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peterbllee
Mar 1, 2023

This post is the continuation of Cowboy Afraid Of Horses.

What happened on the week after my note was passed to you,  Kit Oi?

I sat at the last row of the class so that there would be no one sitting behind me as you  walk out from the class. 

You did not say anything  but had a faint smile on your face. I did not know how to interpret that smile.

I hoped that it was an encouraging smile. But I feared that it was a sneer.

My heart and my mind told me that you were not the kind of person to sneer. If you did not want to be friends with me, you would kindly and politely  say so.

But my insecurity and mega inferiority complex would not allow me to believe that.

In a way I was glad that you did not say anything. If you had spoken to me what Lobo said in the song below could have literally  happened. "When I saw you standing there, I 'bout fell off my chair.  When you moved your mouth to speak, I felt my blood  go to my feet"

I would have been so afraid of what you will say.

How I wish that your  smile was clearer. If only it spelled one word, "Hi" That would be enough  to have me on cloud nine.

The last verse of Lobo's song says,"Now it took time for me to know what you tried so not to show"

More than 47 years since I passed the note to you, I still do not know for sure how to interpret your faint smile.  It is as enigmatic to me as the "smile" on Mona Lisa face (the painting by Leonardo Da Vinci).

Was Mona Lisa really smiling and what was she thinking in the painting?

What were you thinking as you walked  past me in 1975?

Kit Oi, I hope that I can find out the answer. 🙏

If anyone can ģet this message into the hands of Dr Kit Oi, Chung who runs Vauxhall Health Centre in Liverpool, UK, I will be so happy.

She is someone I had always respected and still respect.

It would make me very happy if we could be platonic friends.