Next Meeting

Over time Stephanie would occasionally tell me some positive attributes of Brent's while we were visiting. Once she mentioned his ability to build things and how good he was at it. That tidbit stuck with me. Shortly before Christmas 07 I really wanted to put shelves up in Katie's room and get her room organized. Now my brother is a great builder but I felt guilty asking him to come over and spend time doing that for me. He is always so busy and lives about 30 minutes away with a total gas guzzler. So I called up Shandy and asked if I could get Brent's phone number hoping to get a quote from him to put shelves up. I honestly didn't think it could really cost that much. He agreed to come over and look at her room and give me a quote. Now I would be lying if I didn't say that part of me wondered if after spending time around him there might be a connection but mostly I really wanted the shelves. Well his quote was way too high for me. I just couldn't bring myself to pay that much for a couple of shelves. I couldn't justify paying that much to Brent and not to my brother so in the end I never had him do the work.

On the funny side of this moment. After we did start dating Brent told me that he really thought it was something set up by John to get us together and I wasn't really that sincere about the shelves. While he was at my house I was impressed by the research he did prior to coming over to try meet what I told him I was looking for. I also remember thinking he was kind of cute when he showed up. My favorite moment of the night though was before he left he walked into my living room and made a comment about the decorating I had done. He mentioned how his sister-in-law was into that type of... did he call it crap or junk, maybe he just said stuff? I do remember looking at him and saying well it is this decorating (insert which ever word he had used) that makes a house a home. Boy was he smooth. So Brent left and I had an underlying thought that he just totally tried to over charge me and wondered if I appear to have a great deal more money than I really do have.

On a side note, I still don't have the shelves up. I also found out after we started dating that he was unemployed when he got my call and could have really used the money. So when he left that time I was more annoyed than anything by how much he quoted me and disappointed that I wasn't going to get any shelves.