Saved by the camera.

A dating adventure.

Sometimes you are on a disaster date and you desperately want to get away, but you can’t seem to, because the person has been talking nonstop for an hour and a half without taking a breath and you’ve been trying to interject a couple of times, only to be roundly ignored.

But: if you have your camera with you, you can be saved!

In this particular case, I looked around and suddenly noticed the lamp and the crazy beautiful sky and the sailboats going to sleep so I popped out of my seat like a mad Jack and exclaimed: “Oh my God this is extraordinary! – excuse me for a minute“ and without further ado strode to the edge of the dock and started shooting.

By the time I came back, he had lost his momentum, thank God, so I paid and said “I’m so sorry, but I just realized how exhausted I feel – it’s been crazy and I need to go home and collapse, but we’ll talk soon I’m sure”, all the while walking sideways and backwards, eyeing the exit and silently groaning.

And why didn’t I want to listen to more of his insanity? If I gave you the details, you would bust a vertebra from shaking your head. Some of these guys should put a poster of Oprah on their wall and pretend she’s interviewing them, and talk and talk and talk talk talk talk talk until it’s been exhausted out of them.

Otherwise I will just sit there and listen and let them tell me who they are – regrettably so, sometimes! Although it is always good fodder for stories. 😂😫😂