If you like Pina Coladas

John was nervous as he waited at the restaurant. He wasn't afraid that someone would recognize him...he was 40 miles from the town he lived in and this little restaurant seemed an unlikely place to run into someone that he knew.

No...John was nervous because he had come to meet a woman that he'd met online. John had told his wife Kim that he was going to play cards with his friends.

He kept looking towards the door and thought about what had led him to that point....

....John and Kim had been married for 9 years. They'd been together for 3 years before that. After 12 years with just one person things become...routine...boring. John wanted some excitement back in his life.

He'd started by looking at porn on the internet. For several months that had put a small spark of excitement back into John's life and he used it as inspiration to try to rekindle the fires of his love life with Kim. It didn't seem to work which had John disheartened.

It was about that same time that he started looking at adult personal ads online. He didn't think he'd ever cheat on Kim, but that didn't stop him from reading some of the profiles.

To read the full profile you had to create one of your own. John decided that he definitely didn't want any pictures of himself on a website like that so he didn't post any. He simply posted some information about himself including his likes and dislikes. He loved old movies, he played golf, he loved days when it rained, his favorite drink were Pina Coladas...things like that.

John began searching the personal ads until he found a woman that seemed too good to be true.

There were no pictures, but everything she listed in the profile was something that John liked or something that they had in common. Cary Grant was her favorite actor, she enjoyed most of the same authors, and she liked Pina Coladas.

John got up the courage to send a message to the woman saying hello. She emailed him back and they began emailing regularly. They didn't exchange pictures and they didn't use their real names, just their screen names.

It was fun, it was exciting, but it was still safe. All he was doing was emailing the woman; he wasn't cheating on his wife Kim.

Then she asked him if he thought they should meet. John said he needed time to think about it. For two weeks he thought about the consequences of what meeting her would be. If Kim found out his marriage could be over. Was it over already? They'd both been so preoccupied by other things that they hadn't made love in more than a month.

Finally John had gotten up the courage to agree to meet her. They set it up for a place that they could both get to easily but neither of them would be likely to be recognized.

The woman told John that she'd be wearing a red sweater and John told her he'd be wearing a bright yellow polo shirt....

.....John was sitting near at a table within view of the door and was constantly watching the door for a woman in a red sweater when he saw her. John's eyes lit up...a woman in a red sweater walked through the door...she was absolutely beautiful...the most beautiful woman that John had ever seen.

She didn't see him at first as she was scanning the whole room, but then she looked his way and saw the man in the bright yellow polo shirt and walked towards the table. He was very good looking.

He stood up to meet her.

"I never would have guessed." John said.

"Neither would I." Kim said.

"This does explain one thing though." John said.

"What's that?" Kim asked.

"It explains why RED-HAIRED-VIXEN seemed so perfect for me...I was already married to her." John said.

"I guess we've been taking each other for granted lately...forgotten what we had." Kim said.

"Not anymore. Well...we came all this way to have dinner...let's eat." John said.

They sat down, and the waiter came over.

"Can I start you two out with a drink?" The waiter asked.

John and Kim looked at each other and smiled.

"We'll take a couple of Pina Coladas." John said.

"Coming right up." The waiter said.

During dinner someone walked over to the jukebox and played the song "If you like Pina Coladas". When John and Kim heard the song come on they just looked at each other and laughed.