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In defense of Luke
May. 10th, 2006 01:36 pmAll season long he's been under the impression that everything was "just fine". Lorelie was the one who suggested postponing the wedding, not him. And whenever he would ask her "Are you sure you're okay with this" about ANYTHING, she would always reply with "Oh, yeah, totaly okay with it!"
Then she avoided him for a few days. Didn't return phone calls, had friends lie to him about where she was... she just completely shut him out.
Then, VERY unexpectedly she bursts in to the diner, OBVIOUSLY over emotional over something, and demands that he elope with her RIGHT NOW. Don't think about it, don't ask and questions, just do it NOW or LOSE ME.
Now let me take you back in time in my own personal private life, when I had an on-line relationship with a girl named Kelly in New York. I was infatuated with Kelly. Sent her presents all the time, made web sites devoted to her, and spent MANY LONG HOURS of the phone with her long-distance, both from home and from work.
One day, she called me at work and she was in tears. She wouldn't go in to any details, asked to not ask any questionsbut over and over she asked me to fly out to New York and "Sweep her off her feet", take her away from it all, make the lonliness and longing stop.
And so I did. My first trip west of Idaho was a middle-of-the-night flight to New York! The entire flight I was excited to finally hold her in my arms and sweep her off her feet just as she had requested. But when I got there, things were much colder. She had brought her Mother with her, and aparently The Mother was the only reason Kelly showed up at all. She had wanted to just ditch me there because after I was on the plane she started having second thoughts and didn't want me to come after all.
So I spent one lonely night in a cheap hotel room in New York, then flew back home in the morning (a ticket her family paid for out of guilt).
The lesson I learned that week? NEVER make a life-altering decision based on the words or actions of someone who seems overly emotional at the time. Wait until you can talk about it rationally, or you'l end up lowing your life savings on a last-minute ticket to New York and a crappy hotel room to be alone in.
Then she avoided him for a few days. Didn't return phone calls, had friends lie to him about where she was... she just completely shut him out.
Then, VERY unexpectedly she bursts in to the diner, OBVIOUSLY over emotional over something, and demands that he elope with her RIGHT NOW. Don't think about it, don't ask and questions, just do it NOW or LOSE ME.
Now let me take you back in time in my own personal private life, when I had an on-line relationship with a girl named Kelly in New York. I was infatuated with Kelly. Sent her presents all the time, made web sites devoted to her, and spent MANY LONG HOURS of the phone with her long-distance, both from home and from work.
One day, she called me at work and she was in tears. She wouldn't go in to any details, asked to not ask any questionsbut over and over she asked me to fly out to New York and "Sweep her off her feet", take her away from it all, make the lonliness and longing stop.
And so I did. My first trip west of Idaho was a middle-of-the-night flight to New York! The entire flight I was excited to finally hold her in my arms and sweep her off her feet just as she had requested. But when I got there, things were much colder. She had brought her Mother with her, and aparently The Mother was the only reason Kelly showed up at all. She had wanted to just ditch me there because after I was on the plane she started having second thoughts and didn't want me to come after all.
So I spent one lonely night in a cheap hotel room in New York, then flew back home in the morning (a ticket her family paid for out of guilt).
The lesson I learned that week? NEVER make a life-altering decision based on the words or actions of someone who seems overly emotional at the time. Wait until you can talk about it rationally, or you'l end up lowing your life savings on a last-minute ticket to New York and a crappy hotel room to be alone in.
