the peaceful habor

John is old and bald. The rest of his hair is long.
Same age with K, But John is much stronger as he has working in construction for decades. There would be a lot of women like this kind of muscle man.
Totally not my type.
He said he was 45 year old. Men always lie about their age and hair.
“When I was teenager, my dad owned all these properties, from here to the other corner”. (oh my god, this guy destroyed all his father’s life career”).
“When I was 20 year old, I used to have 200 people work for me”. “Where are they now?”. “I filed for bankruptcy after 2 years” (oh my god, please don’t talk about it in that show off voice. I think I feel bad for his mother, who had to see the boy lost everything she and her husband got after all those years)
“I will have more children with you if you want kids. My granddaughter is autistic also. I know and understand about autism”
Ah, it’s a good point.
“I’m selling my boat to save my business. I own a restaurant down there. Last winter was so bad. I haven’t pay rent for 6 months and the landlord took me to court”
“My mom already helped me to pay utility bills. I haven’t paid anything for 6 months. I hope I can sell the boat as soon as I can” (oh my god, what kind of doing business is that)
So how come it became that bad?
“She didn’t know how to control the money. Her lifestyle is very expensive. She took the business money to take her kid around…”. “But in 6 months!” “the winter is very slow. I made mistake. I got the place in April, and we had a great summer. We didn’t have experience, didn’t save for the winter’s rent…”
John is totally opposite from B. He showed off, even something to me sound like shame. In him, you could see clearly the conceit of the guy who had never gone too far from his hometown.
“I used to have an Asian longtime girlfriend for 13 years…”. “How did you know her?”. “She was a topless dancer. I went to see her and felt for her”. “Why did you guys broke up?”. ”I met this Italian lady in a casino in Connecticut. She was living in Vermont. I went there to visit her and felt in love with her”. ”So back home, you told the Asian to move out?”
“So last year, I financed my house to buy that business. It’s cost me 300k so we can work together. I put her name on the title, even though all the money was mine. I put her name on it, because when my father company went bankruptcy, I still owe taxes”. “How do you live all those 30 years”. “I do construction, smaller and private, not like my father union company. So any paycheck, I went to a bank and cash them all. No bank account, no credit card for all those years”. “So now when you are broke up, she is still the legal owner and you are going to court”. “Yes, she doesn’t want to file for bankruptcy, so after we pay all the back rent, she will have to change the name to me or my son. I hope after 30 years, I may be able to do it”.
There were 2 weeks of stress. I tried to help to sell the boat. But I guess I didn’t know anything about boat or dock. Business was slow, and he paid cash daily for all helpers. I found it’s kind of funny the way he ran business.
“The restaurant” original was a gourmet, located in a very nice quiet old town, next from a small quiet harbor. The little town is like a small tourist spot, busy in summer day, dead by 5 pm and sleep all the winter. The guy built a kitchen and put in some tables in one side, and kept the other side selling old gourmet stuff. He served only late breakfast and lunch. They closed at 6pm daily.
I didn’t like the guy. But somehow he showed a lot of interested in me. We had lunch at his “restaurant” sometimes and went out for dinners somewhere else. It’s funny when the guy didn’t like his own restaurant foods.
It was early May, when colorful spring flowers colored every street. The gray of winter was still lingered, fighting with the spring soft sunbeams. Such a nice place to live! A very peaceful harbor, peaceful town, I know I would love this town. I wondered any woman moved in with him because she felt for the town? I could picture living in this place so easily
“When she moved in, she didn’t like my furniture, so we open a garage sales to get rid of my stuff. She moved her furniture in. So when she moved out, she took her furniture, now my house is empty. I will not buy anything until someone move in with me, we will pick furniture together…”
“Lina, be my girlfriend, will you? You are so beautiful. Can’t believe these legs are belong to my girl”
“your son will love this place. I live in front of water all my life. There’s a turkey pass by my business every day, he is from the harbor park.”
“Come on. I think you have a lot to worry about at this moment. So please about how to sell the boat as soon as possible and get back to business. We think about other later”.
"Then will you be my girlfriend?"
“What’s wrong with your head light? Doesn’t working? It’s not good Lina, I’ll change it for you.”
“It’s ok. I’ll go to mechanic tomorrow.”
“No, what do you think about me Lina. I can do it for you. Let’s me do it for you”.
So I let him change the head light bulb.
30 minutes passed
He got up, went to the restaurant kitchen a minute and got out with his son
20 minutes passed.
And the light went on.
And off before I reached home.
The next day, my mechanic told me “whoever changed your light bulb had broken the connections. Now we have to change the whole thing, about 180 bucks.”
Was I lucky to be cared for?
Finally the boat sold.
He got a check, cashed it all and the next day, shocked everybody at landlord lawyer office with the bag of 18 000 cash on desk.
He got the business back, put another woman's name on the title.
I was not the woman.