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Re: OT: OK, here's what happened....

From: Ground Zero Games <jon@g...>
Date: Wed, 24 Mar 1999 22:07:25 +0000
Subject: Re: OT: OK, here's what happened....

>OK, for both of who were on the Mark A. Siefert suicide watch, my
thanks
>for your sympathy and support...
>
>I've finally calmed down to the point were I can talk about what
happened.
>At the time, I had only been out with this girl twice.  Everything was
>going quite well and we were even getting to the point where we started
>smooching a few times
>
>Then, I made a deadly mistake:  I sent her a dozen long-stemmed roses
via
>FTD.
>
>This monday she took me aside to tell me that the gift was way over the
>top.  She said there was a "misunderstanding,"  she didn't think of me
>that way, and that she just wanted to be friends.. you all know the
rest.

Ah, the "F" word, the one thing that any male does NOT want to hear from
a
female he likes a lot....
>
>I've been told that finding love is similar to the way a great
detective
>solves a crime:  You gather clues, interview witnesses, follow
>leads; but most of the time you rely on blind, stupid LUCK.
>
>Unfortunetly, I'm not very lucky (as anyone who has seen my FT dice
rolls
>can tell you).  By the time I deduce that it was Miss. Scarlet in the
>conservatory with the lead pipe, Sherlock Holmes, Hercule Poirot, and
even
>Brother Cadfael have apprehended her and all the other suspects.

I believe it was much more likely to have been Colonel Mustard in the
broom
closet with the French Maid, but we won't go into that....
>
>Maybe it's time I hung up my deerstalker and magnifying glass.
>
>Later,
>Mark A. Siefert

Keep your chin up, Mark. It WILL get better.

Jon (GZG)
>
>"[Like] fire and fusion, government is a dangerous servant and a
terrible
>master."
>
>					--Professor Bernardo de la Paz
>					"The Moon is a Harsh Mistress"
>					by Robert A. Heinlein
>
>E-MAIL: cthulhu@csd.uwm.edu	WWW: http://www.uwm.edu/~cthulhu
>=======================================================================
==

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