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She was the Teacher

Without coming across as conceded the reality is you either love me or you hate me.  Clearly i have more lovers than haters, i'd go as far as to say that haters are jealous.  Joking aside i have a huge crew of people rooting for me and hoping for nothing but the best with a happily ever after.  Everyone has advice and wants to help.  I know its all coming from a good place and i actually enjoy hearing what they have to say.  Today i'm going to share with you about the time i went out with a good girlfriend who is my right hand girl and was convinced she'd be the best wing woman ever. (she was actually pretty good, and we'll go out again)
We picked our poison choosing Sullivans in downtown Naperville as our hunting grounds. We found ourselves cozy little seats at the bar leaving empty seat on either side.  Quickly behind me two gentleman sat down.  My girlfriend noticed them instantly and saw her notice them.  She then instructed me to turn around make eye contact, smile and the turn back around.  (i maybe a girl who gives the occasional resting bitch face) Totally not my thing.  I prefer a confident man that's not afraid to approach me (hows that working for ya... its not) So i took her advice and did as she told me.  Not long later a nice couple sat down next to her  and then two more gentleman (the one was a lost cause)  Within minutes the one guy interrupted our conversation saying "did you just say i look like mark walburg?" Uh... NO We should have just ignored him, but we didn't.  The more he spoke the more annoyed i got.  Then i realized his friend was VERY familiar.  Now, just a side note... i have an incredible memory.  I sat there trying to figure out how i knew him, then it came to me.  I had chatted with him years ago on a dating site, we never actually met but because of my memory i started to recall a ton of facts about this man.  I began to feed them to my friend and she repeated them making for a very funny conversation.  I then asked if they wanted to know how i knew all this information and told them.  The drunk friend was beside himself that his friend screwed that up.  He kept saying why didn't you go out.  i simply said... You didn't ask, i moved on.  Lets say he was pretty disappointed. 
Then out of the corner of my eye i saw a man walk in that again i knew.  This man introduced himself to me at a kids event asking if our kids could have a play date (they had gone to pre school together).  I said sure, we met at the park (i thought this was just a play date for the kids) he brought wine.  Ummm, Lord help me.  Needless to say a week later his girlfriend called me historical wanting to know who i was because she saw my number in his phone (she clearly facebook stalked me) I assured her that nothing was going on and sent her on her way.  He clearly recognized me last night and was with a women but couldn't stop trying to get me to notice him.  Ugh Creeper focus on the woman sitting in front of you!!!
If nothing else the evening was full of laughter and i did learn a thing or too, trust your gut!

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