I keep him around for his enviable credit limit - and the fact that once he was set free to roam the savannah for easier, slinkier prey, he actually turned out not to be such a big beastly bastard after all. Even passes for human at times.
My ISO knows about my blog and though he does joke about leaving some skanky comments to tease me, he has promised not to look for it without my permission - although he wasn't very pleased by the fact that I've butchered and blackened his character mercilessly. I do tell him bits and pieces of my boring life every once in a while - including censored details about Big Bicep Barry and Charming Calvin - as he regales me with the far more prurient details of his life. And occasionally there are split seconds when I actually see why I dated the man.
ISO : Waitaminute. Would that be me on your Blue List?
Paul : Yeah. Hurts, doesn't it.
ISO : Hey, aren't you supposed to be over that?
Paul : What can I say? Residual bile.
ISO : Well the list sucks and you deserve better.
What can I say? I was stunned speechless.
And this time I bought him lunch. Such unwonted praise - no matter how untruthful it might be - certainly deserves a steak.
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People who've shared your life on such an intimate level can make very good friends. Failing that, they should disappear like, forever.
Your ISO sounds like a stellar soul, and a lot of (wicked) fun. It's good that you've kept him around. It says a lot about you too, that he's still so sweet to you. I'm sure it's not just for the occasional steak.
Residual bile lar! :oD
Yes, it does sound as though you get on better as friends now than you did as lovers. Not sure whether that's encouraging or depressing ... :o\
The man just can't keep it in his pants :p That's why Paul gotta cut him loose.
But I must confess... If I have someone like your ISO and be my ISO and if he is such a man whore who can bed and would bed just about anyone I would not be able to keep my hands off him even after the break up :pp
Papa need some sugar everynow and then
I try to stay friends with my ex's, after caring about them for such a long time I just can't pretend they don't exist.
i could never forget mine...
I have retained a cordial and with some, very close friendship with my ex's, having being together, they just become part and parcel of my life, knowing them for so long, and them me, we can basically share our problems and knowing also that we can't be together, for that is the reason we broke up...we remain this wonderful friends that we truly need in this homophobic world we live in (or country)
Of course they were some that I wished them hell and pray that the earth opens up and swallow them whole...but that's life I guess, we can't all be perfect :P
You deserve a good one, Paul! He will come!
I agree with ISO, you do deserve so much better!
So no chance in hell for me eh Unca Paul? :P
I'm with the majority on this one, most of my partner's and my best friends seem to be ex's (or at least former serious crushes) of mine. And my partner's cool with that, even at a dinner party when someone said to him "do you realize everyone in here has seen Will naked?" Yeah, like we needed to hear THAT over dessert.
If you care enough about them to want to date them, you're likely to care enough to remain friends. Unless, of course, they're the AntiChrist, as one young man from my past apparently was.
maybe for him "to me, you are perfect"
Sounds like you had a good foundation built here! Maybe it's good just to keep ISO as a friend and move on with your life..... True-it hurts for you but is he hurting though?
That's almost sweet of him. :D
Too bad he's ISO, but it's nice that you're still in contact with him. At least he doesn't *cough* butchered *cough* someone x)
Oh yeah, i gotta do speech thing that's 4 mins long. It's almost freaky that you posted something aboty speeches a while back.
Ah well... might as well just shoot me in the head right here.
Hey Squido...can't help remembering an article I read in the paper recently about having penetrating sex before a speech.... it improves public speaking.. u can find it out on this link http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=mg18925365.500 or http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/4646010.stm
hahaha...of course if you read the autobiography of JFK, u wld also realised that the late Prez need to have sex before speaking in public to calm himself..or else he'll end up with a severe migraine....hahaha.....so..hope this will help you and those out day that needs to speak to the public.. hehehe...
That's nice of him. Expecially since he's on that list himself. Hey, friends are always good, right?
Thanks, jay. He is a good soul, certainly not stellar but wicked fun is true.
We do get along better now, ru - as we did before anything happened. It is depressing actually :)
Pete, I got some sugar from him the Christmas before last.
True, cr, I don't know how people just ignore their exs.
quavadis, I'm sure we all go thru that wishing them in hell phase :) I was there too.
Wish he could come faster, ca va!
Holden, I don't think I could hold a candle to your flames :)
Will, that dinner party with all your exs... must have been excruciating, especially after a comment like that!
I know, pakcik. I think that line in Love Actually was so corny, so sentimental and yet.. so wonderful.
Keeping him as a friend, Ian and chas is right, it's worse to lose a friend sometimes.
Don't you hate speeches, squido.
Friends are wonderful, Daniel.
Paul
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