>Ooops. Don't like where THAT'S heading, especially with Kimmy watching.

Said in my best Donna voice, "What the He!!?!?"

LMAO.

Smile Gray...you got friends who've never met you that think you rock!

NC, you seem pretty articulate, pleasant, agreeable. Are you saying you haven't found the woman yet, or a woman?

If it's the latter, I find that hard to believe. Unless your standards or just too high? <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />

You sound like a real sweetheart. If you were in TX I would set you up with 1 of my girlfriends; she is noble (per your idiotville post), and conversationally gifted, and attractive. Just not where you are (wherever that is).

Sakes alive, what is wrong with these women?


~ StillLovingHim

Just when i thought I could live vicariously through you and your exploits. Don't you dare get discouraged Gray, I'm counting on you.

I'm going to wait until the final declaration before I make the big dating plunge. I have, however, found some prospective "potentials" that I'm keeping in my back pocket for just that time.

My approach may be somewhat different than yours Gray. I see you deftly tiptoeing through a light, articulate and humorous conversation smiling over a glass of red wine.

I'm going to get an ice pick and some duct tape.

> I'm going to get an ice pick and some duct tape.


Oooolala....do you thump your chest, too? ;-)

I swear...I'm never gonna look at some of you in the eyes if'n we ever meet...lmao!

Ice pick and duct tape......I'm blind now. My mental eye was just poked out.

SLH,

I would say I am articulate. I have a sense that I am also enjoyable company. I am honest, true, and don't play emotional games.

One would think I would be a great catch.

But it is kind of like the expert marksman who has no idea how to track game. We all have weaknesses and one of mine is reading the signs that the fairer sex gives off.

My STBX wife NEVER had to worry about me having an affair. Partly because of my integrity, but partly because I wouldn't know if a woman was interested in me if she bit me on the butt.

I am lacking somewhat in the social graces area and am generally considered big-hearted, but socially clumsy. My relationships tend to be more like "hold on for the ride" rather than "I'll sweep you off your feet." STBX's 1st OM was a REAL Cassanova. Probably should have worked on that skill in my M.

Any pointers? <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/cool.gif" alt="" />

NCW

LMAO, Binder <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

Binder, LMAO2.

You and I go to the same school in regards to the women-folk.

Graycloud is an old Indian word for "Rico Suave" <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/cool.gif" alt="" />

Dudes! No one says rico suave anymore!

'Sides, real women love wookies.

- Kimmy

Did someone say wookie?

(now, how do you spell the gargling sound they make?)

Ungowa!

-ol' 2long

URRRaaaGGGaaaHHHH!

That was a wookie trill for you 2long.

I wonder if our GC has gone nighty night?

- Kimmy

zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

shhhh! Guys! GC is snoring....quick! Someone slap a breathe rite strip on him!

(giggle)

No, no, no.

If he was snoring it would start with a capital zee and be hyphenated indicating a stattaco, sonorous, sinusoidal rhythm. Like this:

Z-z-z-z-z-z-z-z

If it is all lowercase, it is the sound of some kind of mechanical hum. Like a vibrator.

NCW

(Not believing I just said that. In either case, I'm sure not disturbing him. But perhaps I am simply disturbing.)

I just choked on my pretzel. Not enough Diet Coke in the world to wash that image away.

I really should get some work done....I mean paid for work...I am working really....another load of wash in counts as work, right?

Gray,

She just didn't show? How hurtful. Unless she was in the hospital, there is no excuse for rude, hurtful behavior, even if she did chicken out. You don't want another woman with low self esteem issues like your STBXW. You want someone with enough brass to NOT BE HURTFUL.

How high schoolish to just not show up and to not call the restaurant and leave a message at the very least.

Faithful, Gimble, Gray, SLH -

It does seem like WS behavior, again. First hostile act in a very long time, but we haven't really been together. I let Plan B drop, seemed silly to keep it up. I forgot it is supposed to be for life, to protect ones heart.

I've decided I'm not going to let him buy me out. I am under emotional duress and won't sign anything. It was purchased together for our home someday. Now I will treat it as a business agreement, an investment. He is stuck with me on the title. Should have made it work with me, now he must live with the consequences of his actions.

He still hasn't called by the way. And he has no cell & no computer. It's easy to not contact him, I have no idea where he is. He works on the road, changing motels & towns often.

If he is involved with someone else, and has just been trying to appease me until I signed it over then life will be fun this summer, won't it. Oh yeah, what fun over on the island.

Oh well Gray, atleast we can all swim together in this sea of misery.

Anyone have an extra life jacket?

Gray:

What did this gal look like? Any possibility that she might have been wearing Groucho glasses? Maybe she was sparrow in a disguise and she intended 2 stand you up? Think back. Can you prove, scientifically, that my hypothesis is 100% incorrect?

Weaver:

I can certainly understand you not wanting 2 sell your interest in the property like that. I don't buy his argument. If you have 2 sell it, I would think it would be sensible that you both sell at the same time, prefereably before anything's built on it.

Leaving you in the car while he tilts a beer? Sounds like my late FIL's behavior when my W was young. He was an alchoholic.

-ol' 2long

Unless she was in the hospital, there is no excuse for rude, hurtful behavior, even if she did chicken out

I have to agree with Weaver. Granted it's been a long time since I've been single (oh, Lord, I am dating myself), but doesn't everyone have a cell phone nowadays? C'mon. Hospital, dog died, car got stolen, whatever. I NEVER stood a guy up -- it just wasn't done. Even the ones I wasn't sure about -- they might have had this delectabley veiled redeeming character trait that I was unaware of at first, but what a joy to discover in them piece by piece. Give' em a chance, you know? They may just be a shimmering diamond in the rough. In fact, many of them were; just not my diamond. And they became wonderful friends.

I don't understand women today. Or maybe it's unmarried or young, never-been-committed women. Whatever.

Glad no one needed use of my antiquated lifeguarding skills last night. . . not only could I not find my life belt, but I fell asleep. LOL.

:: Please don't fire me ::

Hoping today is better for everyone, especially you guys, Gray, Faithful, 2long and Weaver.

You all have a piece of my heart.


~ StillLovingHim

Graycloud,
I have no idea why she didn't show, and you don't either.
I suggest you find out.

I made an appointment once and wrote it on the wrong day. I thought *I* had been stood up, but it was the other way around.

That is probably not the answer at all, and she may have very bad manners, BUT what would it hurt to try to find out?

Anything you could learn might help in the future.

I have another poem for you. I don't think you need it, because I think you are finally traveling again (not stuck.) It probably won't hurt - so here it is,

[IF]

If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you
But make allowance for their doubting too,
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or being hated, don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise:

If you can dream--and not make dreams your master,
If you can think--and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools:

If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it all on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breath a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on!"

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with kings--nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you;
If all men count with you, but none too much,
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And--which is more--you'll be a Man, my son!

--Rudyard Kipling

All the best -
SS

Hi Weaver,

I think you were being set up.

I don't know the way things were, but if you were always 100% there, and it was he that was always looking around........for him to say sell it to me, and you'll get it anyway doesn't make sense. It only makes sense if he was plotting. I vote against him.

Was he like that before? Was he good at ~acting~ to get his way?

Very soryy for your pain. Wish more could be done to exorcise it.
As usual, I come up short on words to express the feelings.

SS