Colorado Springs, CO – July 24, 1987… a Saturday.

If you were in The Springs bar scene at the time this story should make sense.

I was at the bar at a night club talking to my favorite bartender. He actually won the Phil Collins look-a-like contest.  I think I paid for some of his children’s college tuition.  We were have a great conversation and talking about how the night was going to go. It was 8.05pm, so there wasn’t a lot of traffic in the club but, if you remember, they used to put free food out on a buffet – finger food only – but it would draw a crowd early and then the drinking and dancing would start.

As we are having the conversations, I felt a touch on my right arm that completely change my physiology – completely. I had no idea what was going to happen next but when this stunning lady asked me what time it was, my only thought was… and I did express it out loud…. “Wow, that’s not a very good pickup line”. Now, I had on the clothes they had on the mannequin so I thought I looked pretty decent – more Don Johnson from Miami Vice at the time (now you should be getting the full picture…). As a rebuttal from this angel sent to me – she said “Well, you’re pretty full of yourself” and at that point I told her it was 8.05pm. She said she just got out of a movie and was waiting for some people to show up.

So, funny how the universe works, turns out the people she was waiting for were people I knew as well! So our very first night together we danced all night and once the nightclub closed we sat in the car until about 4am.

From there, she wouldn’t give me her number, so I gave her mine and we parted ways.