Thursday, July 9, 2009

One of My Stories

When I was in my early twenties I moved to Washington DC and went to work for a national trade association. I was Director of Membership and a large part of my job consisted of traveling around the country to sign up new members, as well as going to a national trade show once a year in various cities. One year the convention was in Chicago. At night after all of the events of the day were over I went out with some of my friends to a popular piano bar. We were having a great time singing along with the piano player when I noticed a very good looking guy was staring at me and smiling. I asked one of my friends who he was and he informed me that he was the president of one the companies in our industry. Soon after that he came over and my friend introduced me to him. That was the beginning of one of the most exciting times of my life. He was single and had a company jet. One weekends he would fly to Washington and sometimes we would go to the islands, Florida, California, or Vegas. One weekend we went to Vegas where we stayed in the penthouse suite of Ceasars Palace. It was like a fairytale. We dressed black tie, went to the most exclusive restuarant, danced under a sparkle ball. Then after dinner we went to the casino where he taught me to play craps. We won $4000.00, which at the time was a great deal of money to me. Then we went to the shops and bought me all kinds of presents. Ah, to go back to those days. I wish

2 comments:

  1. Sooo, then what! Did you marry him and live happy ever after?!?!?

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  2. No, I did not marry him. It turned out he was divorced and already had three kids. He definately did not want any more kids and I definately wanted kids. So after dating for a year, we parted as friends. In fact he called me a few times after I was married.

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