Your Freudian Slip Is Showing
As you all know, I’ve been keeping company with the attorney off and on over that past couple of months. This past weekend I helped him put up some shelves in his garage. I know that doesn’t sound like much of a date, but I just enjoy being around him. And I think he enjoys being around me.
Plus, we have been having a string of beautiful, warm, sunny days in East Tennessee the last week or so. He was in shorts, so it gave me a chance to oogle his legs. Next to the ass, I am a leg man (then chest). He runs several times a week, so he’s got really shapely legs and they are impossibly long. They go practically up to his neck. It’s interesting that he and I are similar in basic build (tall and lean), but his height is more in his legs and mine is more in my torso. (He also is taller and a bit more filled out than me, particularly in the chest. And neither of us has any hips or much ass to speak of. (Good thing he’s got that chest! 
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Anyway, we’re working along and talking and laughing. One of the things I like about him is that he likes to joke. So do I. But sometimes jokes don’t always come out the way you intended.
He was talking about cars he has been looking at. In fact, we went on a test drive of one a couple of weeks ago. The one I rode in and the others he is considering are all kind of in the luxury sports car category. So I made a joke about him going through a mid-life crisis. I topped it off with, “look at you with your expensive cars and a younger boyfriend.”
I couldn’t close my mouth fast enough to stop it. The bull was out of the pen.
He raised his eyebrows and looked at me. “So, you’re my boyfriend, huh?”
After all that talk last week about the boyfriend label, I guess it was in my subconscious. I stumble and stammered, trying to talk my way around it. But I just ended up tripping over my tongue as I tried to adjust my Freudian slip. Boy, did I put my foot in my mouth. The whole fourteen.
He just grinned. Grinned like it was his birthday. He’s got a dimple in his chin, and it’s funny to watch it spread sideways when he grins. He just grinned and went back to his work.
Nothing else was said about it the rest of the afternoon. I guess there was no need. Because still, it is what it is. And it’s nice.
March 14th, 2007 at 4:22 pm
Freudian slip and all, you’re still just too damn cute and loveable!
March 14th, 2007 at 6:23 pm
Yes, it is what it is. Nonetheless, He grinned because he knows and he’s ok with it. You say it’s nice cause you also know and you’re ok with it, on one level or another.
I’m grinning ’cause I’m just glad for you both.
March 14th, 2007 at 7:42 pm
Things have a way of sorting themselves out… Thats good stuff
March 14th, 2007 at 8:12 pm
Yeah, you’ve got a boyfriend. Let us know when it’s official.
March 14th, 2007 at 8:31 pm
You say the nicest things whenever you slip.
I think his smile said it all.
March 14th, 2007 at 8:46 pm
Aw shucks!
March 14th, 2007 at 10:59 pm
i have the biggest grin on my face right now.. from the ‘leg man’ all the way to ‘it is what it is’ my man, this makes me grin from ear to ear, for all the best reasons.. thank god for freud and his ideas…
March 15th, 2007 at 4:53 am
That’s SOOOOOOO romantic!
You great big fluffy thing you.
March 15th, 2007 at 5:10 am
WOO HOO… Tony and the Attorney sitting in a tree!
that’s so cute.
March 15th, 2007 at 7:01 am
I am grinning too. That is so sweet. You guys are boyfriends!!!
March 15th, 2007 at 8:35 am
I think sometimes what you really desire comes out in those little slips. I’m sure the attorney has been grinning to himself ever since. It WAS his birthday.
March 15th, 2007 at 11:15 am
someones got a boyfriend! im jealous!
March 15th, 2007 at 12:45 pm
Ok, I think that’s hot! Sounds like you guys are on the same wavelength. Good!
March 15th, 2007 at 8:09 pm
Aww how cute! I guess now you know he wants you like that
March 16th, 2007 at 6:28 am
whatta know. a sinkhole didn’t open up and swallow you.
….and don’t go making any dirty comments about my comment.
March 16th, 2007 at 11:39 am
I have this friend that called me up and asked me to lunch - she said “I’m really interested in this guy and I think he is interested in me, What should I do?” I told her to “just let it be”, if he was interested that way it would work itself out.
They are married now… and have babies… you’re on the right track
March 17th, 2007 at 5:04 pm
Maybe you were just kidding him about the “expensive cars and the younger boyfriend” remark”. He does not know. But he does know, you know he knows, and that is what is important.
I just feel sad for Jake.
March 20th, 2007 at 3:20 pm
Haven’t been following this for a while and just happened on this post. All I can say is - finally and congratulations!