Saturday, October 27, 2012

They don't make men like this any more

The best part of the evening was meeting Princess Donna in person. She's pretty. She's powerful. She showed N8 and me how to make the girls squirt. She was getting a drink at the bar and N8 went to ask her, and she showed us. I think I now know how.  took a photo with her. In my world, she's as big of a celerity as any Hollywood stars. I saw her recently at another shoot. She's the mistress of Public Disgrace site. I actually find her to be quite pleasant and smart. This is her job. She does it well. Two women, film makers, met up at the club and we hang out for a while and chatted. One woman was a writer and asked a lot of questions about me. I gave her straight answers and she was puzzled. She was 32 and not married. One woman pulled down her shirt and showed one of my guy friends her tits. A very attractive lady sitting on a bar stool. Many men were eying her. One of my guy friends went up and got her number. It pays to be tall, cute, the all American blue blood Clark Kent look alike. Another girl took a liking of another guy friend of mine. But then another guy liked her more. So the digits were exchanged but passed from one guy to another.

I make a good wing-man. Women asked me - "What's your story?" Why is everyone asking me "What's your story" these days? Can't I just maintain a slight air of mystery? Next time when someone asks me, I'd reply - "Which story would you like to hear?" Women continued to ask - "So which one of them is your boyfriend?" "How long have you guys been dating?" I always just answer, "none, not dating and I'm married." Why is it inconceivable for a married woman with children to hang out at a swanky bar on Friday night with single guy friends? Why can't married women be out with men other than her spouse? Why can't I be platonic friends with men? I can and I am. I have more women friends than guy friends. One woman asked, "Did you just summon them?" I did just text them. I texted several of my girlfriends too, but guys like bars, women don't. I didn't force them to be there, men came to bars, especially nice looking ones like the Armory club. Good scenery. So it does not take much for them to show up. Women don't like bars in general. So they don't respond to text.

To make a girl become more interested in one guy, who was actually really more into her than he let on, I walked up to the guy and he pulled me closer. Woman eyed him and then me suspiciously. I looked away and whispered to the guy friend, "Yep, she'll be calling you. You are not just a desperate loser who only was chasing her." Sure enough woman hugged him and asked him to call as she was leaving. Women like competitions. Most of them anyway. I am an exception. I suppose. I don't like men who flirt with other women. I actually don't care for players. I'm old fashioned that way.

Women, please don't hate me, I'm just here helping my friends score. Because, it's really hard to meet people these days. And men need all the help they can get.

Except me. I meet people, seems to be every other day. I meet them everywhere. I meet them each and every turn I take. I have never asked to be met. They just came into my life. They are women, men and they are people. I don't necessarily care one way or another, but when an unlikely friendship sprout it always excites me. I have not been in the business of making friends for over a decade.

I like old friends.

This is not a story about heart matters. This is a story about connecting with people and be open and tolerant and without expectations. This is a story about friendship and not love matters.

Guy friends always tell me about their love stories. I also learn from them. I learned that we all are searching for that someone to love us back, and we all search for that special someone whom we can't live without.

I learned that we truly behave differently with the person we care and love the most.

N8 said that he had a girl who sat at the passenger door and waited for him to get out, and open the door for her. He pushed the door open from inside and said there you go. He said that she's not that worth it. But for the woman he loved the most, he'd open doors, put jacket on her, and do anything and everything for her. I suppose that's love or at least gesture of love. N8 would put women in two categories, the "potential relationship" kind and the other. For the potential relationship kind, he takes it easy and pursues them but knows that he may fall in love with them. They often don't want him as much he wants them. Go figure.  For the other kind, they tend to be easy lays and they are always there, his fuck buddies. He has both. I imagine most single men have both kinds if they are of certain age.  They are always pursuing those who don't want to be caught.  They are always being pursued by the others. Well, isn't that universal truth?

My memory is not great. But in my recollection, there was only one guy who consistently opened the passenger side of door for me, helped me to put on my coat, held his arm out so that I could hold him and walk on uneven pavement, and always, always insisted on paying for every meal. We never talked much. We never discussed anything substantial. I never asked him many questions. Neither had he. I knew I'd do anything and everything for him. I believe he knew that of me. I knew everything I needed to know, and what he didn't tell me, or did tell me, never really mattered. My feelings for him taught me what love was. Love was just that. To do all those things that you'd ordinary never do with and for others.  To believe in the person blindly and love foolishly. I told a girlfriend of mine once that we all need to break away from that one person, whom we have given ultimate control to. We must. But we are idiots and we don't. We can't. We don't want to.

I may be older, but I knew what we'd do for those we adore. So next time when someone opens the passenger side of door for you, willingly, someone insists on paying for the meal, someone holds your jacket out as you put your arms through them, even though you don't need him to do any of it, know that it does not happen often, and perhaps you are the one who is worth his effort. Be thankful.

They don't make men like that any more.

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