May 5, 2009

  • An update to the "confidential" letter:

    A mutual friend spoke to the guy who wrote the letter, and the guy was mortified. He said he didn't realise that he would upset Mom, and he felt terrible about it. He said he didn't know what possessed him to write that second paragraph, and he would write an apology letter and then never approach my mother again unless she approached him first.

    It turns out that there were three occasions when my mom made jokes to him about being available. Had she done it only once, he would have ignored it, but three times in a row that he saw her she made the same comment, so he interpreted that as interest. My mother just doesn't have a clue that she can't keep making jokes like that!