1/29/2011

Eternal Sunshine of the... I Forget

Story Submitted by Tim:

Carol was a college girlfriend.  We had been dating for a couple of months when she called things off, but she said that she wanted to stay friends.  I was disappointed, but wasn't too hung up on it.

One night, we were out with a group of friends, drank a fair amount, and ended up hooking up in her bedroom.  We fell asleep, but she woke sometime after two to ask me if I'd leave.  I left.

She called me the next day with a strange request.  "Last night wasn't supposed to happen.  We've got to undo it."

I asked her how she proposed to do that.  She said, "I felt filthy every time you touched me.  I want that out of my head as fast as possible.  There has to be a way to undo it."

Way to make a guy feel good.  We hooked up.  It happens.  I told her that I'd stop talking to her or spending time with her if that would make it better.  She agreed that it was a good idea, but that it still "didn't undo last night."

I said, "I don't know what to tell you.  I don't think you can undo the past."

"I can," she said, and hung up.

I didn't see her again for a while.  Later in the semester when I did, at a party before finals, she introduced herself to me as if she had never met me before.  She also had a new boyfriend.

I didn't want to make things awkward, but the fact that she pretended as if she had never met me before really creeped me out.  She even asked me things that I know she already knew about me.

I was tempted to ask her certain questions that I couldn't have otherwise known, but decided to play along, if that's how she wanted it.  What was weird was that she dropped in a lot of lines like, "Have we ever met before?" or "I feel like I've known you for a while."

At the end of the party, she asked me if she could give me her e-mail address and I quoted it to her (as I already knew it).  I then asked her, as her boyfriend was elsewhere, why she was pretending to not know me.  I said, "We have history, but we can still be friendly, can't we?"

She said, "I'm sorry.  I have no idea what you're talking about."

I stayed out of touch with her after that, which was probably her plan all along.  Still, the fact that she never broke character was a chilling experience that I've never forgotten.

4 comments:

  1. Hypnotism maybe? Or just seen Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind one too many times and brainwashed herself.

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  2. "'I felt filthy every time you touched me. I want that out of my head as fast as possible. There has to be a way to undo it.'"

    This is why I love coming back here, because I know that every time I do a little piece of me dies inside.

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  3. "I felt filthy every time you touched me"
    There are these magical things called words that you can use to let someone know you're feeling uncomfortable.

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