Bill
I guess I was one of those who had a sort of “crush” on a teacher. In 6th grade, I became fond of one teacher, who many thought of as the “iron lady”, (in that she would take NO crap from anyone, and was said to give swats to students more often and harder than the principal.) However—I was able to remain on her GOOD side. She seemed to take an interest in my technical curiosities and such, even before I was in her class(from study hall and such). I was MADE to leave that school early in the 6th grade, to go to a private school, but this lady went to the church I started going to—and we became good friends(at least—that is what i THOUGHT at the time..) Before too long, I was not only friends with her, but had ALSO began to develop a friendship with her husband, who was deeply into computers and such and for a VERY short time, it LOOKED like I would be good friends with BOTH of them—and that he would even take an interest in me, and have me help him “work on” some things with him so as for me to learn more in my electronics hobby—and future career.
By that time, I was starting to think of Darlene as a second mother. But soon after—some not-too-good things happened at the church, which upset her, and she left, WITHOUT giving me ANY warning that she would do so until the DAY she left. I tired to have some friendship with her after that—but to no avail. Her husband also totally lost all interest in “giving me a chance” to increase my knowledge. In the end..she forgot me totally. Within the last 10 years I tried to contact her, and see if she wanted to become friends again, and at first—she was excited about seeing me—and THEN, retracted her invitation for me to come over there to her house.
A few years later when I was 14-15,I became friends with the mother of a girl I liked(but who did NOT really like me back, other than when it was “convenient” to do so) and once again,I thought I had “someone to go to” to talk things over with. For awhile, we seemed to have a somewhat close friendship—but in the end—she cut me off too, and THEN—believed a LIE told about me that I was doing drugs and selling them, in order to protect a girl who WAS getting drugs, cigarettes and beer for kids in the youth group.(I have spoken about this before here—and do not wish to go into details about it again.)
She does have her own email.
Actually, I think I blew it with that. Because soon after my last visit my birthday came and I got a happy birthday email from her email and then a week later I got a thank you for being such a great customer email.
I wasn't sure if that was normal for an insurance company or not and I didn't respond. Yes, I'm kicking myself.
But I recently got a speeding ticket, so I have an excuse to go in to ask her about my rates. I just got to figure out how to get rid of the old lady.