Awkward

I had my Mom in town this weekend for Mother's Day. Mom is an antique collector and all-around bargain hunter, so I took her to Eastern Market on Saturday. I was standing in the shade under a tent while she beat up some poor vendor about the price on one of his items when I spotted Kay walking by.

Kay is my friend Martin's ex girlfriend. I explained what happened to them in my "Long Distance Relationships and Cohabitation" post, so I won't go into the whole thing again.

So I saw Kay but she was a few steps past me by the time I figured out who she was, and decided not to say anything. A few minutes later I saw Martin's sister (who is also my buddy's wife), so I stopped her and said hello. We talked for a little while, and I mentioned that I saw Kay, and it turns out they were there together with a group of about five other girls. They all came over and we shot the shit for 15 minutes. I eventually excused myself so I could track down my Mom before she bought more crap than I could haul home for her.

This morning my buddy Chuck called me and asked me when I was going to ask out Kay. We had joked about this once before, but I didn't get the feeling he was joking this time. I said "Are you saying that because I ran into Kay on Saturday?", and he said "No, I am saying it because she's better than anyone you've dated in a while." This was a good point, but I still couldn't tell if he was being serious. Chuck said "Martin is OK with his, we asked him." Now I was really uncomfortable. Someone in my group of friends is trying to play matchmaker, I'm just not sure who it is yet.

Kay is very cute, and the few times we hung out I thought she was cool. I don't know much more about her than this, though.

I don't doubt that someone asked Martin if I could date his ex, and of course the only thing he could say is "sure", because he broke up with her. However, that doesn't really mean that he is all right with it. That aside, there are bigger problems.

The biggest problem is that while I am not great friends with Martin, I am friends with his sister and her husband, and I would never want there to be any bad blood between us. If they were casually dating this would be less of an issue, but they lived together so it was a etty serious relationship.

I am going to ignore the topic and see if it surfaces again.