Wednesday, October 04, 2006

Not much about surfing

Today was 80 degrees and sunny. There was nothing worth surfing but I went to the beach just to enjoy this last day of summer. The beach was practically deserted---just me, a few others and who else, C. Living here means I'm going to see him a lot since he's only a couple of blocks away. It's not like he has a job to go to or anything.

So I'm doing some work on the beach, editing, but of course I'm watching him the whole time. Even though he has a girlfriend who seems to make him very happy, he cannot walk by a woman without trying something. I watched him walk on the beach, swim, speak to an attractive woman who was by herself, swim some more, then settle down on her towel to hang out for an hour. To the best of my knowledge she's not a friend, just a random potential conquest he met today.

So I'm watching him, and I can't help it, he still gives me chills.

Then he leaves, then I leave, then I get a racy text message from someone, no name, just a number I don't recognize. It was a bit freaky because it referred to what I was wearing that day. Who could have done this? C., just to make fun of me? A., an old friend and sometime jerk who I'd seen just that morning and so knew what I was wearing?

Finally I call the number and the mystery is solved. It's B., a surfer I don't know well but someone who, for mysterious reasons, has carried on a fake flirtation with me mostly by internet for over a year. I had to laugh, because it really was funny. While I was watching C. he was also on the beach, watching me watch him, and I had no idea he was even there. The affair with B. is a purely intellectual one and quite harmless precisely because it's so clearly improbable, but all the more outrageous for being harmless. I could say almost anything to him without any danger of it ever being acted on, which is great fun. Even though his message was totally a joke it was a great joke and really made my day. An outrageously fake passion is much better and more fun than a real rejection.

6 Comments:

At Thursday, October 12, 2006 8:31:00 PM, Blogger SlowPolk said...

This is how it is for me also

 
At Thursday, October 12, 2006 8:33:00 PM, Blogger SlowPolk said...

That comment was for the previous post

 
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