Monday, February 28, 2011

yet again

Eight o’clock on a cold Monday morning at the end of February.  I should already be dressed, getting in the car, heading towards the office.  Instead I’m still sitting at my computer in panties and a tee shirt, compulsively re-reading the few bleak lines of text that represent my latest romantic abortion.

“You deserved better than that and I’m sorry,” he writes.  He’s at least the fourth boy who’s said this to me in recent memory.  Almost word-for-word, in fact.

And yes, I do bloody well deserve better than that.  Any girl does.  So at what point does everyone stop with these tired apologies, and just start behaving themselves in the first place?