Remember that Dave bloke?
Well, I was just thinking if I had ever known a female equivalent; and although I couldn’t really think of one, I started thinking about other ‘types’ I have known, and I remembered Kim.
Kim was also called Kim, and I got to know her at college and then we worked together for a while, when I had a real job.
Kim was mid height, 5’5; had mid brown mousey blonde hair, was thin and had very big eyes; one might almost say huge eyes, in a very small heart shaped face; she kind of reminded me of E.T in blue jeans.
She wasn’t ugly, she was really quite pretty, but she wasn’t, you know, stunning. She was a nice, pleasant person, but she wasn’t that funny, or witty, or passionate; she was, I felt, sort of a cup of tea with no sugar, rather than black coffee or hot chocolate, if you see what I mean.
But everywhere we went, men fell at her feet. At college, a (very brief) ex-boy friend of mine went do-lally over her (No jealousy here I promise, we were very good friends and I dumped him) – he even sneaked into college at 6 am to cover her desk in balloons and flowers on Valentines day, so he go get out and ‘come in’ later, trying to throw suspicion off himself. Nothing ever happened between them, she was going out with a Greek green grocer; but he made himself quite moon sick over her.
After college, she met one of my old friends – who was always the ‘big man’ locally, heart throb and lead singer of local band, who could have had any girl we wanted (not me, I was wise to his charms, dear reader!) – anyway, he then fell for her and spent months writing songs about her. She was still going out with the Greek grocer, so again, nothing happened.
At our teaching job, she caught the eye of the large, red headed geography teacher, who, for her benefit, lost weight and got fit, and mooned after her as well.
She married the Greek grocer.
Is that what men really want then, a nice cup of tea?
PS – when the first baby was born, bright ginger!
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I must away. I really have work to do today.
Or it did. Not sure now; I've been away too long.
When I was at school- all the boys fancied- no not fancied, fell in love with my best mate, Kim* (not her real name). Now my Kim had a complex about her looks- she wasn't chocolate box pretty and she was only 5'3". She always wanted to loose a little weight but I think that was mainly because her 5'8" older sister was as skinny as a rake- but with big boobs. Oh yeah- and she was in a band. Wouldn't you just hate to have such a cool sister?
But Kim was and is the happiest person I know. Her laugh is infectious- she has a real sense of fun and is the most compasionate person I've ever met and the lads at school adored her. She eventually married one of the guys from school for whom she harboured a crush for the 5 years at secondry. He's a real catch too. He plucked up the courage to ask her out 4 years after leaving school and by then she'd gained enough confidence to say yes.
I suppose I was envious of her at school- though I never begrudged the attention she brought (it was nice to bask in her popularity a little).
I don't know what drink would describe her..maybe something sparkling coz she's so bubbly.
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