Not happening
If you think being retired will be easy work, think again. I’m on a four-month leave of absence from my job and if I want to do more than watch TV and surf the Internet, I have to get busy. When I am at work, I have two […]
Self-employed engineer
In an email with only occasional punctuation, but with frequent capitalization, came this: “I am self employed Engineer,Studied the course Metro-Chemical Engineering with a Degree.” Metro-chemical engineering must be for men of ambiguous sexuality who have excellent fashion sense. I’m picturing David Beckham in Fort McMurray. Or, maybe metro-chemical engineering is for studying […]
So, what do you do exactly?
We met for the first date lunch at a truck stop on Highway 2. When we met, I almost didn’t recognise him because he looked about ten years older than his dating site profile picture. How long did he think it would take me to figure that out? Over lunch, […]
Red Work Boots
I am going to be volunteering at a Habitat for Humanity worksite on Thursday. Because I didn’t bring my work boots with me to California, I went to buy some. The store was very closely packed, and there were lots and lots of boots in boxes. I started to […]
Nudge, nudge, wink, wink.
We had agreed to meet at a small lunch cafe, and when I arrived he was already seated inside, eating his lunch. “It smelled so good, I couldn’t wait,” he said. After I got my lunch we chatted about who we were and where we came from. After […]
I let her do that
Conversation after a long “get to know you” walk: He: You don’t always agree with everything I say. That’s refreshing. Me: Surely other people in your life disagree with you sometimes. What about the people you work with? He: No. They don’t argue. Me: Why not? He: Because […]
Arrow space
I just got an email from a man who said he worked in the “arrow space” industry for 30 years. That must be inside the quiver, I guess.
