Since You Asked......

In response to questions as to what happened to Frank and lisa after they bumped into one another, in The Momentary Drama (below), I will try to describe the things that happened afterward.

Of course, in bumping into each other, they both blubbered and sputtered their apologies simultaneously, all the while they each made silly attempts to brush off the other's jacket. They just kept brushing each other off with their hands, as they exchanged small talk about the neighborhood. She lived 3 blocks South of the old Roosevelt Hotel. He lived 3 blocks North.

Each day that followed, they kept looking for the other coming from the opposite direction. The first week or so of this, was like a courtship ritual that can only be compared to a National Geographic documentary on strange bird behavior. They would see one another, and as they approached, they would appear to be deliberately dodging one another, making big obvious detours around one another. Then as they passed, they would turn and walk backwards for a few steps, and look back at each other. On one such occasion, Frank backed into a parking meter. On another occasion, Lisa, walking backward, tripped over the curb, and fell back onto the hood of a parked car.

Since it soon became apparent that this would continue to happen day after day, and they were finding it more and more difficult to avoid each other, their relationship began to change. Now, it seems they began deliberately bumping into each other. It was like a game of 'chicken'. Of course, neither would give in, so they collided. Then, they went back to the brushing each other off ritual, while engaging in small talk. It seems their paths crossed, or collided, always at the same place, beneath the glittering round yellow bulbs of the Roosevelt Hotel's marquee. The doorman at the hotel, seeing this same thing happen over and over, began inviting his friends to come by and watch Frank and Lisa crash into each other every morning. Soon, there was a daily crowd of a dozen or more people standing around in front of the hotel, looking up and down the street for a sign of Lisa or Frank. Well, Lisa and Frank appeared every day like clockwork, and crashed into one another again and again beneath the bright lights of the marquee, and they would be loudly applauded by the on-lookers. They would then brush each other off excessively, as the crowd of spectators stood by watching, nodding their heads, and sipping their coffees to go.

I will finish this odd story of this odd couple tomorrow, and will post it on Mything Links.

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