Overhaulin' - You ever have a perfect, romantic night -- are in such a daze -- that you forget you're not with your wife?

You ever have a perfect, romantic night -- are in such a daze -- that you forget you're not with your wife?

I am traveling to Buffalo on business by car (my classic El Camino) and had decided to take along my EF (Emotional Friend, about 21, female, completely platonic) because my wife takes no interest in my life or career, hates my car, and didn't want to go. I need an assistant, because this job is tricky -- and the drive is boring. (Have you ever been to upstate New York cow country?) Anyway, we pulled into Albany last night for a pit stop, all bleary-eyed, and I almost had to choke the clerk at Motel 6 because he kept insisting my EF reserved the hot-tub room with one bed, though I had seen her go online and book a room with two beds. This one was $19.99 more, to boot. I figured he was scamming us, but I was tired and relented. Well, we got in the room and it appears my EF did some research. See, I'd told her a while back that she looked just like the petite blond who was my girlfriend in high school, in the 80s, the last girlfriend I'd had before my wife. Anyway, we entered the room, and there were helium balloons everywhere -- in blue and yellow, my high school team color! She walked over to an old boom box and popped in a cassette -- a cassette! -- Shannon's "Let the Music Play." How did she know that was the tape my high school girlfriend left behind (in the El Camino)? In the mini-fridge were Olde English 40-ouncers, like we used to drink in high school, before they became "ghetto." How sweet, considering I went to a high school not far from Albany. She must've bribed the clerk to set up the room like this. After a few OE's with the EF, I started losing a sense of reality, and was so caught up in the mood and music -- and by this time the EF was wearing my varsity jacket (how'd she get that out of my attic, and get rid of the mothball smell?) along with (her) Liz Claiborne perfume -- that I looked into her eyes and thought I was in 1988, and it was the summer before I left for college, and had left my girlfriend behind. And in that unreality the EF became that girlfriend. And our eyes locked, and a moment seemed like over 20 years, and an alternate reality followed from there ... And a different house, and different kids, barking dogs and a white picket fence and growing old together, happy. You ever get caught up in a moment like that? Even though you're married, and your reality is already, sadly, set?

Public Comments

OOooh yeah! You should have made her bedrock.
That's classified information but it is permissible to state that I have such sweet memories of long ago passion.
Nice fantasy
wow you make me laugh! Sorry but dont every do that!
This sounds like your fantasy and if you got caught up in that, that's your fault. I feel sorry for your wife.
This is why some people clearly cannot have friends of the oposite sex. Someone always crosses a line at some point.Yes, it was a very romantic night...too bad it wasnt your wife. Clearly this woman has intentions other than being just you Emotional Friend. So unless you want to become a cheater, I suggest you try to help your wife be more invloved and spend more time with her. this woman seems all too good, but you know as well as i do, they all seem perfect and wonderfull in the begining, and then the crazy comes out.
This sounds like a movie I saw with Nicolas Cage. You can wonder what being with someone else might have been like, but it doesn't change the fact that your destiny is your destiny. The only thing you have control of is being the best person you possibly can and praying and thanking God for life period. All things work together for the good of those who love God. Some people don't make it to your age, have a wife, career or drive an El Camino. Be grateful.
You might have to start calling her your ES (emotional stalker, about 21, size 2, not too bright but obviously sneaky enough to get your tape and jacket, obsessed with you, completely platonic, at least on your end). This sounds like a sequel to Fatal Attraction. But that's not what you were asking. I have never had a moment like this, nor did I know the Motel 6 had a jacuzzi room or would go to such lengths for guests. Have fun and be good!
LOL,nice story reality.It doesn't have the same flow as the whole Krstka and Claire thing but I like where your going with it.With this one I do not believe it so much but I think you can pull it together,your pretty good.It will be an interesting read.
Eddie, I'll give you credit for one thing, among others, you ARE a good writer, have a great imagination, can paint a picture with words so one can actually feel like they've been along for the ride with the two of you. When you & your EF get together, you always know & can be sure it's going to be a very picturesque story. Very vivid descriptions where you don't miss a single thing. One can almost smell the perfume, picture the whole scenario. How did she know that jacket was in your attic?! What would make her take that along on your trip?! I think only you could get caught up in a moment like that. I would say you could be a very good writer as you have a way of actually putting a person in the place you're describing. No, can't say I've ever been caught up in a moment as you're describing, but it sure was interesting reading nonetheless. What would we all do without your little EF...take care, Eddie...:)
Nope cause I would not be out with anyone else lol :) Although I have been asked out to play pool tonight mmm :)
No, only in my dreams. Even in my dreams, though, I have my same kids, but I may have picked up an extra one, lol! It sounds like you had a conscious dream but it must have been just as hard to come back to reality as waking up from a dream in which everything is just the way you wish it was. Every once in a while you get one of those dreams that you wake up and you just say, "darn! let me go back to sleep and continue this." Bet you didn't want that feeling to end, did you? The difference was that you were with your EF and dreaming about another person. I'm sure your EF didn't mind, though, and she went to a lot of trouble for this. I'm not sure how much she did it for you and how much she did it for her, but at least you had a "moment" - good for you! Isn't it amazing how differently our lives could have turned out? Of course, nothing's really "perfect", but that doesn't mean it couldn't have been perfect for us, or that we couldn't have been happy.
wow, sounds like something out of a dream! If this really happened, she wants you bad! If you don't wanna screw up your marriage, I would avoid her. I am only a young dude who can't get laid, but I would not be able to resist that temptation, especially if she's pretty. Maybe you should talk to your wife, and tell her you'd like to relive some fantasies? I'm sure you could spark something up with her to make the magic come back. And nice car! I had an '86 El Camino a few years ago, it was a fun car! Mine had a 350 coupled to a TH350 transmission someone had dropped in, it was quick.
Fascinating....thanks for the good story, Eddie!
Yes I have been to upstate New York, the quaint little towns, the bed and breakfast, it is easy to fall back into the found memories of youth. It is nice that you had the opportunity to go back into your youth, to relive some of youthful experiences.
Mmmmm bb i m still waring ur jakit. this is a cheer we used 2 say in mi hi skool n i wanted 2 cher it w/u eddie eddie hes my man if he cant do it nobody can!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! xoxoxoxooxoxox bb it was majikal 4 mi too
Damn Eddie, don't you have this book ready for the publisher yet? You never did send details, Buffalo is right up the road here. You missed that opportunity for the wings and beer diet night.
no. ive only had 1 husband. and 'bill' is pretty easy to remember!! :p
no.
she seems fantastic!
i wouldn't get involved with this girl..............sounds like she could get CRAZY! plus your married, this girl obviously has feelings for you, and you completely crossed a line. you shouldn't have even agreed to sharing a hotel room at all.