File under: How stupid do you think I am????

You guys will love this...

So my now ex-girlfriend (aka The Twit) and I were going to go to Florida together in July and stay with her uncle. He got the tickets at least a month ago. I hadn't actually paid for my ticket yet, but I was going to. In the last few weeks, I've seen the end coming and didn't know what to do about the Florida trip. I didn't want to go with her anymore, but there was a ticket for me, that *I* hadn't actually paid anyone back for yet, but it had been paid for. It resulted in a potentially awkward situation.

And then The Twit and I broke up on Sunday night. She proceeds to tell me this wild story about how my ticket got lost. Supposedly the uncle's girlfriend was a travel agent and had procured the tickets. But then they got in a fight (and possibly broke up--that I'm not sure of). To be mean, she "lost" my ticket. Why only mine? Because if she'd "lost" The Twit's ticket, then she'd get in trouble. Because The Twit's uncle has connections and he could have gotten her in big trouble.

Yeah. Right. She "lost" one ticket and only one ticket? And in any case, if it had already been paid for, there would be a printout from the agency showing the tickets prices, the arrival and departure information for the flights. You can't just lose a ticket like that. I mean, really how stupid does she think I am????

I was nice and I went along with it though. After all, I didn't want to go and now I don't have to pay for a ticket I won't use. The Twit's, in effect, paying $250-ish to make sure there are no strings between us. And when I do feel guilty, since I know she's paying for the unused ticket, I just think of Dan...the guy she was cheating on me with.

Yup, cheating. What's possibly even more amusing is that I've heard 3 or 4 different stories about how she knows him. I thought she originally said he was an old friend from Florida. Then a friend at work tells me he's a family friend from Waltham. Another friend/co-worker heard he was her fiancée. (That one, I know isn't true.) But then the best one is from the Co-Manager. About a month ago, she was working at Natural Wonders with The Twit and a guy came in. At some point, he went over to The Twit, asked her what her name was, and then asked if he'd be "stepping on anyone's toes" if he asked her out for a drink. Well, she didn't say a word about me to him. The Co-Manager swears this is the same guy as Dan, but when she casually asked The Twit, she said he wasn't. So at the very least, she was going out for drinks with other people and at the least, leading them on about her relationship-status.

Believe it or not, I am actually thrilled that we broke up. In fact, I had to fight from jumping up and down with glee when she asked if we could "go back to being just friends". Of course, last night, she was acting all touchy-feely. And if I'm not drinking, them I'm not the touchy-feely type for the most part. But numerous times, she scratch my back like she used to. And at one point after I said how tired I was, she said she had been planning to ask me if I wanted to go get a drink after we closed the store for the night. Then Dan showed up and she invited me again. Ha! Like I'm going to go drinking with you and the guy you were cheating on me with???? Ha! again. I really wanted to pull her aside and say, excuse me, but you don't get to touch me anymore.

Well, back to work now...