#6 - ALMOST CRAWLED INTO BED WITH ME - BUT A FRIEND STOPPED HIM

filming on location for an indie short film that i'm producing. we're wrapped for the day and i'm in bed, sleeping. the DOP (who was unhappily married at the time) decided, while extremely drunk, that he was going to go back into the house where i was sleeping and "crawl into bed with me".

my male friend stopped him. in his tracks. and told him that i was NOT interested in him, and that he should just go to bed upstairs (i was downstairs).

funny thing is: my friend told me a very small part of what happened the next morning while DOP slept off his hangover. basically that the DOP thought i liked him, and that my friend had told him that i didn't like him, and he said he saw the DOP's heart, and i quote: "three sizes too small, crack and break into pieces" (ala Dr Seuss's Grinch).

so when DOP got up, i didn't hesitate, and said: "so i heard you love me?" and laughed at him. sure, i found him attractive, and definitely flirted with him here and there over the years, but, he was married.

he looked mortified. then tried desperately to figure out what had been told to me. after that point, he stopped flirting with me at work all the time (we worked together often around this point).

years later my friend tells me the other stuff. blew my fucking mind how damn entitled this DOP thought he was to my damn sleeping body. like, we'd never crossed the friendship line and he thought he could crawl into bed with me??? WTF indeed.

if i see him somewhere i do speak to him. but, i do think if my friend didn't stop him, he would of tried to crawl into bed with me. i'm light sleeper.

and i would of said:

WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING