Let Me Tell You About Love by Hadar Badt EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Author: Hadar Badt
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I’ll never forget the day I met Raphael. It happened to be the same day I
finally stopped believing in love—and everything else, for that matter. It
was a gloomy winter Wednesday. Absolutely horrific. The rain was
coming down like crazy. I was almost certain it did so out of spite, knowing
I’d forgotten to bring an umbrella. I was walking along a quiet street in
Berlin (yes, we have dull streets here, too, believe it or not—it’s not all
Schicki-Micki) soaked to the bone, and far too busy indulging myself in
self-pity, trying to make up for all those years my pride had prevented me
from doing so, when some mysterious urge compelled me to look down and
behold a weird business card:
Raphael: Personal Guardian Angel
rapha@yaya.com
Raphael? A personal guardian angel? Oh, puh-lease! I can’t say I was
surprised. After five years of living in this city, I found myself reacting as
does every fellow (or wannabe) Berliner when encountering yet another
obscenity or oddity: a shake of the head and a smirk accompanied by the
notorious shrug. People warned me about Berlin, saying how incorrigible it
is, but I thought they were exaggerating. Well, they weren’t. Impossible
things happen daily in this fun-loving, hipster paradise, from those weirdos
who talk with their imaginary friends on the subway to that stranger last
week who claimed to have met me in a former life or that French bartender
at my local Kneipe (bar), who also happened to be a psychic for pets. God
only knows what led me to pick up the card and put it in my pocket, but I
promptly forgot all about it for the time being.
Caught up in thought and my own misery, I let my feet carry me home.
I’d left work early that day. My excuse? I said I was sick. I wasn’t really
sick-sick, but it wasn’t a lie-lie either. I just had to get out of there. I
couldn’t stand even one more second sitting there in my cubicle, the same
cubicle I’d been sitting in for the past five years of my life, forced to listen
to that never-ending, meaningless chatter of my coworkers.
I don’t know
why I lost it that particular day. It wasn’t the first time my heart had been
broken. Shitty days happen. That’s life. Get over it, right? One minute I was
sitting at my Mac, going through a tiresome financial report my boss had
sent, and the next I felt like I was about to throw up, cry, scream, pluck my
hair out, and tear down that awful cubicle, all at the same time. But I didn’t,
of course. I sat there for another hour, staring blankly at the ninety-eightpage PDF report in disbelief. Five years. Five years of my life had vanished
—just like that!—in a job I hated.
It wasn’t that the job was boring or that my boss was an asshole. He was
actually a nice guy, decent and fair, and so were my colleagues. It was fear.
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