{"id":138,"date":"2004-07-02T05:51:00","date_gmt":"2004-07-02T11:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/?p=138"},"modified":"2004-07-02T05:51:00","modified_gmt":"2004-07-02T11:51:00","slug":"news-cafe-cape-town-international-airport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/news-cafe-cape-town-international-airport\/","title":{"rendered":"News Cafe, Cape Town International Airport"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"date-header\">Friday, July 02, 2004<\/h2>\n<p><i>Service: * * *<br \/>\n<br \/>     Food: * *<br \/>\n<br \/>     Ambience: * *<br \/>\n<br \/>     Babe Count: * * * <\/i><b> *<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Chantal V is flying to London this afternoon to meet her new boyfriend&#8217;s parents. She&#8217;s an old flame of mine who I inexplicably dumped some years ago. She contacted me recently after seeing my name in Fair Lady magazine, and we agreed to meet.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been wracking my brain to work out why on earth I broke it off with her. She&#8217;s prime babeage. Only thing is, she smokes. Strange thing is that I simply cannot remember that she was a smoker. I do recall that when we started dating, she was earning about eight times more than me, and I felt intimidated and outclassed. I suspect also that our dating was a victim of a strict rule I apply to myself&#8230; don&#8217;t date clients. (The company she worked at in those days was a client of a web design house I co-owned with a buddy of mine.)<\/p>\n<p>When I picked her up this afternoon in my rental car, it was from her mansion in Camps Bay. You don&#8217;t need to know much about Cape Town to understand that Camps Bay is one of the most desired areas in the world. I don&#8217;t even want to imagine how much her house must have cost.<\/p>\n<p>I thought I was way over this stuff of being outclassed. But there must be some residual bit of self-image crud sitting in me that needs work. I&#8217;ll have to tackle this with Zahava next Thursday in therapy. Because sitting here in the News Cafe at the airport, catching up on what&#8217;s intervened during the years, I feel relieved that she&#8217;s committed to someone else, and that she&#8217;s not available for me to hit on. I&#8217;m a tad intimidated, and STILL feel like I&#8217;m outclassed. Odd. Distinctly odd. <\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\">Roy Blumenthal is a writer, director, artist, and <a href=\"http:\/\/snipurl.com\/visualfacilitator\">visual facilitator<\/a>. Hire him to make pictures of your meetings or workshops.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Friday, July 02, 2004 Service: * * * Food: * * Ambience: * * Babe Count: * * * * Chantal V is flying to London this afternoon to meet her new boyfriend&#8217;s parents. 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