Hence, why I’m now nervously waiting for you in a hotel room on a Tuesday afternoon. That message from you came out of the blue, our sporadic burst ...of messages since leading us back to here. We no longer need each other, but we most definitely want each other.A knock, a glimpse through a spyhole. We exchange a brief embrace and a kiss as the door closes and locks. Smiles. Privacy. Secrets. Bigger smiles. You drape your jacket over a chair as a whiff of aftershave catches your nose. Warm hands. So it's not too far to walk home afterwards.And it's the same side of the street.I don't even have to cross the road!Aspire to inspire before you expire.My wife and I had words, but I didn't get to use mine.Frustration is trying to find your glasses without your glasses.Blessed are those who can give without remembering and take without forgetting.The irony of life is that, by the time you're old enough to know your way around, you're not going anywhere.God made man before woman so as to give. That is ... before when you asked ... I was looking at ..at .. your umm ... I had the thought ... it's not like I really wanted to,but I had the thought .. it just popped into my mind... I imagined kissingyour leg... ummm, right on the beauty mark."Karen professionally responds, "How did you imagine I'd respond to youtelling me that? That you desire to kiss my pretty thigh right on mybeauty mark."There's that adjective again--her *pretty* thigh.I answered, "I thought you'd be mad at me." Mad. But now I had it hanging over my head and I didn't know when things were going to happen. It was not arousing, it was nerve wracking. So, I came into work on Tuesday, expecting the worst and all day, nothing. The only thing that did happen on Tuesday was that Melody came down and asked me to go to lunch with her. That was both good and bad. We had something in common although I am sure that neither one of us was enjoying it. But I told her yes and shortly before noon she came by my desk and we.