Yesterday was entertaining.
Three married women were hanging out at The Bar, and we got to talking, as often happens. After I got done with my shift, I joined them on the other side of the bar, and we talked more. And it was hilarious.
The Birthday Girl (50) was convinced that I should pursue a relationship with my coworker, that we were soulmates. This despite the fact that said coworker and I view each other more as brother and sister. Yes, she's gorgeous (really, really gorgeous), but I have known her long enough to know that she is completely nutso, and not always in a good way, and even if I were so inclined to pursue said coworker, my chances with her, absence the influence of drugs or alcohol, would be somewhere around zero.
So the four of us went out barhopping, and at one point, met up with my friend Little Red. The Birthday Girl and the Cute Blonde (38, looked 25) had trouble comprehending why I was not pursuing anything with her, despite both of our insistence that we are just fine being just friends. Apparently such an arrangement didn't really make sense to them.
Now this whole time, I found Cute Blonde to be, well, cute. And I even told her at one point that, had she not been happily married (she got married in high school and is still married to the guy), I would have been hitting on her, as she was so completely my type. (Short, blonde, cute, sweet.) But she was, so I didn't. That did not stop Birthday Girl and Daisy Duke from trying to get the two of us to hook up, despite the fact that Cute Blonde didn't want any part of cheating on her husband, and I didn't want to mess with a successful marriage. Apparently Birthday Girl and Daisy Duke, both married, had no problem making out with various guys, and wanted Cute Blonde to join in the fun.
All in all, an interesting evening. And near the end of the evening, a bit of a revelation. Cute Blonde and I left the others for a while, and were enjoying a drink and some conversation on the balcony of a Duval STreet bar, and talking about the ridiculousness of the whole thing and her friends. And she told me that, quite frankly, I was definitely a "temptation" to her, and from the way she said it, I think the first one in her life. I was utterly flattered.
Who knew? Apparently I'm tempting. Now if only I could figure out how to be such to the single girls!
Three married women were hanging out at The Bar, and we got to talking, as often happens. After I got done with my shift, I joined them on the other side of the bar, and we talked more. And it was hilarious.
The Birthday Girl (50) was convinced that I should pursue a relationship with my coworker, that we were soulmates. This despite the fact that said coworker and I view each other more as brother and sister. Yes, she's gorgeous (really, really gorgeous), but I have known her long enough to know that she is completely nutso, and not always in a good way, and even if I were so inclined to pursue said coworker, my chances with her, absence the influence of drugs or alcohol, would be somewhere around zero.
So the four of us went out barhopping, and at one point, met up with my friend Little Red. The Birthday Girl and the Cute Blonde (38, looked 25) had trouble comprehending why I was not pursuing anything with her, despite both of our insistence that we are just fine being just friends. Apparently such an arrangement didn't really make sense to them.
Now this whole time, I found Cute Blonde to be, well, cute. And I even told her at one point that, had she not been happily married (she got married in high school and is still married to the guy), I would have been hitting on her, as she was so completely my type. (Short, blonde, cute, sweet.) But she was, so I didn't. That did not stop Birthday Girl and Daisy Duke from trying to get the two of us to hook up, despite the fact that Cute Blonde didn't want any part of cheating on her husband, and I didn't want to mess with a successful marriage. Apparently Birthday Girl and Daisy Duke, both married, had no problem making out with various guys, and wanted Cute Blonde to join in the fun.
All in all, an interesting evening. And near the end of the evening, a bit of a revelation. Cute Blonde and I left the others for a while, and were enjoying a drink and some conversation on the balcony of a Duval STreet bar, and talking about the ridiculousness of the whole thing and her friends. And she told me that, quite frankly, I was definitely a "temptation" to her, and from the way she said it, I think the first one in her life. I was utterly flattered.
Who knew? Apparently I'm tempting. Now if only I could figure out how to be such to the single girls!
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