When you decide to do a “low key” New Year’s is it by choice or because you don’t have a better offer? I pondered this as I rode to meet AQM at one of our local watering holes for a “low key” evening. (Our choice of course.) We toasted goodbye to a year that seemed to kick everyone’s ass emotionally and economically and focused on making 2010 suck less. It certainly got off to a better start. Enter extremely attractive man. With a sense of humor. And … um … well … everything.
“So. I did the math,” the Negotiator said. “You are two single girls. We are two single guys. And I certainly don’t want to kiss him at midnight.”
I pretended to consider the options.
“Well, I don’t really want to see you two kiss. You are welcome to join our table. But go back. Mull it over. Then we’ll see.”
And join us they did. And there went our low key evening. By choice. And as midnight struck and failed romances of 2009 were left behind, it was kind of nice to have a someone new to lean into.