Miss Directions

Dear Karie,

Maybe it had something to do with you having a surname that reminds me of my favorite lever action rifle. Maybe it was those faces you make that defy explanation. Or maybe it was just plain old “cute girl” I wanted to FB stalk. In either case you were one of my first completely online friends.

We tried to meet up once as you may recall and thanks to some shoddy directions, and even shoddier clarification of those directions from me, it never happened. In some ways I am kind of glad for that, because if we had met who knows if we would still be talking now.

You in my opinion really do put yourself out there on the FB. A lot of people really go to extreme lengths to monitor what they say online for fear of having people give them shit about it. To my knowledge you post directly from the heart about your life. Thanks to this, I sometimes have the feeling I have been around you for years in a far more personal manner than a lot of folks who sit next to me day-to-day.

I have followed with interest your employment woes and triumphs, your semi-personal rants, and as always your ups and downs in the dating arena. One of the best things about this lately is that you seem to be elated with your current fella, and he seems like a wonderful guy, which obviously you deserve if not only because you are a wonderful person, but because it about fucking time.

I have quite a few friends on FB that are far away, or otherwise unreachable, and sometimes it bothers me how much I would like to see them. If I could just get past my obvious social ineptitude I could probably make those issues go away, but I guess I have just been taking baby steps towards that.

In either case I know we have a few methods to keep in contact already, and if for some reason you don’t know what those contacts are, let me know and I will send them to you immediately. Although I may not be privy to your day to day activities after the unfriending, maybe (one hopes) it will make me get off my ass and come see you in your own town like a real life grown up would do.

I won’t belabor the point, obviously I have a soft spot for you in the old ticker, so just maybe keep me in mind every now and again and that would be awesome.

Today was a great day, but tomorrow our FBfriendship will end,

Curt