“And now the rest of the Story…”
(If you have not read part 1 of this epic story of Midwestern Love, click here to catch up)
Matt was awoken in his room by the ringing phone at midnight. On the line was Lisa form Ruby Tuesday. She was off from work and ready for a night on the town. She wanted to go out with Matt and show him a good time. Matt declined the offer saying he was tired! She then offered to talk to him about their plans for the next day in his hotel room. Again Matt declined.
Alan and I had breakfast with Matt the next morning before we left for the airport. When Matt told us of what happened the night before we were aghast! We clued Matt in as to what he missed. It was also important for Matt to know that married men need to live vicariously through their single friends, and he was letting us down!
We coached him on his upcoming date with Lisa and left for the airport. We did not hear anything else from Matt for the next two days.
When Matt would return to work we would get the rest of the story.
Since we had a day at work before Matt returned, Alan and I had plenty of time to work on this story and it at run through the office like wild fire.
Here is what Matt told me when he got back.
It seems Lisa was not a sweet, innocent, Heidi-like figure. She took Matt on her boyfriend’s boat for a long cruise around the lake. Her boyfriend was serving 16 months in prison for dealing narcotics. Lisa was happy to get stoned on the boat, with or without Matt partaking. She stripped down to a bikini, that was also a size too small, got wasted and hung out with Matt. It seems that Lisa was a bigger BS artist than Alan and I.
A better facsmile of Lisa
The story to this point could go one of two ways.
Just like the famous “Heidi football game”, the last plays would be the most important.
Matt demanded that they take the boast back to the dock and left Lisa, her bikini and her desires behind.
When Matt told me that story I told him the following:
“I understand, but you must not tell anyone what really happened. You have to tell them that the two of hooked up on the boat, that it was great, yada, yada, yada. You have a rep to build.”
He just could not tell a story of sexual escapades, committing a felony, with a gorgeous girl on a cabin cruiser in the middle of Lake Superior. No one would believe him.
We tried to help him. We failed.
