Once she didn't need help with her calculus problems I apparently had become excess baggage.Once she didn't need help with her calculus problems I apparently had become excess baggage. She didn't return my phone calls and eventually I got the hint and stopped calling. The last that I had heard she was signed up with several different softball and volleyball teams and was too busy to see me. Six or seven months later towards the end of fall and the beginning of winter, I was driving on the freeway back to my apartment when I heard a car beeping it's horn in the lane to my right. I turned to look only to see Kim's smiling face looking back at me from her new Sunbird (working for an auto company has some advantages). She waved at me and I smiled and waved back figuring that it would be it would be impolite to flip her the bird and mouth the phrase "Eat shit and die bitch!". About fifteen minutes or so after I arrived back at my apartment the phone rang and I answered it expecting it to be for one of my four roommates (while Kim had gone and gotten a job that paid big bucks, I went to grad school. Big mistake). When I picked it up I heard that oh so familiar voice, Kim. "Hi, Dave. When I saw you on the freeway I realized that I hadn't seen you in a while so I thought I'd call and see how you're doing." "Oh, not too bad, how about you?" .... This mundane sort of drivel went on for a few minutes while I was tried to figure out what the point of all this was. Eventually the point became that she "kinda" missed me and would I like to go out again. Being that I was bored and had no better prospects for that coming Saturday I said "sure thing", and told her I would pick her up at 7:00 and we could go out for a nice dinner. Saturday came and that afternoon I got another phone call from Kim. "Would it be all right if we went to my friend's house instead of dinner? I haven't seen her in a long time." "No problem." (I was way too nice in those days). Now I was starting to get some bad feelings about this. As they say, it was deja vu all over again. We went to the party and the only thing interesting that came out of it was that when I was talking to some of Kim's friends from college (since Kim had left me to myself most of the night), I found out that she had seen them about as much as she saw me. |