"Memories & Mayhem"

Well whoda thunkit possible??

For the last few weeks my "stars" have foretold the return of a "lost love", an exotic person etc etc etc.... you know how they read.

Of course my mind was immediately overcome with all sorts of wonderful romantic possibilities featuring every kind of "hunky sex machine" that I could think of!!!

Luckily for me my "friends", as they all sat around the cafe table drinking bucket loads of frothy coffee, were all concerned for my personal safety (and sanity!). They brought me instantly "back to earth" with dire warnings of murder and mayhem if I even considered "getting it on" again with ex-husband no.1 (Matt the Rat) or ex-husband no.3 (Kenny the Conman). However.... they were prepared to consider a small window of opportunity if ex-husband no. 2 (the Black Knight) was to return to the scene of his many crimes!!! Bloody Hell!!!

So I put my romantic dreams back into their shoe box and went about my daily business (frothing coffee, hemming trousers and driving flaming buses)...... that is until last Wednesday!!!

Last Wednesday arvo I was beavering around in the sewing room stitching a curtain or two when The Boy came out back from the shop. He said "a grey haired old guy" was looking for me out the front. He told The Boy that he "knew me"..... Naturally The Boy raised an eyebrow and gave me one of "those" looks accompanied by a long suffering sighhh....... but I scooted out to the shop hoping that the "grey haired old guy" was a customer I had been expecting to pick up a quilt order from ages ago....

When I got out to the shop The Boy was right... a grey haired old guy was standing there, looking at me.... grinning like a cheshire cat... but I didn't have a clue who he was.... just that he wasn't the old guy with the quilt!

So I did the usual "shop" greeting and asked what he was looking for and he just grinned again and asked if I remembered the name Bill Meuffels at all..... For once my brain cells were working and I DID remember the name.... from over 40 years ago!!!! But I still did not see anything familiar in the "grey haired old fart" standing there grinning at me! I told him I remembered the name from a hell of a long time ago and he just laughed and said... well.... that's me!!! Fark me dead!!! You could have knocked me over with a feather!!

Bill was my absolutely first ever boyfriend (when I was 13 years old!!!)
How on God's earth did this man remember me??? let alone find me after all these years!! The last time I saw him was when I was 15 and he brought his new wife back to visit his old home.

Luckily I was looking my best for this 15 minute blast from the past meeting with a "long lost lover" from the coast (exotic location??), with my hair all scruffy in a mass of hot pink curls, no makeup, the mandatory baggy tracky daks, no bra, no shoes and a coffee stained shirt all covered in cotton trimmings!! I was also sporting my usual 10 earings and 20 rings but thankfully he could not see all the tattooes that were hiding under my baggy top!! (A lot has changed since he knew me at 13!!!)

If I had paid more attention to my "stars" instead of heeding my friends' threats of death and destruction I may have been better prepared (and at least brushed my hair and packed some cream into the wrinkles) for this unexpected meeting!!

Oh well... at least I got three or four huge hugs from this "long lost lover", and quite a few loooooong looks from The Boy, before he left. I did finally remember to introduce Bill to The Boy and pointed out that he should thank Bill for his existance because Bill introduced me to ex-husband no. 1 (father of The Boy and his siblings!)

And Yes.... The Boy had plenty of questions after the mystery visitor left!

So there ya go.... my stars were right..... an old lover from an exotic place did wander back into my life for a brief 15 minutes. But damn the timing.... he is bloody married again!! LOL