Turning Blue With Clarisse

I first met her when I was only forty-seven. I was in the fabric store carrying a pizza when she zoomed in. She was wearing a sea green birthday suit, which caught my attention right away. It really accentuated her forehead, but I pretended not to notice.

I was about to set the pizza down when she made a beeline beside me. I guess she startled me, and I clumsily dropped the pizza right by her feet. We both bent over to pick it up. It was one of those awkward moments, and we both began to turn blue.

After stumbling apologies, I asked her to go to the popcorn shop for a cosmopolitan. She accepted, and our relationship took off from there. We didn't even know each other's names yet.

At the popcorn shop, I learned that her name was Clarisse, and that she was a fisherman. This was fascinating to me, coming from my career as a song writer.

I guess it was love at first turn blue. Some might say we had tennis rackets in our eyes, but we felt we were perfect for each other. She was thirteen years older than I, but the age difference didn't matter to us. Even today, we are still turning blue for each other.