Alone

[Livnlearn]

Absolutely no offence taken, Mojo. Did you get my email, by the way?

I didn't hear from H in answer to my email earlier, so I emailed again to see if he had got my message about not coming for lunch. H rang just now.

Firstly, he wanted to know if I had the telephone number of one of HIS old friends in other country. I said, not. It is not in H's nature to keep a track of the addresses and phone numbers of even his own friends! This has happened all the time. I was his keeper of documents, records, information, whatever. Oooops - I take that back - I did NOTHING!!!!!

Anyway, then he says, it is a shame I can't go for lunch, he really wanted to give me my DVD present himself! He asks me if I really am so busy? I say, I have stuff to be doing... Then there is this long silence. He says, it is like D on the phone sometimes, only you can hear her breathing! (She used to be more like that when she was younger and she had nothing to say on the phone...) H says, pity, I wanted to see you...

Then H asked what I was doing this weekend. I told him his nephew and family were coming down. He said, oh nice, maybe we could meet up for lunch? I pointed out that they were only leaving to come here after Saturday lunch, as the kids have Saturday morning school, and he said, oh yeah.

I was wondering to myself what became of his plan to spend the weekend walking with friends... but I didn't ask about that.

Funny old world.

Livnlearn