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Yesterday, I said how much I liked driving. Well, today I drove back to New Jersey from Rhode Island and was SO BORED after the first 30 minutes. Then I did something I never do. I picked up my phone to find someone to call. So now two things that never happen, are happening. I only use my cell phone as a tool to give and receive information quickly. Whether it's making a reservation somewhere, ordering food, or telling Claudine that I'm in traffic and she has to pick up the kids, I never, never use the cell phone to have a nice, normal, phone conversation with someone. Until today.
I picked up my phone and wracked my brain for someone to call. And then it hit me - I knew who to call. It was so simple. Why, I'll call my ex-wife, TJ. Obvious, isn't it? Actually, we've gone a long way past our breakup. We've been in contact a number of times once the dust cleared from all that legal stuff. And the last e-mail TJ sent me (from about a year ago) was that she was going to get married again. And I never heard anything about it after that. So that requires a phone call doesn't it? I called her at work (dialing the number from memory no less, and we've been divorced for at least a decade).
She was a bit surprised to hear from me. As she always is when I just appear out of nowhere. We just caught up like old friends speaking after not speaking for awhile. Which, I guess, is what we are. One freaky thing that I found out is that her father passed away earlier in the year. So we both lost our fathers in the first half of 2002. I dunno, I just found that a little weird. Anyway, that caused her to postpone her wedding plans until later this year. It turns out that she is getting married on November 15th. We were married on November 11th. Hmmmmm, seems a little odd to me. TJ said that when the planning started she told everyone that she wouldn't definitely get married in November. But that was what worked out best for everyone. I jumped in here to remind her that she had told me at one point that she would never get married again, never mind November. I could tell that she wanted to tell me to shut up, but she was polite.
Eventually, she had to get back to work. But I was only halfway through Connecticut. Who to call now? I hadn't talked to my friend Kerry in awhile. Fortunately, she was home, so we talked for about 30 or 45 minutes - basically until I got to the turnoff for the Tappan Zee bridge. These two women saved me from the most boring drive in the world.
So what is the deal with me reconnecting with my past? Am I going through a weird mid-life crisis after turning 39? Not really, because I've been looking to speak to K for a number of years and I've been e-mailing my ex-wife for a couple of years now. I think it's just all a big coincidence.
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