Last Sunday I went to the town pool. Different year, same conversation. Here sits everyone who wanted to be able to afford a house with a pool but decided that "giving up" was a viable option to having to work and pay for one. Every damn year the same ppl show up, with their freshly painted toenails and their bag of pessimisms concerning the world and why they just can't seem to get what they want.
One lady told me she couldn't find a man who she considered to be good enough, so she decided to "be" the man. This meant, to her, that she walked around saying " I don't need anything from anybody, and refusing to let ppl open the door for her. It also meant that when someone spent the night, she then told them, after they were finished having sex that they would have to leave. "Nope, can't have them staying over", she said. They might want to hang around for cold cuts. I said, well why didn't you just go out to eat. And she said, "they asked for cold cuts because they wanted her to feed them without them having to spend any money".
I suggested, maybe they were hungry and she should suggest going out to eat. But she assured me that this was not the case.
Every single year she shows up with the same nasty attitude, the same disdain for herself, and a neverending supply of reiterated tales of the long haired Spanish boy who cut his hair and how by doing so, cut off the only thing about him that was ever very interesting.!
"If I can't have what I want, then I just won't have anything at all!" So be it.
I said, " let me give you some good girl to girl advice". Girl being the joke of the day, since I am fast approaching 5o and she is way ahead of me. "Lower your standards, all the way to the ground, take what you can get temporarily, since life is temporary, and as of right now, you have nothing". "Have some fun without expecting him to be "the one", which doesn't exist." Then when you're done, say goodbye, and move on to the next victim.
This year she showed up almost in a state of suicide. Not because she took my advice, but because she didn't . She is one of the loneliest ppl I know.
She also refuses to get into the pool. "Water's too dirty for me", she says, while sucking on her Marlboros!
Some ppl are addicted to being "disappointed".
Personally, I'd rather be addicted to sex! At least I can get some pleasure out of it.!
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