Ordinary

Mr. Teffs was an ordinary man. Once he learned that, he was devastated. It didn’t help that it was a beautiful woman who told him. She meant it as a simple rejection of his sexual advances. He had spent almost a year trying to get her attention, following the rules from popular books such as, How to Pick up Women, Sexual Control, Turning No into Yes. But he had failed in every strategy to get her close to him, to get her to sleep with him, to get her to love him. One night, he had a revelation. I don’t need these books, he thought. I love this woman and I am going to be brutally honest about who I am. I think I could make her happy and I think she is lovely and I want to be with her forever. I want to smell her in the mornings and cook her breakfast and take care of her parents. But it turned out to be a very ordinary revelation.