On my way to the community college, I pass a fire hall-type place which has a sign out front that reads “Congratulations Jeff and Gina!”

Anyone who went to high school with me will know why that’s amusing. And it reminds me of a story.

When I was dating J, he was good friends with this guy Jeff. Jeff was dating Gina, a girl I’ve known practically since birth. Jeff and Gina are pretty much the reason I started dating J at all. Gee, I should thank them. *cough*

Anyway, this isn’t a story about how completely messed up my relationship was, or how dreadful those years of my life were. I don’t have all day. 😉 No, this is a funny story.

One day, I was at Gina’s, and I saw a piece of paper stuck to the refrigerator with a magnet. On it, scrawled in Jeff’s handwriting, was this:

It’s like having a dream
Where nobody has a heart
It’s like having it all
And watching it fall apart
And I would wait till the end
Of time for you
And do it again, it’s true
I can’t measure my love
There’s nothing to compare it to

“What’s this?” I asked.

“Oh, that’s a poem Jeff wrote for me.”

“Really?” I said. “It sounds sort of familiar…”

Ah…very quickly, I figured out that Jeff had cribbed song lyrics and passed them off as his own. By cleverly not including the chorus

(If I could fly, I’d pick you up
I’d take you into the night
And show you love like you’ve never seen…)

he was able to temporarily get away with it. But then I came along with my brain for remembering even the crappiest of crappy song lyrics and ruined it all for him. 😉

And what the heck is up with this song, anyway? It should be illegal. The first line of the song is “She’s just sixteen years old, leave her alone they say.” And the singer is clearly an adult, not a seventeen-year-old. Creepy.

*shudder*