GUiLTy PLeAsURe...NPR

Recently I have become a "FAN" of NPR.

I have learned so much listening to it...LOL..

Actually part of the motivation to change my Blog colors and Font came from a show I listened to about effectiveness in mediums for electronic media. Spoke on various techniques on what has been "scientifically proven" to be more effective in retention and interest in fonts and colors used for electronic sites and books.

BUT, That was not what inspired my post today. It was actually a story I heard, very interesting story.

This Woman worked for a magazine as an editor. In this Magazine she saw a picture of an author, and she said when she saw his picture, "OMG that is my soul mate". So she wanted to very much meet him, and decided to write him a letter. In this Letter she made up a story about how they had previously met at an airport and spoke before, and that she was really interested in him and had seen his picture and wanted to know if He was the guy and possibly meet. Admittedly she felt embarrassed that she had written this letter and made up the story and after 3 months passed and she had not heard from him, she was actually relieved.

Relieved because, it was a little embarrassing to lie and do something so desperate. One day, while waiting for the Cable Guy to show up, who coincidentally enough was a couple of hours late, she was on the phone with Customer Service and they had told her that he was gonna call any minute to tell her when he was on his way. Just as they told her this, she received another call and clicked over, and the person on the phone said, "I am the guy". For a brief moment she thought this was the cable guy and immediately jumped in with an impatient tone, "where have you been". HE (who was not the cable guy, but the author she wrote the letter to) responded with, "I am so sorry, I have been busy..." . After a couple of minutes she realized that this was not the cable guy but that it was HIM.

Eventually, they made plans to meet. And eventually she met up with him. The entire time, her mind was tricking her, cause they were communicating and he kept bringing up interesting points about the time they had met in the airport, which she found strange, because she had made it all up.

When they did meet, she said he looked nothing like the guy from the picture. She immediately was no longer interested, her obsession and infatuation died in an instant. But, as they continued to converse, she found it odd, even annoying that he kept bringing up their meeting and bringing up things that happened that day when they met at the Airport, and she was irritated by the whole thing, because... It had never even happened. She wondered what kind of game was he playing and why was he messing with her.

Then, finally, she announced she had to go, he wanted a kiss and to see her again, and she said no and then admitted that he was not the guy. He insisted, then she fessed up, that he could not have been the guy and she could not have been the girl, since she had made it all up.

This didn't phase him as even though she was walking out, he insisted that it had happened and that he was the guy, flabbergasted, she left. All the time wondering, if he was playing a game or did he really believe that this Airport meeting had happened.

I found this story fascinating to say the least. And always find something interesting to hear about or learn about on National Public Radio. LOL... A sign of my impending Old age.

LOL.

Laters,

The NaKeD InDiaN