Area Archaeologist's Girlfriend Hates How He Keeps Digging Up The Past

White Rock, Utah - Susan Minnigan, steady girlfriend of archaeologist area archaeologist Bob Pasters for six months, has come to hate how Bob keeps digging up the past.

"Usually we're really good together, but sometimes we fight," said Susan. "I try to deal with the issues we're facing right now, but he always brings up stuff that happened in the Cretaceous and Jurassic, and won't ever let it go. I admit I've made mistakes, but he makes a whole career out of examining them and finding out what sort of horrible creature I was when we were first dating."

Bob, said Susan, is routinely late to dates she arranges, and often calls her to say that he will be working late on reconstruction of a velociraptor skeleton. "That damn velociraptor. I keep telling Bob that she's dead and gone, that he needs to move on, but he can't let go of her, or anything else. He talks incessantly about her, but never says anything nice about me. Always how its jaws could chomp my head off, like I'm supposed to find that entertaining."

Bob told reporters that in fact he enjoys digging up the past, and often goes on weekend trips to engage in it. "We'll head up to the lower foothills and work on our excavation site there. I've invited Susan along several times, but she keeps saying that if I'm going to visit graves and wallow in what's lost, she doesn't want to come along."

"I love Bob, I really do," said Susan. "But every time I try to get him to look at the present, to leave that dinosaur hussy in the past and move on, he gets defensive and accuses me of not understanding him. Dammit, he just makes me want to take my cutting claw and gut him."







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