Flashback

I am watching the hockey game tonight and there was an ad for some sort of alcohol with the tagline "purer than your intentions".  It reminded me of a guy I once knew.

Josh was someone I met at a high school conference.  We ran against each other in the mock national election (where we had to choose a famous Canadian to represent).  He ran as Pamela Anderson and I, as Mike Myers.  We kept in touch after the conference, but as most random connections go, we went our own ways and that was that.

Four years later, we ended up another youth leadership conference together, without realizing that we'd see each other.  A definite blast from the past...

A few months later, we learned that we'd be interning at the same company for the summer.  We became good friends that summer, playing on the corporate softball team together, helping with the company's Junior Achievement team together, etc.  It was great and to boot, we both had full time offers for the following year, by the time we finished that summer.

After working (and socializing) together for almost a year, I learned that Josh was dating (rather randomly sleeping with) one of my co-workers.  I always knew him as a bit of a player so wasn't surprised that he was sleeping around; however, what I wasn't expecting is the dialogue that followed.

With quite a few friends, we met up at a fabulous jazz club.  I hadn't seen him in about a week and he came up to me right away:

"Hey Anika, how's it going?"

"All is well, thanks," I said, giving him a hug.

"You know, I've been thinking about us, and I've been meaning to talk to you," he continues.  "I just think that we'd make a really good couple.  What do you think?"

"Well, Josh, it would definitely ruin our friendship and I kind of like our friendship the way it is", I try.

"But, I want more than friendship and I think that we'd be really good together", he persists.

"Well, we just have different ways of viewing things, I think", I insist.

He looked into my eyes, looked down to the floor for a brief moment before looking at me again, with slightly sadder, puppier eyes and said: "No, I don't think that's the case.  I think we have the same morals and values... ... you should just do a better job at living up to them than I do!".

Great pick up line!

He went home with the co-worker that he'd been sleeping with...