DirrrtyDanny
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Mike Finn turned the lights out in his shop a little after 7:00pm. It was warm that day, good for applying lacquer. He had two solid-bodies and three bolt-on necks that needed attention, and he had mixed lacquer for all of them. It was a therapeutic process, deciding on exactly the tint and the opacity of the liquid, and while staring at the concoction through the sawdust and the filtered light through the old drive-shed windows, for a moment he felt he could have been transported back to Cremona, and it wasn't guitars he made, he was working instead for the old masters, making violins. This was the place where time stood still, and before he knew it, he had lost the natural light, and had to call it a night.
Still -- the necks, and one of the bodies were lacquered, and they looked great. Tomorrow, there would be time for more. Maybe he'd switch gears and work on electronics tomorrow. Or carve a new body. There was that kid from the next county over who was looking to get something new for his band... what were they called, again? Tequila worm, or something like that. Wiping his hand with the mineral spirits-soaked rag, and then washing up, he closed the shed, and walked the two dozen paces to the little house. Morgan, his old mutt, greeted him half way, and he scratched the old pup behind the ears.
Dinner was pretty simple. Corn on the cob, greens, and leftover corn bread from the night before. He sat and flipped channels for ten minutes, but knew himself well enough to know he'd sit there an hour and never decide on anything, so he flipped the TV off. Wandering over to the laptop, he logged into his website, and uploaded progress shots of the three instruments he had worked on that day to their respective galleries, made a blog post about the evils of polyurethane paint, and then contemplated Facebook for a few minutes.
It wasn't until almost nine thirty that he navigated to Tinder, absently looking at profiles. After about the fifteenth picture, he as stopped dead in his tracks. Was that... He grabbed his phone and texted Maddy, his daughter.
"Who was that girl you roomed with in first year? Emily?"
The reply came a moment later.
"Emma, Dad. Why?"
He let that go for a moment, before answering.
"No reason, sweetheart. Just thinking of that place you had on Colborne. How's Jeff?"
Maddy then sent a flurry of text about how amazing her boyfriend was, and how thoughtful, and what they were doing that weekend, and the trip he was planning for them to Route 66 in a months' time.
But Mike was looking at Emma, on Tinder. He shouldn't. He should have pretended he hadn't seen her. It was inappropriate. He tried to recall the conversations they had, while he'd fixed their bathroom sink, or installed shelves in Maddy's room, or installed the roof rack for Emma on her Mazda. Her beautiful smile and long, waterfall tresses imprinted themselves in his minds' eye, and he thought back the five years since he'd last seen her. A little more toned. A few more freckles. A little less makeup. She was stunning... and against his better judgement, before closing the laptop for the night, he swiped right.
Still -- the necks, and one of the bodies were lacquered, and they looked great. Tomorrow, there would be time for more. Maybe he'd switch gears and work on electronics tomorrow. Or carve a new body. There was that kid from the next county over who was looking to get something new for his band... what were they called, again? Tequila worm, or something like that. Wiping his hand with the mineral spirits-soaked rag, and then washing up, he closed the shed, and walked the two dozen paces to the little house. Morgan, his old mutt, greeted him half way, and he scratched the old pup behind the ears.
Dinner was pretty simple. Corn on the cob, greens, and leftover corn bread from the night before. He sat and flipped channels for ten minutes, but knew himself well enough to know he'd sit there an hour and never decide on anything, so he flipped the TV off. Wandering over to the laptop, he logged into his website, and uploaded progress shots of the three instruments he had worked on that day to their respective galleries, made a blog post about the evils of polyurethane paint, and then contemplated Facebook for a few minutes.
It wasn't until almost nine thirty that he navigated to Tinder, absently looking at profiles. After about the fifteenth picture, he as stopped dead in his tracks. Was that... He grabbed his phone and texted Maddy, his daughter.
"Who was that girl you roomed with in first year? Emily?"
The reply came a moment later.
"Emma, Dad. Why?"
He let that go for a moment, before answering.
"No reason, sweetheart. Just thinking of that place you had on Colborne. How's Jeff?"
Maddy then sent a flurry of text about how amazing her boyfriend was, and how thoughtful, and what they were doing that weekend, and the trip he was planning for them to Route 66 in a months' time.
But Mike was looking at Emma, on Tinder. He shouldn't. He should have pretended he hadn't seen her. It was inappropriate. He tried to recall the conversations they had, while he'd fixed their bathroom sink, or installed shelves in Maddy's room, or installed the roof rack for Emma on her Mazda. Her beautiful smile and long, waterfall tresses imprinted themselves in his minds' eye, and he thought back the five years since he'd last seen her. A little more toned. A few more freckles. A little less makeup. She was stunning... and against his better judgement, before closing the laptop for the night, he swiped right.