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Date: 23 January 2006 09:17:12
I had a drink with a couple of friends.
It was late on a Saturday night and we were in a cellar bar called the Howff. I had a yellowdrink, either to be sophisticated or just to indulge my sweet tooth. Whichever it was, I was mocked for having a "wifey's drink".
We'd just been to the cinema to see "The Crying Game" which was pretty good, as well as rather surprising in an entertaining way. One particularly memorable scene contains a surprise which causes the main character to throw up, and it seemed to have the same effect on half the audience. If you've seen it, you'll know what I'm talking about, and if not, well, I'd recommend it.
But none of this would have stuck in my mind so, and I certainly wouldn't have remembered the date of it, had it not been for the phone call I had before we went out. It was from a girl I knew at uni who had since moved a long way away. We hadn't ever been all that close, although several years before when I broke up with a girlfriend she was the one who showed me some genuine sympathy and concern while it seemed like nobody else gave a damn. After she moved away she had come back occasionally to visit old friends, and she must have been up fairly recently because I had found myself thinking a lot about her. So when she phoned up and asked if we could become an item (the term "going out" just doesn't seem remotely appropriate when you're living 500 miles apart) it was completely out of the blue and yet didn't surprise me at all. Which is probably why I was able to answer without needing even a moment's thought. It's funny how the most momentous decisions can be made so quickly and easily.
Last night she phoned a very good friend of ours who we were both rather concerned about. And as I listened to her speak on the phone it seemed that everything she said was exactly what I wanted to say only she put it much better, or things that I wish I'd thought of to say, and I was really struck by how she demonstrated our love and concern so much better than I could ever do. It was a fairly long phone call and during it I fell head over heels in love all over again.