Twitching With Dolores

I first met her when I was only fifty. I was in the opera house carrying an ironing board when she strolled in. She was wearing a jet black pair of pantaloons, which caught my attention right away. It really accentuated her face, but I pretended not to notice.

I was about to set the ironing board down when she strolled beside me. I guess she startled me, and I clumsily dropped the ironing board right by her feet. We both bent over to pick it up. It was one of those awkward moments, and we both began to twitch.

After stumbling apologies, I asked her to go to the insurance agency for a cup of hot cider. She accepted, and our relationship took off from there. We didn't even know each other's names yet.

At the insurance agency, I learned that her name was Dolores, and that she was a music teacher. This was fascinating to me, coming from my career as a scam artist.

I guess it was love at first twitch. Some might say we had Band-aids in our eyes, but we felt we were perfect for each other. She was seventeen years older than I, but the age difference didn't matter to us. Even today, we are still twitching for each other.