Disappointed
I’ve actually been a little bothered today by the news that the lovely Michelle Valles of KXAN was arrested and jailed last night on suspicion of drunken driving.
She’s a native of my birthplace of El Paso and a graduate of my alma mater here at UT Austin. And she is almost preposterously beautiful. If she’s on the TV when I’m in the room, it’s an automatic 100 points off my IQ. It doesn’t matter that she’s not particularly skilled at what she does; but it does matter that there should be women who are so perfectly pretty that they make you happy just to behold them. And, anyway, she’s a sweetheart. A truly good person.
I think I’ve emailed her three times. Like some sort of goofy-assed teenaged girl pawing through Tiger Beat while writing a perfume-soaked letter to Shaun Cassidy. On the second email, I asked her for an autographed picture. There was no response until almost exactly a year later. Bizarre. I have no idea if her backlog of requests from other pathetic 35 year-old men was that huge, but she assured me that she was going to send me one right away.
It never came. [cue the 50’s-era sitcom “sad horn” leitmotif]
Anyhow, I strongly disapprove of drunken driving. When I was a young man, I was guilty of much stupidity myself and other politician-like euphemisms. No one has any right to endanger the lives of others with the impaired control of thousands of pounds of metal, glass, and fuel.
I am grateful that Michelle is okay and that she hasn’t harmed anyone. And I am hopeful that she will succeed and put things right in her life. But I needed to say tonight that I am a disappointed admirer.
