Desperate Single Investment Banker
During those good old hotel times I spent in downtown Denver, I got to witness a persistent chase between a young investment banker Lisa (alias used) and my buddy Paco(alias used), a software engineer whom I used to work with. Lisa lived in an exclusive apartment on the top of the hotel we stayed. Paco is a huge football fan, so you sort of can figure that whenever there was a game, he’d be sitting in the hotel bar watching the game. Guess what, the next thing you know, Lisa turned herself into this huuuuuuuge football fan and sat by Paco nights in and nights out until Paco couldn’t take it anymore.
Paco left Denver a few months later and went to Atlanta for a new project. Andy (alias used), a new hire from Atlanta came to Denver to continue the work and stayed in the same hotel. Andy happens to be “Mr. healthy” who usually spends every night in the gym from 8 to 10.
One morning, Andy came in and said, “Guess what… I think a girl from the hotel apartment really likes me. She is an investment banker…Blah blah blah.. “
“Lisa???” And I told Andy Paco’s story.
I didn’t think Andy was taking me seriously at that time.
A few days later, Andy started to panic,
“Christine, Lisa followed me everywhere. When I stepped out of the gym at 10pm, she was stretching by the front desk! I kid you not!! Who would be stretching by the front desk after the gym is closed???”
“Hahaha… told ya!“
I just can’t help but laughing…
I usually go to the same gym to workout and one night when I got out of the gym at around 9:45pm, I saw Lisa doing all kinds of stretching and warming up by the front desk.
“Lisa… the gym closes in 15 minutes. What are you doing here?“
“Oh, just hanging out…Did you see Andy?”
“Oh, Andy got hurt earlier when he was playing basketball… “
“Oh, maybe I should check on him…. “
“Well, that may not be necessary …”
It took me a while to talk her out of that idea.
The next morning when Andy came to work, he just went ballistic,
“Guess what! Lisa called me at 11 last night wanted to come over and give me advil. What the f$#@! This is creepy! Doesn’t matter how pretty, how smart or how nice the girl is, this is too creepy!”
“Hmm, desperate lonely Investment Banker, I guess… “
Andy is leaving Denver in 2 weeks going back to Atlanta since the project is wrapping up. Paco is still down in Atlanta. The last thing I heard about Lisa is that she is ready to move to Atlanta sometime this summer. As their good friend, I gave both of them some good advise, “OK, now since there are two of you in Atlanta, split the workload by half, maybe you can finally share Lisa’s needs and not feeling too overwhelmed. Yeah?”



