Next day

The next day we meet up where we were volunteering. After doing some volunteer work, we left to go to lunch together and talk. I had to make one stop at a gallery where they were setting up my work for a show that was starting in a couple of days. They had some questions about the set up so I asked him if it was okay if we stopped there. He was excited to see my art, so we went. He walked around looking at the art while I was taking care of questions with the gallery people. I had to take a couple of photos of some of the paintings.

As I was doing that and he was walking with me, we were talking about the art, when he realizes that one of the paintings is a little crooked. As he reached forward to straighten the painting, I stepped back and took a photo of that cute tush of his. He turned around and said, "What are you doing?" I tried to look innocent and said, "Huh, what, I didn't do anything." He replied smiling because he knew I wouldn't be able to get out of it, "I heard the camera when you took the picture." I gave that deer in the headlight look, "You can hear the camera taking a picture? It makes a noise?" I asked completely shocked and a little blushed that I had been caught. "Yeah.", he says smiling, "The camera makes a sound when you take a picture. Bet you didn't know that huh?" Well I do now! I just laughed and said, "Oh look, that painting is a little crooked too."

After we had a small casual lunch we went to a local lounge and talked and talked and talked. After about an hour or so of us talking and getting to know each other better, he says, "You remind me so much of my ex-girlfriend." My face froze and the recorder in my brain just kept replaying the words, "You remind me so much of my ex-girlfriend." "You remind me so much of my ex-girlfriend." "You remind me so much of my ex-girlfriend." "You remind me so much of my ex-girlfriend." "You remind me so much of my ex-girlfriend."

After what seemed like hours but was more likely seconds, I finally blinked my eyes, closed my gaping mouth and asked, "What?" He replied, "I was just saying that you remind me of my ex-girlfriend. You have some of the same traits as her." Again my face froze in what I am sure was a very unflattering look. "What does that mean, I remind you of your ex-girlfriend?" Then every single one of my female insecurities flashes through my brain, across my eyes, flew around the room then back into my brain to the recorder where it continued to play the words again, "You remind me so much of my ex-girlfriend." "You remind me so much of my ex-girlfriend." "You remind me so much of my ex-girlfriend." He realizes that it really didn't come out well. No adorable face or cute ass is gonna get you out of this one. "I mean, the good traits, things that I liked about her.", he was trying to talk around that big foot in his mouth. "You have a lot of energy and are really interesting to talk to and so was she." I came back with just as a ridiculous question, Soooo, talking to me and being around me makes you think of your ex-girlfriend?" Shaking his head and putting it down he says, "No, I was just saying there are similarities. But they are good things." Okay, so I asked the obvious, "Why is she your ex then, why did you guys break up?" "Because she cheated on me."

Then he went on about how she cheated on him with someone that wasn't as good looking as him, that he worked out more than this other guy, and he had a better body, and blah blah blah. Okay, I see his pain. But still it is weird to have some one say to you, "You remind me so much of my ex-girlfriend." That stopped him from getting a good night kiss. We spent the day together but talking is where it stayed.

"You remind me so much of my ex-girlfriend." Wow, that was brutal. I understand he liked her a lot and maybe that's good I have the traits he likes but he really should have phrased that better.