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Amusing Tales

Are You A Junkie?

“Do you think maybe you’re a junkie?”

That wasn’t the question I expected to be asked as I sat pondering the lunch menu at Carluccio’s in High Street Kensington.  This wasn’t a meet up with my therapist, counsellor or any other such helpful-minded-bothered-about-me person.  This was actually a first time lunch meet with a potential business associate.

And so I was rather taken aback.

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I took a large gulp of wine, before wondering if I now looked like an alcoholic on top of a junkie.

“Interesting question” I replied.  Which I find is always the best response when you haven’t got a clue how to respond.  “Interesting” is a catch all for a whole range of emotions – including WTF do I say or do now!  Which is how I felt.

But there is only so long you can play for time before you start to arouse suspicions when you have been asked such a direct question.  Unless I answered soon to whether or not I was a junkie I was going to be seen as guilty, regardless of if I later protested my innocence.

I twisted a coil of my hair in my fingertips and fluttered my eyelashes in what I hoped to be an alluring manner, rather than the nervous twitch of a junkie.  Looking coy, I thought, should be the distraction tactic.

It didn’t work.

This time the question was asked more forcefully and with *meaning* accompanied by one of those deep and meaningful “You can confess all to me” expressions which you often find in deep and meaningful movies.   And it was deep.  And meaningful.

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I bit my lip, nervously gnawing off a whole swathe of deep pink waxy lipstick (worn because of my outfit – not the deep and meaningful look).  The outfit had been planned…the conversation hadn’t been.

Before I knew it, I had reached for the wine glass again and swigged the entire fizzy pink contents down.

And, then I found myself blurting.  Blurting until I could not stop.

Yes, I confess, I am a junkie.  I admit it. I am addicted.

“It must be the adrenaline” he replied pretty nonchalantly, which I felt was highly inappropriate given the size of my confession.

But, he smiled at me encouragingly and bathing me in a warmth which felt like a snuggly, fleecy baby’s blanket, he said: “I can understand how you could get hooked.  In fact, I would love to join your AAA club”.

I looked at him quizzically.

“AAA club” I asked

“Auction Addicts Anonymous” he guffawed as he filled my wine glass right to the rim.

Deftly I reapplied my deep pink lipstick and passed him a sheet of paper.

“Here, you can sign up right here” And I passed him a pen.

3 comments
  1. Jason

    Just been on a bike ride from Meopham to Snodland in Kent. Now researching every house we rode past! 😉 Where do I sign up?!

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