Dearest Penni; Being you have captured a part of my heart I'll risk sharing with you a few of the nicer moments in my rather dull life.
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Oky Dok ?
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Yesterday Jim in the computer room with his mind full of thoughts
about Silicon Investor, the intercom announced that his wife was home.
On this particular day, he was deeper in his own world than usual
as Charlottes' voice floated out of the speaker "I'm home" ;
it was kind of sing song with an up note on the end of "home",
then followed quickly were three more words, they had a musical
quality like three soft chimes going off he heard "I love You"
He tried to keep his mind were it was, as he reached for the
intercom button pushed it and gave out a matter of fact quick
"OKy Dok"
....In about a second the intercom came back, and he heard a soft
slightly surprised voice with a sort of asking tone, "OKy Dok...
is that all I get."! there was also a slightly demanding ring on the
end of "is that all I get"; o-shit he thought, I just goofed.
Jim dropped every thing and got up to go face the music,
and defuse any damage from his off handed reply to her testimony
of love, knowing he could obtain forgiveness if he made the prompt
showing of a mournful face.
As he tuned into the hall towards the kitchen he could see
Charlotte standing there, she had heard him coming and
was putting on a real smug " is that all I get look" with hands
placed on her wide hips. He approached hanging his head low, and
peeping at her out of the top of his eyes he did his best to
offer a pleading forgive me I goofed up look, and muttered a
humble "I sorry" putting on his best little boy ashamed style.
Charlotte was smiling but chastised him some more
with a motherly "YOU better hang your head " .
By now he had reached her and was letting his hung head sink humbly
to nuzzle into her soft bosom. Then he felt blood rushing to his
face and he knew his face was turning red, suddenly he pulled back
so she could see his red face and he announced with a tinge of pride
" I'm blushing "!
Charlotte upon seeing his embarrassed red face began grinning with
the pride of a animal trainer who had just subdued a roaring Lion,
the picture of the entire episode came home to them both at just about
the same moment, he really was blushing quite profusely yet proud to be able to, and they both broke out laughing at the same time.
As they looked at one another laughing, each reinforced the others
glee and it just made them laugh even harder. After a minute or so Jim
had a frightening thought that he might not be able to stop before he
laughed so hard and long as to kill himself.
Charlotte managed to obtain some composure first, and
slowly the laughter died down to heavy chuckles, and then big
glowing smiles, with little intermittent giggles.
"Well you see my Oky DOK wasn't so bad after all" he said.
Charlotte who happened to remember the movie the Ghost, and made a
connection, " that was sort of like the "ditto" in Ghost".
He smiled "can I sign my future notes with Oky Dok, instead of love,
we will have our own special code" he asked, she returned a
special smile that said it would be cute.
Jim thought,if this isn't love it sure is crazy enough
to be.
Charlotte went into the living room and parked herself on the couch, and picked up a TV guide. Jim standing in the doorway looked at her, shifted his weight enough for the motion to get her attention, then he gave her a big smile and blew a small kiss across the room. With her eyes and a returning smile she acknowledged the gesture, and floated a kiss back.
Then he turned and started back to his computer
room, thinking "I sure got a lot of mileage out of that goof up, OKy DOK, hopelessly hook on getting attention, Jim the 60 year old failure at life, went and sat back down in his computer chair, and started day dreaming about being a writer or some body important, and wondered about how he had blushed so dam good, smiling inside as he thought of her chime sounding "I love YOU" and his flat "Oky Dok.", man that was worse than "ditto"..
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P.S.
Lets don't cancel Valentine's day this year. But I do need a new
idea.
My wife works at a Girl Scout office ( we both have green
blood ) Last year I got away with sneaking in before she got
there, and put up about a dozen 8x11 Valentien type posters declaring
my love for her, from the gate , in the parking lot, and leading
to the entrance. Inside they let me wrap her desk and chair with
tissue and hang some balloons on her computer, it made me feel
like I was a kid again..I will have a hard time topping that this year, do you have any ideas ?
Trusting in you
Jim
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