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- From: millernw@craft.camp.clarkson.edu (Neal Miller)
- Subject: Re: best friend gets my "dream girl"
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- Date: Fri, 25 Dec 1992 06:35:45 GMT
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- In article <tai-231292220649@slip-x48.ots.utexas.edu>, tai@utaphy.ph.utexas.edu (peter) writes...
-
- >>Recently i've met a girl, not just any ordinary girl, we're talking about
- >>the girl of my dream. She's everything that i've ever wanted in a woman.
- >>So we meet and talk and she ends up being my best friend's girl.
-
- >Whoever answers the above, try this one on for size, too...
-
- >I met a girl who fits the above description perfectly, and I tried my
- >best (although I'm admittedly inexperienced in such things) to get her
- >to go out with me or whatever...
-
- The two above stories remind me of my senior prom four years back.
- The story behind this sounds farfetched, but I assure you that it is all
- true. I'll have to abbreviate the names a bit though. I'd had a minor
- crush on a girl, K, whom I'd known since seventh grade. She was always in
- my homeroom, and she was a good friend of mine. I found out that she was a
- lesbian around 10th grade or so. I was shocked for about five minutes, then
- it dawned on me that *she* hadn't changed... She was always like that, and
- was a good friend of mine, so it didn't matter. Actually, my finding out that
- K was a lesbian made our friendship a little easier on me, because now I knew
- there was *NO* chance of me ever going out with her, and I could stop being
- careful of every word I said.
-
- Well, I decided that I'd ask her to the prom. After all, I had no
- steady girlfriend at the time, and K was a very nice person. Unfortunately,
- the day before I was going to ask her another friend of mine, G, approached me.
- He told me, happy as a clam, that he'd just asked K to the prom, and she'd
- accepted. Minor problem. There's no way I could be upset with him for this,
- after all, I had no claims on K, nor did G know I was planning to ask.
- Besides, there was plenty of time for me to find and ask someone else. Within
- a week, I'd asked another nice girl (L) who brought new meaning to the term
- "effervescant" to join me to the prom, and she accepted.
-
- Anyway here's the problem: K was going out with C. C was another
- girl of course, who was both possessive and more than a bit on the clinically
- psychotic side. She didn't take to kindly to the idea of G taking K to the
- prom, whether they were "just friends" or not. For about two weeks, K was
- alternating between "I don't give a fuck what C says" to "I can't go with you
- to the prom", every few days. As a friend, I talked to K, and told her that
- since she accepted, she really owed it to G to go with him, and reminded her
- that she'd feel awful for quite a while if she backed out at the last minute
- because of C's pressuring. This came to a climax when I got word that C was
- coming the high school to "talk" to G (C didn't go to our school), and C was
- carrying a knife (plus C had limited training in martial arts). G, needless
- to say, was a nervous wreck by this time. I repeat... I'm not making any of
- this up.
-
- G is a very nice guy, but with all respect he's about as capable of
- defending himself as an avocado is capable of shooting pool. G knew that
- while I detest fighting, I had a black belt, and shared several high school
- classes with him. C also knew that I had a black belt, and we were sort of
- counting on that. So I tailed him in the hallway for a few days, and more
- that once, I saw C walking away from me shoving something in her pant leg. I
- kept G on his toes, and me amused with the occasional false alarm, but the
- week went by without incident.
-
- As the prom date drew nearer, G came up to me, and explained that the
- good news is that C finally "approved" of K's going to the prom. The bad news
- was that C was going along too. I grinned and told him that I envied him...
- After all, he got TWO dates for the prom, while I only had one. After
- swinging at me, we decided that there was really nothing we could do at this
- point.
-
- Well, the plan for the prom involved eight of us (four couples) riding
- to Ithaca (about an hour away) in my parent's mini-van, and one of the couples
- volunteered to drive their own car, because the mini-van's only made to hold
- six or seven. I told K that I was more than willing to drive her and G, but
- not C. K talked to C, and it was decided that C and K would drive in a
- seperate car. G would ride in the minivan with the rest of us.
-
- While we were picking up another one of the couples for the mini-van,
- I saw C grab K, pull her into their car, and drive away, leaving the rest of
- us just standing there including G in his tux. He lucked out in a major way,
- because another girl (R) who'd been a friend of mine until she graduated two
- years earlier was visiting a friend in that neighborhood, and G, figuring that
- nothing else could go wrong, asked R to the prom there and then. She looked
- at me, and told me that if I drove her to her house, and gave her twenty
- minutes to put on her dress and all, she'd go. G was ecstatic. R went to the
- dinner, and the prom with G on twenty minutes notice. We all had a great time,
- and we didn't see much of either K or C for the whole night. Plus G and R
- got off pretty well, and were seeing each other for some time after the prom.
-
- I guess you could say that we all lived happily ever after. I don't
- see much of L, my own prom date, anymore, but when I do, we get along fine.
- G is about to graduate from a school on the east coast, doing some bartending
- on the side. R is trying to get a job on an english degree, which is no easy
- task. K is still living at home, but should be graduating from a local
- university this May. I haven't any idea nor concern as to where C is today,
- other than knowing that she's not seeing K anymore. I'm now seeing a
- wonderful girl who wasn't in this narrative, and maintaining a long-distance,
- yet extremely satisfying relationship with her. This entirely true story
- won me $6 in my freshman year of college during a semi-sober "true prom-night
- story" contest.
-
- As to anyone whose failed to find a member of the opposite sex (or
- same sex, depending on your tastes) who feels as strongly about you as you
- do about him/her, remember: There's no time limit. No rule says that "You
- must know love by the age of X". Be patient, and keep trying. If it pays
- of for you half as well as it payed off for me, you'll be in fine shape.
-
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