Christmas tradition, interrupted...

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Christmas tradition, interrupted...
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Tue, 12-13-2005 - 11:34am

(This is a bit of a long story but hopefully it's slightly entertaining)

Last night, as we have every year for the past 4 years, two friends and I met to have a couple drinks and exchange Christmas gifts. We always meet at the same place- a dive bar in a nice neighborhood- we are safe there, we avoid crowds, we can take all the time we need, dress however we want, and not get hit on by anyone. It's a good time.

Well, about two hours into the night, our little tradition was interrupted. Two older gentleman (easily fifty years old, I think one may have been pushing sixty) approached our table and shortly after they helped themselves to a chair, the waitress comes over with five Rum and Cokes. Oh how thoughtful, they'd ordered us all drinks before they even came over. Forget the fact that none of us were even drinking Rum and Cokes and this was a smooth move, by Colorado standards. But still, ew! No thanks.

So now I have a fifty-ish Hispanic-Italian (who would later confide to me that he wished he was 100% Italian- WTF??) on my right and a sixty-ish I've-seen-a-lot-of-golf-courses-in-my-day very tan man on my left. As our new tablemates began to raise their glasses, my friends and I just sort of looked at each other in disbelief. What do we do? Do we ask them to leave? Do we raise our glasses, too? Well, we raised our glasses (our original drinks) along with them and as everyone took a drink, I wondered if we should be telling them to get lost or if we could get some entertainment out of this. After a brief whisper conference, we decided to let them stay for a bit.

Entertaining it was. In the interest of time and post length, I'll try to make a long story short. After quick introductions I learned that our Italian mobster-wannabe (yes, there was a gold pinky ring) was Frank and our club house pro was Tim. Tim had never married but had kids in their thirties (see, told you, too old!), travels extensively, and was a real estate broker who only handled properties in the two million and above range. I'm so impressed, as you can imagine. Frank was a 15 year veteran of divorce, has a teenage son in another state, drives a Jag and is an architect who now deals mainly with artificial turf in professional sporting complexes. Again, so impressed. It didn't take long for Tim and Frank to figure out that I was the only unmarried girl at the table and so, as you might guess, their attention turned to me. In the span of about forty-five minutes, I was "enticed" with stories of luxury and travel, of fast cars and sparkly jewelry, and romantic ski lodges and beach houses. As I bounced back and forth in conversation (my married girlfriends so kindly distracting one long enough for the other to get his two cents in, or two million, rather) I realized how life could be if I were one of "those" women. One who could take advantage of a wealthy, older man and have every material thing she wanted and only have to do a few things in return. First of all, ew! Second, I just can't do it. Do I want to sail in the Caribbean for 10 days on a sixty foot yacht? Of course I do. But not this way. No. Never this way. I just can't do it. And this was just one of many "offers" tossed my way. I've never experienced something like this and now that I know what it's like, I hope to never again. However, as I get older my married girlfriends tell me this will happen more and more. Apparently I'm "still young enough to be trophy-quality but old enough to know how to act". Boy, and here I thought I was having a hard time counting blessings this week. Trophy, score!

So as I made the drive home I thought about the irony of life and how I could go weeks, months even, without getting asked out on and then this is what I get. This? That's what made me want to share this with you gals (and possibly guys). Have you ever experienced this? Or have you or someone you know taken advantage of a similar situation?

Anyway, I was just curious. At the very least, I suppose I should be flattered. By the way, we drank the free drinks. After all, these guys were loaded!! ;-)




Edited 12/13/2005 12:31 pm ET by lesleylou
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Tue, 12-13-2005 - 1:59pm
Lesley,
Where is this bar at? I want to go there and meet these men!!! Just kidding. I'm in Colorado also and don't want to run into them!
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Tue, 12-13-2005 - 2:07pm

I'm guessing the College Inn. :)

Yes, this has happened to me, too. Not quite the same way, but I agree - don't want it that way.

AJ, enjoying life with C.

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Tue, 12-13-2005 - 2:23pm
Stay away from North Colorado Springs. And any old men with gold pinky rings or a too-dark tan. :-)
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Tue, 12-13-2005 - 2:24pm
Yeah, quite the story to pass down to the kiddies! Yikes!
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Tue, 12-13-2005 - 5:08pm

I was just thinking about this last night.

I was channel surfing, and VH1 had Fabulous Lives of Celebrity Wives. All I could do was wonder how Melania Trump can bring herself to kiss The Donald - much less have sex with him.


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Tue, 12-13-2005 - 5:20pm

Because her hand is in his back pocket searching for his wallet....

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Tue, 12-13-2005 - 10:57pm

I think it's the "take care of me" sydrome.

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Wed, 12-14-2005 - 8:52am
Ew! I hadn't thought of that before! Must be true love :)
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Wed, 12-14-2005 - 9:01am

I think you're right, I should have been more abrasive to encourage them to leave.

What's now more creepy is that this guy somehow managed to look at my cell phone and get my number off of it and has now called me and left a voicemail. Thank God he doesn't know anything other than my name. It's kind of scary. Why are there so many creeps out there?

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Wed, 12-14-2005 - 4:07pm

Re: The Donald...

Not enough money in the world.

AJ, enjoying life with C.