In order to find true love, I turned to a dating site and I got some of the sweetest letters I have ever received and promises that could not possibly be fulfilled. Then just before I offered marriage Padro has to come in and inform me that the one on the other end was probably a gay Chinamen and the lady was artificial intelligence. Never took such a cold shower in my life. Those sites are man managed and they have nothing else to do but look for old fools, he says. Having been raised down here in the Southern hemisphere I donβt think he ever heard a back hills truck driver curse before. Heβs been helping me with my Spanish and I gave him a real quick lesson on etiquette from the truck drivers school. Not really but it could have been he pushed the load uphill quite a ways.
All good things come to an end but I can rewrite that and say only temporarily. My stay here in Colombia was or is good for 90 days and they donβt give a get out of jail card for free with us tourist. So, I have been forced to go back to Costa Rica and see my friends and may get to visit my wedding Ring. If you donβt understand that you have not missed anything because I donβt either. Joss has spoken to me lately so that is an improvement over sending flowers here in Colombia. Maybe I should have sent them to the Chinaman what do you think? What a doll that woman was 65 and according to the look of her picture she couldnβt have been far past twenty. Some people hold their age better than others I told Pedro.
I will be gone for a week but I promise not to drink more than ten days. No cigars and certainly no wild women. Only ones I get to see anymore are the gummers and they like me turn in before the chickens. Makes me think of why we donβt go out on New Years anymore. Because without teeth you canβt blow those horns. I ask a lady friend the other day if she was getting any and she said, every time the toast pops up I get it. Canβt remember if that was an honest answer or not if fact I wonder who that woman was. Next time I see her I will ask her if when she gets it if it is buttered. Before I go I can tell you why its easier to diet after eighty. It takes several days to remember where you left your teeth.
A Messenger,
Verl K.
Verl,
I donβt know if it was one of those supreme beings often mentioned in the lodges, but sometimes I feel my father βwho was Grand Master of the lodge here in Cartagenaβ sent me as one of those bishops on the chessboard. And with Emanuel by my side, spear in hand, I try to make sure the arrows never reach your heart.
Your writing made me smile, because between irony and anecdotes you remind us that life never stops testing us, even in the least expected placesβlike those dating sites that seem more like a battlefield than a garden of love.
What matters, brother, is that after every βcold showerβ comes the clarity to keep moving forward, with humor and without losing direction. And on that path, you know you can always count on me.
A strong embrace from Cartagena,
Pedro