Lads wheres the best Trad Music Pub in Meath? I am willing to go anywhere for a few pints and decent music to settle my soul.
Preferably not just one man and his guitar!!
Edit- For Saturday nights!
Yesterday I was in a shop and I saw a girl that I recognized - from at least 25 years ago!!
For context im 46 and 3/4s :-) and I live in a different county to where I was raised.
It was the most bizarre thing - I have my two kids with me and I was kind of distracted chatting to one of them and I bumped this girls shopping trolley - nothing mad just that usual supermarket thing where I Irish people say sorry to each other 50 times ....
Anyway I looked up to say sorry 50 times and I instantly recognised her as a girl I met in a local nightclub when I was early 20s. She looked the same albeit older and stopped me in my tracks.
I could see that she also recognised me too - we both had kids with us similar age. I would presume shes a similar age to me. We sort of said hi to each other and carried on.
But thinking back to that night when I met her we had a shift a few times in the club. I walked her home. Had another shift etc. She gave me her number. A landline indeed. The world before mobile phones.
I was absolutely blown away by how I felt around her for that few hours. Something about her made me feel a deep attraction. Way more than the usual physical thing.
I was so shy as a youngster but I wanted to see her again. So the next day I got over my shyness and I phoned her house - no answer. Fukc! I called to her house in person the next afternoon and her Dad opens the door asked who I was - I told him. He asked me where I was from and I told him. I was raised in a council estate - this was a private estate across the park. He said to me I dont want boys from there with my daughter dont call again. He shut the door. I was sick. I didnt call again. I knew the girl worked in retail in the shopping centre but I didnt have the guts to go in to her to talk to her. So nothing ever came from it.
We have obviously both gone off and lived lives, got married , had kids etc. As you do.
That deep sense of attraction was still there when I looked at her. It absolutely blew my mind. It actually shook me.
Anyway I am happily married for a long time but the thing it got me thinking what would my life have been like if I hadnt listened to her father. If I had had the guts to go into the store where she worked to speak to her. If we had mobile phones back then would my life have taken a different route. Probably.
It also me thinking of the discrimination suffered when I was young - my estate was bad but I wasnt. I was raised by a good woman on her own as my father was gone. That discrimination became laughable as I grew older and realised most people that lived in those "private" houses were from the same areas of inner Dublin as the urban sprawl occurred .
It got me thinking how quickly time passes - I am 3 years away from 50 now. Where is the time gone? Where does it go?
Sorry its a bit of a ramble - I am just a bit disturbed at the idea that I bump into a person I spent a few hours with a quarter of a century ago and what to do with all these thoughts and feelings.
Adding this edit for added context
I have no desire to cheat. Never have and never would. I have worked hard to build a life thats comfortable but its ok to think about things and have thoughts.
Its a safe bet that everyone that's married is attracted to other people from time to time. Its normal. Most dont act on it. I wouldnt. I certainly wouldn't be looking to find her. Thats not what this is about.
Christ on a Bike - or more accurately an Electric Bike!
Walked down the pedestrianized Capel street yesterday and nearly got wiped out twice by speeding bikes! On my return down the street I got into a heated argument with one of these e motor bike speeders that had the fucking audacity to have a go at me for walking in a zone designated for pedestrians. I wasnt in the mood for him put it that way.
I think its a total disgrace - pedestrians are not safe.