Reunion

[judecorp]

Ugh, I wish I could stop coughing. That is really getting annoying and my voice sounds so craptacular. Yuck.

Yesterday morning when I didn't go to work, I was tooling around on the internet and decided to check classmates.com, which I do about once a year. I had a message there from this girl I used to hang out with in junior high school. She'd contacted me once before through classmates a couple of years ago, but this message was from August and was something like, "I heard something about your dad and I want to know if it's true, please tell me how I can get in touch with you!" And so I wrote back with my e-mail address and a little note that said, "To whatever you heard, the answer is yes." So now she has started e-mailing me, which is cool.

So one of her e-mails said that she'd talked to my brother a while back and heard I got married. So I wrote back and said that yes, I'd gotten married right before my dad died, blah blah blah, and I attached one of the photos Patti took of Jen and me, and made some other chit chat. I got another e-mail from her this afternoon congratulating me on getting married, and asking about what my last name is now, and the best part was, "So what's your man's name?"

Holy crap, I laughed so hard I nearly pooped my pants.

I wrote back, "I don't have a man, silly, I have a wife! And her name is Jennifer. And I'm sorry that I assumed that you knew that but I just realized that I never thought about how far back you might have talked to my brother... because a million years ago I was married to a dude named Aaron who still lives in Ohio and just bought a house with his girlfriend. Oops."

I haven't heard anything back yet. Heh.

Comments

[thatpatti.livejournal.com]

oh poor girl - she's probably totally mortified!!!

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I have NO idea whether she'll be shocked or embarrassed (or both) or something totally different.

I suppose I need to wait and see if I get another e-mail!

[thespian.livejournal.com]

embarrassed that she assumed, or embarrassed that you are?

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

Embarrassed that she thought my wife was a man. Or embarrassed that I like girls. Who knows? I haven't seen this girl since I was about 15.

[calledmara.livejournal.com]

dude you gave me your cold through the cell phones. I've eaten literally 2 pounds of oranges today. If I am sick and can't have fun on vacation I will never talk to you when I am bored and waiting for the bus/having an existential crisis again.

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

Oh come ONNNNN - you're forgetting the cardinal rule - BLAME JEN. Clearly I did not make you sick. DUH.

Also, I love your existential crises, even though they make me miss you. Instead, I like to think of us hand-in-hand, walking into the sunset on a Sunday afternoon with a bagful of dumpstered pastry.

[amyura.livejournal.com]

Laughing so hard you almost pooped......that's cool. Usually my laughter only makes me want to pee.

You'd think the appropriate response to what you wrote back would be something along the lines of, "Ooops, sorry for the mixup! Congratulations just the same!" *shrug*

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

You would think, but it's so hard to tell with people you haven't spoken to in 15 years. Heck, last time I talked to her, we still thought New Kids on the Block was cool. ;)

And I didn't REALLY almost poop - but I'll let you think I did.

Here's hoping you have that baby soon!