Romeo and Juliet (updated)
My my ... this has been a most interesting week. (huge understatement)
I just returned from the airport, following a final meeting with the Vancouver Police, in order to put Romeo (aka: our Visitor From Denmark .. or VFD for short) on a plane back to the land of proper pastries and lovely cheese and his poor mortified parents. Now, why, you might ask... (or you might not... but assuming you did) would the police want to send a 17 yr old boy back to Denmark when he had only just arrived here a few days ago?
Ahhh ... well that is a rather long and sordid story involving the internet, multiple misunderstandings, immaturity (quite a lot of that and not just by those under the age of majority), a rather hefty number of fibs (ok.. outright lies then), people in Taiwan, young girls that may or may not be 13 or 14 or 15, Shakespeare, intrigue, subterfuge, and one very annoyed wiener dog.
Now - of course I could put the full tale behind a cut for the curious ..... however that would mean that I'd actually have to write the darned thing out .... which would involve a certain amount of time (largish) on my part . Not that I would particularly mind doing that IF there was overwhelming interest on the part of others in reading such a saga, ..... but let's be honest here: I have no need to put the story down for myself .... heck, I already know the darned story!
So that's that.
I need a martini now.
I just returned from the airport, following a final meeting with the Vancouver Police, in order to put Romeo (aka: our Visitor From Denmark .. or VFD for short) on a plane back to the land of proper pastries and lovely cheese and his poor mortified parents. Now, why, you might ask... (or you might not... but assuming you did) would the police want to send a 17 yr old boy back to Denmark when he had only just arrived here a few days ago?
Ahhh ... well that is a rather long and sordid story involving the internet, multiple misunderstandings, immaturity (quite a lot of that and not just by those under the age of majority), a rather hefty number of fibs (ok.. outright lies then), people in Taiwan, young girls that may or may not be 13 or 14 or 15, Shakespeare, intrigue, subterfuge, and one very annoyed wiener dog.
Now - of course I could put the full tale behind a cut for the curious ..... however that would mean that I'd actually have to write the darned thing out .... which would involve a certain amount of time (largish) on my part . Not that I would particularly mind doing that IF there was overwhelming interest on the part of others in reading such a saga, ..... but let's be honest here: I have no need to put the story down for myself .... heck, I already know the darned story!
So that's that.
I need a martini now.