{"id":3453,"date":"2008-07-14T14:52:01","date_gmt":"2008-07-14T22:52:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=3453"},"modified":"2008-07-14T16:43:13","modified_gmt":"2008-07-15T00:43:13","slug":"driving-loving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=3453","title":{"rendered":"Driving &#038; Loving"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m brutal and impatient.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know how I manage to keep my license.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m way to quick to toot my horn and push my way to where I wanna go.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m a menace.<\/p>\n<p>I should be illegal.<\/p>\n<p>On rare occasions, I suppress my brutal urges.<\/p>\n<p>When I&#8217;m first dating a girl, I&#8217;m nice.<\/p>\n<p>But sometimes I can change during the course of one date.<\/p>\n<p>Case in point &#8212; 2002.<\/p>\n<p>We met at Stu and Lew&#8217;s Christmas party.<\/p>\n<p>She was an executive.<\/p>\n<p>I love powerful women.<\/p>\n<p>We had our first date at the Magic Carpet on Pico Blvd.<\/p>\n<p>She wasn&#8217;t as concerned about my past writing on &#8212;- but that I was too religious for her.<\/p>\n<p>I was Orthodox and she was Conservative.<\/p>\n<p>Lunch went well enough for us to go out again.<\/p>\n<p>We went to a movie in Santa Monica.<\/p>\n<p>On the drive there, I was very careful.<\/p>\n<p>Then I got us into an argument on abortion.<\/p>\n<p>She thought it should be legal and guilt-free. 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