You're probably going to dismiss this as an urban myth or just another locker room story, but the guy who lived it told it to me and I think it means something. I just don't know what yet.
We've all had encounters with ex's, wives and girlfriends who come back or show up after a time. Sometimes we even take them in again --- or they take us in. Those things are pretty common and follow a few predictable patterns. This one was different. Sit down. We've got time. Swallow it down or don't, I don't care but this is the story as he told it to me.
It seems that this guy and the woman in question had known each other for several years through business, had been lovers once for a brief time and had wound up in the same luxury townhouse complex a couple of years later --- after she married someone else. They had managed to remain friends and often exchanged greetings and jokes when they encountered each other briefly, but on this particular day she seemed somber. He had run into her at the gas station just down the street from the complex and they had talked for a minute, then started to get into their respective cars. Just as the guy started to pull his door closed he looked up and saw her there. She must have turned and followed him to his car.
"Would you like to come up for a minute? I've something to ask you," she said softly, her eyes downcast. He started to beg off, not wanting get into the middle of anything, but she seemed to need something so he went.