American adventures to come

This is a perfect example of me attracting yet again another complication in my life. Just a few days ago I added an old work colleague to my Face Book friend list. He is someone that was more of an acquaintance, I worked directly with him a few times when I was having to rescue their store from the bottomless pit that is failed audit. The first time we met, the store manager had gone AWOL and he was left in charge. I turned up in store unannounced and as a new face to him. That week I learnt a lot about him… He enjoyed being a manager, ordering everyone around and generally sitting back being a slob! I seem to remember him playing football in the back office whilst I was left to complete the closing down routine. Very responsible guy!
He emailed me a couple of days ago to say congratulations on having gotten married. You see, he moved back to the states 2 years ago when his visa expired. I explained to him that the marriage had broken down due to Dale changing massively but didn’t go into any details. All day we were emailing when he suddenly invited me over to the states to stay with him for a week or two. Which obviously, the opportunity of a cheap holiday was not one to be missed and I gladly accepted his offer for next year.
He asked me if I would need to ask permission from my husband to go and stay with a big black American which I gladly replied “I don’t need permission from anyone, I am my own person, plus the divorce begins in a couple of months. Would your wife be aware of me staying?”
He went on to explain he has a wife and it is often easier to ask forgiveness than it is to ask for permission. This got my cogs turning and wondering why he would need to ask forgiveness, and then it twigged, all through our conversation, he had been flirting and I had been playing straight into his hands right up to the point where I was explaining about my double jointed-ness and how I need to work really hard as I missed the fun I used to have with it!
How could I have been so stupid?! I knew that he had a wife and I still couldn’t resist talking about my old party trick of being uber-double jointed in arms and legs. Idiot! Did he think that I was coming over because I wanted a shag? Perhaps he, like Lou, thought I’d be up for a threesome. Perhaps my cheap holiday might not be such a good idea!
Ignoring that last conversation I began planning my American adventure, I would fly to Virginia and stay for a week with the American Manager, then hire a car and do a road trip travelling down south to New York over a couple of days. I would stop off at New York and stay with an old school friend. I grew up with him in a small village and we were best of friends, however the usual thing happened, when we got into secondary school, we grew apart. We would still talk, but no where near on the same level. It would be good to catch up with him. Following New York, I would get back on the road and continue South to Florida, where we have some family friends who run a restaurant. Fingers crossed they would put me up for a few days so I could enjoy the beach bum lifestyle!
Only time will tell, and if my bank balance will allow following my Malaysian excursion planned for later this year! And who knows, what happens stateside, stays stateside (and on my blog of course!).