whenever someone asks me about ms scribe...or the perpetual cliche...hows married life treating you...i always find myself saying...i got lucky...somehow, i don't get the feeling they understand how true that really is...i can prove it...
four or five years ago...because im such a romantic...and because no matter how big denver gets...it can feel like a small town when youre on a date with someone who knows one of your exes...i was begining to wonder if i had run through the entire dating pool in this city...so...i crunched the numbers...
at that time the estimated population in the front range area was somewhere around...1 million...[correction: that number was for the six county that make up the greater metropolitan area; Adams. Arapaho, Boulder, Denver, Douglas, and Jefferson counties]...and all points in between...even though i know there are slightly more women than men in the area...to keep the math simple i just dividedthat number in half...because...im such a mathlete...
500,000...because the age range i was interested in...25-35...was so narrow...i reduced that number to a third...that age range is either a reflection of my arrogance...or my naivete...i'll leave that for you to decide...
166,666...from that number i removed those who would have no interest in me...and those who i would have no interest in...racists...the insane...either congenital or chemically induced...lesbians...what have you...another third...
55,555...i reduced this number by eliminating anyone living outside of denver...why...i didn't own a car...what a winner...
18,518...another third...i figured about half of these women would be married...so...
9,529...and i rounded it up...for sake of generosity...
10,000...
if my potential dating pool was ten thousand women in the city of denver...i still had a lot of work to do...that's just a little less than a thousand dates a year...for ten years...if i shot for an average of ten dates a month...well you can see where i was headed...
even when i met the future ms scribe...she was supposed to be just one of those ten thousand...and it's music to a single mans ears when the woman he's dating says nearly simultaneous as him...i'm not looking for anything serious, let's just keep things fun...
and then one morning i was laying in bed...looking at her...and something inside me said...of course...i'm supposed to be with this woman...it would be a tremendous mistake if i were not with this woman...and so...here we are...
1 in 10,000...i am a lucky man...
