I went to a free walking tour that was affiliated with the Pub Crawl and it was canceled because only two people showed. No. It wasn't Congress St. or Fry St. But, it was one of the other Americans from the group and boy did he reveal juicy intel. We'll call this guy Cali-Jing. Rationale? He's originally from California, but presently resides in Bejing, teaching English as a second language. NICE. Anywho... He started talking about the crawl and how he was disappointed about the pubs they brought us too and then asked for my opinion. What was I supposed to say? I had a blast because I had two hotties with bodies fighting over me? So... I just compared it to my crawl in Dublin, which had absolutely NO Americans and how I found it comforting that there were several for me to get on a first name basis with... ya know what I'm saying? ;) IRONY. I didn't remember his OR his hottie friend's name OR the guy I was talking to in this very conversation. He said, "Yeah, well the other Americans had fun because they were only looking to hook up." I raised my eyebrows and subconsciously leaned in. "Yeah, they were hitting on the bartender and tour guide and contemplating if they were going to stay with the crawl if there weren't any other participants." "Really?" was all I could muster up. My mind reinforced the fact that "hellllllloooo these are single military men, in their twenties, and have quite big ah-ha-ha egos FROM AUSTIN, so yeah... this shouldn't be of surprise. What did take me by surprise, to say the very very least, was when Cali-Jing said, "Yeah, and the one playing beer pong with you even said he had a girl friend before you got there." I'll be damned if 6th Street wasn't telling the bloody truth. And I believed his "she was my first love and I messed up and now we're just cordial --YET SHE'S THE SCREEN COVER TO MY PHONE." I should have broke out into song on the Spanish steps (that's where we were walking when Cali-Jing revealed that minor detail). At least he wasn't married but GOSH! This is NOT the first time this has happened. Cheating poppycock! I feel so bad for his girlfriend... who would've known the more aggressively flirty one would have been telling the truth? Who would've known to ask the other American in the group's opinion? I was visibly and verbally torn up about it and in an attempt to comfort me, Cali-jing said, "Well, she had to know with him being abroad, it wasn't going to be a great combination..." "But that's no excuse to cheat. I have no tolerance for infidelity...." "But, you don't know what she's like or the nature of their relationship." "Is he being blackmailed to stay with her because he's a Russian spy? No, he should have broken up with her. I had a boy friend in the states and ended it because I knew the distance was going to be nearly impossible with the time change, the 4 significant people in my life I need to squeeze into conversation/skyping/snapping daily, and prime time activities like hiking and such when that may have been the only time for me to talk to him.... it just wasn't fair to him. And selfishly, it wasn't fair to me to restrict my travel when the point of this adventure is to soak it ALL in. You can't have your cake and eat it too." I wish I had a picture of his face when I blurted all of that out. "Well.... I guess you're uh, right." "He kissed me!" "Well, you didn't know..." I was beside myself. Obviously, I didn't reveal my rendezvous with a complete stranger to another complete stranger but boy, was the guilt train riding me. All I kept thinking was OH MY GOSH!
And the party keeps rocking....OH! This is a picture my new friend from Cali and Bejing took of me and my new Asian couple friends. I seem to have this knack for strangers.....
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