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Good dinner - bad fix up
I took off work early to take him to the airport. I had also been invited to join my friends Christie and Dillon out to dinner at a new place in Overland Park to celebrate her birthday that night. It was an invitation that I decided to turn down for both budgetary reasons and because with all the other things planned for the weekend I wanted a little time at home first. At some point on most weekends I try to get myself and things together in preperation for the coming work week; house keeping shopping and the like. So I used this Friday as the evening to do just that. It ended up being a quiet time home alone getting things done.
Saturday dawned bright and early and I continued to try to finish up the chores I had set myself. I never did get the house completely back together again after the water problems so I wanted to get more of that done. My plans were to finish that around five then go over to David's to spend the evening and night so we could get an early start on taking some photos of him Sunday at and around the Nelson. He called to ask if I minded changing plans. A friend of ours and the owner of the Company I used to work for had set up two guys, a friend of her's and one of David's on a blind/ double date. She didn't have a date for the evening and thought that by having others there it would ease things a bit. She had invited David to join them and when she heard he had plans to spend the evening with me she told him to invite me. We haven't talked much since I started working for the university and she thought it would be a good time for we two to catch up.
I had my doubts, but told David sure we could change our plans to join them, so we went down to a Ti restaurant on SouthWest Blvd. for dinner. Southwest Blvd. is well known here in town for it's large selection of Mexican restaurants so I was surprised to hear that there was a Ti restaurant there. There is an area on 39th street next to State Line Road that would have been more fitting. There is an eclectic mix of restaurants in an about six block area that it would have better fit in at. But we went there with me wondering how it would be.
We got there and met up with the others. Shirley was the same as I remembered her. She is and carries herself with the air and style of a society woman but can be very down to earth and friendly. I first met her when I came up to be David's best man at his wedding to Jon-Michael about ten years ago. She was the minister who officiated at the wedding and I noticed at the reception that she was standing alone with no one talking to her as everyone else mingled. Since I knew most everyone there and she looked, I don't know, not lonely but sort of alone and aloof I decided to go over to talk to her. We ended up hitting it off fairly well. In the course of the conversation I told her I was interested in moving to KC but didn't want to do so unless I had a job. She told me to come with her and meet her daughter, who was also at the reception, and who was the manager of the company that she and her husband owned. She thought there might be a position there for me. While talking with her daughter Dian I was offered the position of Finance Manager. Well be mid winter I was moved to KC, living w/ David and Jon-Michael and working for the company. So I have fond memories of her.
The two guys who were the object of the impromptu dinner party were both very nice but seemed very different and didn't hit it off in more than a mildly friendly way. The sitting arangement didn't help any. They were positioned so that it was easier to talk to the people who they already knew best instead of each other. They sat side by side and each had their friend across from them. The one who was friends with David sat across from him and Shirley's friend across from her.
