Sorry, didn't mean to eulogize about my bint on here
And they say romance is dead..............
Yeah well you see, that's romance for me - I'm not generally attracted to the usual vacuous hairspray advert that thinks him/herself superior cos they wouldn't be seen dead on two wheels or in hefty boots - as a teenager I remember I once fancied this girl who blabbed on about how she'd been to Africa on photography trips etc... the ultimate independant woman, feminist (note this is 30 years ago) therefore interesting but not extreme enough to be a bore (or irrelevant to a horny teenage boy!)... anyway, she said she'd done some cycling, so as you can imagine I was squirming with desire. So I lent her a bike, we were supposedly going swimming...
This is the awful bit, I can hardly bear to recall it...
She said "oh no, it's got those funny handlebars" (drops) - my heart started to sink, and then she asked "what are those clip things on the pedals?"... eventually - "I can't ride this, I'll fall off" - and as my heart hit the bottom she said "can we take the bus?". From that point onwards I soooooo didn't fancy her, I personally despised every single molecule she was made of.
Mates saw pics of her and told me "she's pretty - Raph you're an idiot" - I thought
they were the idiots. I said get a copy of Cosmo or whatever it is and gawp at some bimbos in there, and when you're bored with that, get off with a bird with some GUTS.
Oh dear I've done it again... but I don't think that was entirely off-topic, was it?
Clare - have a good time in "USA, Japan, S.E. Asia, China, Central Asia and Europe" - and I'm glad yer fella's up for it too! Send your colleague lots of postcards!