Valentine-idis

Valentines day came to early for me. 7:30 a.m. and we were rolling out of the base and off to Cody to help build a house for Habitat For Humanity. The house actually ended up being the same one that we had put the floor in for back in October. Now we were sanding and mudding the walls. Even with a face mask on i was sure i was gonna suffocate sanding the ceiling. All that dirt and dust falling right in my face. By the time i finished i was coated in it. Some of the walls were freshly mudded and not dry enough to be sanded so we used a wet sponge instead. After finishing the big main room i went into one where Daniel was mudding and a couple of other guys were working...ish. The other guys were: Ed (the man we were building the house for), his friend Troy, and some high school kid. For the next hour i was entertained by these guys and there questions but it did not take very long for me to see where this was going.

"Do you sing?" Ed asked.

"Nope"

"Does it bother you when Daniel sings?"

shrug

What do you do when it bothers you?

"ignore him"

"Women are good at that, ignoring people and tuning them out" the guys joked with each other

"Are you in college"

"No"

"Are you gonna go?"

"No"

"How about the marines or the army?"

"I am not that hard core"

"your not? You should be a private investigator"

"uh huh"

In the midst of all of these questions Ed kept pointing out to troy that he should duct me off with a broom cause i"d been sitting on the floor, i also got offered a bucket to sit on and got the broom shaken off over my head a few dozen times.

Then came the real question, "Do you have a boyfriend?

"Troy is 22 (or somthing like that) how old are you?"

"Why aren't you dating?"

"Relationships are to much work" (so bug off dude)

Then they left. Suddenly Ed popped back in and was like, "Um so you know my friend, Troy, the one who is with me, well um he was wondering if you would like to go out to dinner with him some time and..

No

Maybe just for a coffee?

No i am not interested

Your sure?

Yes

Okay

I thought maybe things would be awkard after that but no, Troy just flirted all the more.

The guy must have been really desperate, or just retarded. I said no rather harshly and besides that i looked like crap. Although he had red teeth like seriously red teeth and it was Valentines so i guess maybe that was it.

Did i mention what i was wearing that day? Let me explain. Old faded jeans covered in stains with an old wholly brown shirt covered by a very large flannel shirt that was missing half the buttons, my hair was messy and i had attempted to cover it with a wrangler hat and then of course there was that awful layer of dust.