CHAPTER 6
Monday morning and I was determined to put recent events behind me. Well, that was after I had retold the story blow by blow to Connie and Lulah over a box of krispy kremes.
Luckily Vinnie was down at the courthouse signing papers so he wasn't there to lecture me about giving his business a bad name. Connie said there had been an abnormal amount of arrests last night and that Vinnie was as happy as a pig in shit.
I took a stack of files and left the girls to their manicures and Vinnie to his farm animals.
The files I had picked up kept me busy for most of the day, a couple of my regulars and a first time offender who smelt a lot like my good friend Mooner, so I offered him a trip to McDonalds and he came quietly.
Even with my numerous trips to the station I still had not seen Morelli since "the big break up." Which I thought was strange, but I was pretty sure he was avoiding me. I think he was worried I would run him over with big blue again.
He should be so lucky.
The big break up, and I call it that because this time I had a feeling that it was going to last, happened almost a month ago now. It was after the whole Abruzzi …mess. There were a lot of reasons, my job, his job, my family, my job some more, placement of cookie jars, my job again, hockey versus football, Ranger, more specifically his suspicions about my relationship with Ranger, and my job.
But funnily enough what it came down to in the end was that we were too alike.
We had the same childhoods, same ambitions, same taste in pizza, same lifestyles, same stubborn streak, same independence.
We were the same side of the coin.
It works for some couples, but most definitely was not going to work for Joe and me. We would have either ended up killing each other or turning in to one of those couples who dress alike - his and her matching outfits. Yuck, no thank you.
We have similar tastes, opinions and attitudes on some things, but on others we are the exact polar opposite. And I don't think even if we lived to be 1000 would we ever find a happy balance between the two.
All sounds like a friendly and amicable split right?
We it actually was, all things considered.
And by that I mean the guy had no idea it was coming, Not a single clue, an inkling, nothing.
Calmly and concisely, keeping my temper the whole time I told him exactly how I was feeling and he just sat there with a beer in one hand and the TV remote in the other, mouth hanging open.
I think that was what got him the hardest.
I handled it well though, no screaming or anything. Which is why I think that Joe is still being wary. He's waiting for the big explosion. But I don't think its coming.
I'm waiting to find out how I will take seeing him now.
But today wasn't the day. It was Eddie who came to the dock, when I buzzed for assistance.
Oh joy let the games begin.
There was no way in the world that Eddie was going to let Saturday's fiasco go by with out a whole lot of teasing at my expense.
"Hey, Big Dog The Bombshell Bounty Hunter 's here" I heard him yell back into the squad room before he came out to help my with my skip who had fallen asleep in the backseat of my jeep.
CHAPTER 6
Monday morning and I was determined to put recent events behind me. Well, that was after I had retold the story blow by blow to Connie and Lulah over a box of krispy kremes.
Luckily Vinnie was down at the courthouse signing papers so he wasn't there to lecture me about giving his business a bad name. Connie said there had been an abnormal amount of arrests last night and that Vinnie was as happy as a pig in shit.
I took a stack of files and left the girls to their manicures and Vinnie to his farm animals.
The files I had picked up kept me busy for most of the day, a couple of my regulars and a first time offender who smelt a lot like my good friend Mooner, so I offered him a trip to McDonalds and he came quietly.
Even with my numerous trips to the station I still had not seen Morelli since "the big break up." Which I thought was strange, but I was pretty sure he was avoiding me. I think he was worried I would run him over with big blue again.
He should be so lucky.
The big break up, and I call it that because this time I had a feeling that it was going to last, happened almost a month ago now. It was after the whole Abruzzi …mess. There were a lot of reasons, my job, his job, my family, my job some more, placement of cookie jars, my job again, hockey versus football, Ranger, more specifically his suspicions about my relationship with Ranger, and my job.
But funnily enough what it came down to in the end was that we were too alike.
We had the same childhoods, same ambitions, same taste in pizza, same lifestyles, same stubborn streak, same independence.
We were the same side of the coin.
It works for some couples, but most definitely was not going to work for Joe and me. We would have either ended up killing each other or turning in to one of those couples who dress alike - his and her matching outfits. Yuck, no thank you.
We have similar tastes, opinions and attitudes on some things, but on others we are the exact polar opposite. And I don't think even if we lived to be 1000 would we ever find a happy balance between the two.
All sounds like a friendly and amicable split right?
We it actually was, all things considered.
And by that I mean the guy had no idea it was coming, Not a single clue, an inkling, nothing.
Calmly and concisely, keeping my temper the whole time I told him exactly how I was feeling and he just sat there with a beer in one hand and the TV remote in the other, mouth hanging open.
I think that was what got him the hardest.
I handled it well though, no screaming or anything. Which is why I think that Joe is still being wary. He's waiting for the big explosion. But I don't think its coming.
I'm waiting to find out how I will take seeing him now.
But today wasn't the day. It was Eddie who came to the dock, when I buzzed for assistance.
Oh joy let the games begin.
There was no way in the world that Eddie was going to let Saturday's fiasco go by with out a whole lot of teasing at my expense.
"Hey, Big Dog The Bombshell Bounty Hunter 's here" I heard him yell back into the squad room before he came out to help my with my skip who had fallen asleep in the backseat of my jeep.
