A Big Mix Up
I had talked to Chris the night before. He had just gotten his new phone installed. If you want the number...ahhh thought I was actually going to give it out didn't you? I've been telling him that he needs to give me expilicit written instructions because he's been complaining a lot that I don't listen to him. Case in point. He wanted me to dub the first four episodes of the show onto one tape before I turned in our public access dub of Episode 4 in. I understood it that he just wanted a copy of Episode 4 and that was it. That's all he got and so he accused me of not listening to him.
I keep having to explain that 1.)I'm a visual learner. I can't just know exactly what you're talking about from verbal expression alnoe 2.)What I do hear is all dependent on what I'm doing when you're talking to me. If I'm involved in something else that's requiring my concentration then most of what you say won't even be processed by my brain. I think all of us are like that, but I especially hate when others try to use it against me as if to say that it's a defect in my makeup.
So anyway, he was giving me some instructions that he was telling me to write down so that I could refer to them so that I would leave nothing out. This list of instructions primarily involved bringing the VCR down to Fort Worth for the weekend so that we could start editing Shows 6&7. We generally get together with Brian at his apartment at 9:00 on Thursdays. I mentioned to Chris that since I would have over 5 hours from the time I got out of class until the time that we were supposed to meet at Brian's that maybe I would stop off at Chris' earlier in the day so that we could start the editing.
As it turned out the following day, I didn't manage to get out of Denton until almost 9:00. When I had gotten out of class I decided to start some of the practice editing. I had gotten so wrapped up into it that it was very late when I got finished with it.
I was running very late but I decided to stop off at Chris' apartment first since it was on the way to see if he was still there. I didn't actually go in which was a big mistake. I went around the parking lot to see if his car was still there. I didn't see it at first glance so I assumed that he had already gone to Brian's. Since I was already late as it was I decided that it would be best not to stop and to continue on to Brian's.
When I got to Brian's, Chris was not there. Brian told me that Chris had called to see if I had shown up there already. It would have been so easy to just call Chris, but there was one problem. I had lost the piece of paper that I had written the number on along with Chris' instructions. Brian didn't know what the number was either. In fact the previous night I wouldn't have even gotten Chris' number the first time had I not realized to ask before we hung up. Unfortunately information didn't have a listing for Chris(I later found out that Chris intentionally got the number unlisted so that certain people would not be able to get a hold of it).
I thought to page him, but Brian was in a hurry to get out the door because he had to go feed the cats at Kim's apartment because she was out of town for the week. I left a note on Brian's door just in case Chris decided to show up while we were gone. We were gone for almost an hour and when we got back Chris had not shown up. By that time it was definitely too late to salvage the what was left of the night.
I didn't get to Chris' until 1 a.m. He had been home the entire time. I somehow managed to miss seeing his car. The reason he never left was because he thought that I was supposed to meet him at his place and then we would go to Brian's together. Either HE WASN'T LISTENING TO ME or I just miscommunicated my intentions the night before. Maybe it's both.