tasty hot beverage or goodbye etc*
me : "well, that was fucking weird"
*******************************************************************
Couple months later, I'm in town again.
walking back from our NOC I stop in hotel room for stuff I needed to take into office, stop at peets to sit outside and chatted on phone for like 2hrs with a couple diff ppl.
Peets has 2 doors, a main one and a side one. there are 3 tables that are near the side door, and i've been sitting there like 2hrs.
I stand up to go inside and get drink and head into office (it's late, like 6pm) again and lo....matt is sitting inside peets with a clear visual of the back of my head, meanwhile I was facing other direction so had no idea.
he must have wandered into main door and sat down at some point perhaps since I never saw him??
Weird.
********************************************************************
Flash forward again - I've been here almost 3 weeks and made a comment that I probably wouldn't be able to avoid "accidentally" running into him...yet again.
I leave in 3 days and thought i'd made it through without incident which seemed unlikely....when Todd and I are standing outside the back door of the hotel - when he comes sauntering down the street.
I swear, I think he has something he wants to say to me - I just have no idea WHAT.
I really have no desire to see nor talk to him, but if it got him to stop stalking me i'd be happy to hear him out already.
But seriously - That was a lifetime ago, I was 22 the last time I saw him. What am I going to say to him?
"Yes my favorite color is still blue, I have 2 boys, I still work in IT....ok, thats about it"
*shrug*
It's just really Effen weird. That about sums it up.