Running from Cougars?

Brother Filthie has a run in with some older, single women.

Bout a year back I took my niglet pup over to crazy Mary’s to get her shots. Mary had two friends over while we were there. I was caught totally by surprise. Within 5 minutes I knew her girl friends were divorced from extremely shitty husbands. I knew they were all on antidepressants to ward off the fiendish oppression of a world that delighted in destroying women. They both had cats. (Mary had dogs). And they were both desperately lost and lonely. They looked at me – 59 year old FOWG (Fat Old White Guy)…like I was fresh meat. They were flirty and dippy. It creeped me the hell out and left as soon as politely possible…

Glen Filthie

I run into this quite a bit. But I’m not a FWOG, I’m fit. But one of the things I’ve noticed, which has been going on since the summer, is women being chatty and friendly with me. Even if I’m riding the bike on the trail, they wave. Literally, smile and wave. I attributed it to I’m an older gentleman and not thirsty whatsoever.

A very small part of me wanted to tell the women that they were stereotypes that guys like me laugh at. The world is filled with women exactly like them. They are boring in their predictability, and I have seen it all from a very safe distance. They’re on psychotropic drugs. They have cats. Their “chit head ex’s” are all mostly just normal goofs that got sandbagged by a surprise divorce and their biggest sin is being happier without their  former wives. The rude jokes write themselves… but these women have never heard any of them.

Glen Filthie

That paragraph made me belly laugh. I’m different in that I will absolutely chat with these women, even meet them for lunch or Starbucks. But he’s right in that it takes virtually no time to catch onto their pathologies. I’m a good listener, and they usually volunteer why it was they came to be single. I just smile when it arrives. The money line there was – “Their “chit head ex’s” are all mostly just normal goofs that got sandbagged by a surprise divorce and their biggest sin is being happier without their  former wives“. Yup. Am one, know quite a few.

And before I wrote this, Nikolai had a link that applies here, titled The Lure of Divorce.

I didn’t expect the end, to be honest. I actually didn’t expect to make it through the whole piece. I could feel the yammering in my head.

So add her to Filthie’s women above, and ponder – is that how the hamster wheel is running in their heads? The woman is batshit crazy and was all over the road. But is that the thought process women go through?

As soon as we’d had a child, he had been shunted into the role of breadwinner without choosing it or claiming it

Really?

It’s called being a father. It’s what you buy into when you become one. Every guy I know knew that instinctively. I didn’t see that as a problem. As a matter of fact, I consider the time I worked to support my wife and kids at home as the happiest time of my life.

Later on she babbles about whether or not she put herself in a prison having to raise her kids.

Hoofah!….Bat.Shit.Crazy.

Poor dude.

New Girlfriend was telling me about her step-daughter (she’s widowed), having an episode of crazy like the woman in that article (and in Filthie’s). After listening to the nonsensical complaining, she leaned in and said “That’s because you are lazy”, drawing the word out like “laaaazeeee!. Cracked me up. I don’t think I’ve ever met another person with such a sense of clarity and self awareness. We’ve hit the three month mark, and I’ve yet to get a whiff of crazy.

Some of us are luckier than others, I suppose.