AUTHOR: tbooty DATE: 11/24/2004 10:38:00 AM ----- BODY: ok. so yesterday i was not so sure that i should give the fireman another chance. i was mad/a little hurt to think that he'd ignored me while online and that he hadn't called/emailed to let me know he couldn't make it on monday nite (even though it WAS only a tentative "date"). well i found out some interesting information yesterday. before i go into it i KNOW that i possibly could have been misled. however, i don't think that i was. you be the judges. as you know, i'm on yahoo messenger every day at work. and my messenger list is up all day, so i can see who's online and who isn't. that being said, i saw the fireman was "online" and sent him an im. i got a "hi. this isn't the fireman. this is a friend of his. he'll be back in about 30 minutes." ok. i know people do this. we started chatting a little and ended up "talking" for 3 hours. he was telling me stuff about the fireman. he told me that the fireman has been talking about me. that he (the fireman) was worried that his work schedule and the traveling he does would screw up his chances to "pursue" me. i found this all very interesting and helpful. granted, i know that it COULD have been the fireman himself telling me all this. and of course there is not a way that i can 100% know if it was the fireman or if it was the best friend. gut feeling? it was the friend. we'll see. after we were done talking the friend signed off. about an hour later the fireman's id popped back up as being online. this time it was the fireman. we talked for a little bit. he apologized about monday nite. told me that his friend had been the one online that was ignoring me. (the friend told me the same thing.) we made actual PLANS to meet up on friday nite. so i have a date. with the fireman. and i'm freaking a little. i mean, what if the friend repeated things that i told him? it wasn't anything that i don't want the fireman to know, but maybe things i don't want him to know just yet. the friend told me that we'd have to keep the conversation between the two of us as the fireman would "shit bricks if he knew i was telling you this stuff". he told me "don't break his heart". he confirmed some things that the fireman told me. (as much as they can be "confirmed" for me, i know.) the question i have, i guess, is what if i find out that it really WAS the fireman i was talking to the whole time and NOT the friend? do i get mad? do i find it funny that he was willing to go to that length to feed me "inside" information about himself? i just don't know. what do you guys think? --------