Flawless babble from the single most important human being ever to walk the earth.
Slowly becoming more comfortable with who I am now, enabling others to slowly accept that I’ll never be THAT Jorge again.
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Hashtag #NeverForget
During the month leading up to the Dallas Cowboys’ final regular season in Texas Stadium, ESPN Radio was giving away season tickets once a day.
I had a deal with my friend, Ryan, that every time one of us heard the queue on the radio to call in, we would alert the other. If one of us won as a result, we would split the tickets. I also had my wife (then, fiance) helping me out. I gave her the number to the station’s prize hotline, telling her, “If I ever call you and the only thing I say is, ‘Call the number!’ and then I hang up, this is the number I want you to call.”
But still, I knew it was a long shot. I wasn’t getting my hopes up.
For a couple of weeks, this process went on. I would hear the queue, shoot a text to Ryan, call Tara and then start calling the hotline myself. One of us had to be the 13th caller to win. We tried every day, we failed every day.
And then there was that one day. I heard the queue, did my routine, and after about 15 minutes of busy signals, gave up the fight. That was when my phone started ringing. It was Tara.
“Hey.”
“Oh my God. I just won.”
(Lots of screaming, jumping for joy and general hoopla on my end)
“Parrales, stop screaming and let me finish.”
“Ok, I’m sorry. I’m just so excited!”
“Yeah, well…they won’t let me have them.”
(Devastation) “What?!?! Why not?”
“It’s being sponsored by Miller Lite. I have to be 21 to redeem it, and they won’t just let me give them someone else’s information. Do you still love me?”
(Silence)
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The rest is mostly irrelevant. We equipped Tara with fake information and tried again every day until the end of the promotion, but to no avail.
For a brief, 5-minute window of time, I considered calling off my engagement. But then I realized I still loved Tara and stuck it out with my underage girl. Still though, as far as devastating moments go, it remains in my top 5 most painful experiences, surpassed only by deaths of loved ones and the like.
And though we remained together, Tara and I are still working through it three years later. It becomes especially poignant every time the summer months start to roll around.
#NeverForget
#OMGjk
