The One That Got Away

by Mike Gayle

So, like I’ve been saying for ages, stop holding a candle for this woman and move on, just like she obviously has.’

I’m sixty-six, not eighty-six. Those sorts of things are for proper old people, and despite what you might think, I’m not there yet.’

Basically, you just use every opportunity that comes your way to talk to people, but make the conversation about them, not you, and have no expectations about anything other than having a good chat with a stranger.

Of all the people in the world that she could’ve called for help, she chose me, and in doing so she has made me her co-conspirator, her partner in crime, the Clyde to her Bonnie.

she isn’t winding me up just for the lols;

life doesn’t come with any guarantees, all you get – all any of us get – is what we get. So, in the end, all you can do is put your best foot forward, and keep doing that ’til the day you die.’

lying on a beach drinking your third mojito of the morning.