Half-way There
Because I live in fear that Amy will show up at the resort and demand that post yet again, here I am, posting yet again.
So Bruce and I have this game, mostly I have this game, wherein we give names and attributes to couples who are eating at the same restaurant as we. The first time I played this with Bruce we were at THE best sushi restaurant in the bay area. The couple next to us ate about 5 plates that were built around salmon and cream cheese. I named them Gina and Billy. They were from Iowa and they just moved to California. They were going to show everyone back home that they were living life, I mean, come on, here they were eating SUSHI.
The thing about Gina and Billy is that I totally get it. They were somewhere different and this was their opportunity to finally not be what everyone else had been. Unfortunately for our lovely couple from Iowa, I told Bruce the rest of their story. You see money goes fast in the big city and while Billy has his degree and Gina worked at her father’s store for 8 years, jobs just aren’t that easy to come by. Gina solves the problem by finding a job stripping and Billy lets himself believe her stories about cleaning houses being really profitable here.
Of course this works for a while but one day Gina gets tired of paying all the bills and Billy gets tired of not being the man. Billy figures it if his girl is stripping she’s probably doing other things to make money and it’s the other things that are just killing him every time he looks at her. It was really only a matter of time for the day to come when Gina came home to find Billy’s clothes gone.
Not leaving a note was totally Billy’s style anyway and Gina knew there was only one place in the world that Billy would go. The folks back in Iowa weren’t surprised when Billy came back and worked his daddy’s farm. They weren’t even surprised when Billy came back alone. What surprised everyone was how much being in California changed Billy, I mean all he could talk about was about how much he loved sushi.
Gina and Billy are not so different from so many people. If only they had bothered to try something beyond just the salmon.