Just A Coincidence? Probably...

Have you ever be in a new town or even just traveling and thought you saw someone you knew? Then you realize as you catch another glimpse that it's not the person you thought it was at all. This happened to me on the way home the other night but it was the person I thought it was.

Before I moved to Vail 4 years ago, I was kinda dating this guy we'll call "Tad". We dated for about 8 months and we were really good friends and had really good chemistry. He was a golf pro too and we worked for the same golf course at Disney. He actually convinced me to move out here because he said I would love it. He was originally from Colorado Springs and he said I would love the mountains. Well, he was right but that move took me miles away from him. Tad and I tried to keep things going but we knew it wasn't ever going to work. He wasn't moving back to Colorado and I was staying out here for a while. So we broke up. No hard feelings just sad. He showed me what I really wanted in a guy but I wasn't ready to get married (not that that ever came up). I went back to Florida two years ago and saw him but that was it. After that, we never talked again. I heard through the grapevine that he married a chic right after that and that was it. No wonder he never responded to emails I wrote him.

So I'm in the shuttle coming back from Denver and we have to make several stops in the Vail Valley. It's about nine o'clock at night and we have to go up to the Ritz Carlton in Bachelor Gulch to drop off a couple staying there for a convention. As we pulled past the guard shack, the guy waving us on....WAS TAD! Are you kidding me? I recognized him immediately but had no idea he was in Colorado! What was he doing here? I'm in shock at this point, all the old feelings come rushing back but I have to stop myself. "He's married, Jennifer, he's married." But I had to talk to him. I told the shuttle driver my story as we drove back down and he was more than happy to sit and wait while I chatted with Tad. So I get out of the shuttle, peek in the shack and he's not there! All of a sudden I hear, "Hey, dipshit" (one of those cute pet names). He's sitting in the SUV we pulled up behind. Well, to make long story a little shorter, he let me know within the first minute we were talking that he was married (damnit) but it was so good to talk to him. He looked great. Apparently, he moved here in November and he was working for Bachelor Gulch security. His wife works in F/B for the hotel and he's finishing the Denver Police Academy.

WOW! Sometimes I wonder why things like that happen. I don't think if I would have seen him 6 months ago or even a year ago, if I could have taken it. But now, I don't know, it wasn't too bad. I still think about him alot and will always classify him as "the one that got away". Probably just a coincidence that I saw him...probably.