Pavla (the hopeful romantic/cynical advertising campaign depending on your point of view) got in touch with me today, with a slightly sad end to her tale of love. Here's her email,
"Dear Rich,
thank you very much for your attention and kindness. It really made me pleased.
I had one phone call from girlfriend of Sergia's
and she was just shouting at me and was very rude.
It let me down a lot, because I thought He is fair guy and honest enough to call by himself and tell me the true. But he's not and it's even more worse.
Anyway, It was good experience and made me stronger and cleverer. It's just gonna take some time to be again that happy dreaming girl like before but people like you are helping a lot.
Thanks again Rich
lots of happiness to you
Pavla"
Aaaaah!
Well it's good she was able to be positive about it, and also that the love-rat Sergio was caught out in his filandering by this unlikely piece of publicity.
How did the girlfriend know that this Sergio was her Sergio? I can't tell you. Maybe she's used to him behaving in this way. Maybe she knows that he's always hanging around the Walkabout pub looking for impressionable young tourists to seduce (note to self; that's not a bad plan.Secretly give it a try yourself, whilst maintaining the moral high ground on this website). Maybe he has his way with these girls and gives them a self destructing phone number or uses disappearing ink, thinking this will mean he never has to see them again, but this time was caught out by the dream-hearted romantic, Pavla.
Let's face it, Sergio must have got an earful the night after the posters started appearing all over his neighbourhood.
And though I suppose I predicted that their love would eventually crumble (who'd have guessed it? I am a latter day Nostradamus - where's my barbecue?), though probably not quite so quickly, I think it's great that Pavla is taking it all so positively. She's been hurt by the failure of her false hope and the unexpected consequences of her sweeping romantic gesture. She's started to see through the lies of fate and true love that we are for some reason indoctrinated with in our youth, but clearly still believes that love is waiting for her somewhere else.
And I'm sure it is. In some form. It seems what she has learned is that Sergio is a bit of a dick. A less charitable person might be tempted to create a second advertising campaign informing the people of Shepherds Bush of this fact.
I may be that less charitable person.
If only I had a photo of him.
