Tell me about Montana. Do you go home much? I assume you still have family there.
Yep. All of my family is still in my hometown, called Red Lodge. I try to go back at least once a year, if work allows it. You grew up here? I can’t imagine what that was like.
I feel the same way about Montana.
Did you ever learn to ride a bike? Where? I lived on my bike, riding it all over town.
This makes me laugh out loud.
Of course I rode my bike. I didn’t grow up on another planet. It was just Queens.
Queens might as well be another planet compared to Montana. Your parents really let you just get on your bike and go?
I didn’t ride to other boroughs, if that’s what you’re asking. Do you know how far it would be to go from my house to Lower Manhattan?
Yeah, I didn’t think about that. My town was so small that I could ride my bike around the entire town in an hour. And everyone knew everyone, so it was like I had a hundred parents watching me wherever I went.
Now, that I couldn’t imagine. I only knew our direct neighbors and some only because they would yell at me to get off the sidewalk.
So, I guess you never got to explore and get dirty, riding in the creeks?
I was a girlie girl, dresses and all. No getting dirty for me, creek or not. Were you one of those boys you read about in Huck Finn who brought frogs home in their pockets?
Absolutely! And I loved every minute of it.
So, how did a seemingly country boy end up in the big city?
I ask myself that often. I love my job, but I miss home sometimes too.
I saw on the app it says you want kids. Would you want to stay here and raise those kids or move back home to give them the childhood you had, growing up?
Wow, kids question already. I’ve only known you all of about five minutes.
I close my eyes and let out a sigh. I’m so not that type of girl who's concerned about her ticking clock, and I know it just came off that way. I start to reply with that fact, but he responds before I do.
Totally kidding. That’s a valid normal conversation question that I honestly don’t have the answer to. I guess it just depends on where life takes me and what my wife wants.
Don’t worry, my clock hasn’t even been wound yet, so there’s no maternal ticking here. One day, but not anytime soon.
Good to know.
So, you’re old school, like you want to be married before kids?
Kind of weird that’s considered old school, but yes. I would want to do things in that order. I want my wife to have my same last name before we have kids, make sure we’re stable enough to take on the stress that comes with raising a child.
You act like you know this stress firsthand.
I have six brothers and sisters. I’m the oldest, so, yes, I kind of do.
SIX?!
LOL! Yes, six. How many siblings do you have?
Just me.
Wow. Your house must have been so quiet.
Ha! Your house must have been so loud! What are the age ranges?
