Punk'd!

FEMALEATLAS: "So how about this girl you were set up with?"

Mo: "Well, I really wasn't set up."

FEMALEATLAS: "True, from the way it sounds, you were punk'd!"

Mo: "Ha ha, very funny."


Yeah, I was wing man for a night. I took one for the team. Sadly, the rest of the team didn't fare so well either. I mean either one of us could have probably ended up with a long-term relationship by the end of the night with nothing more than a simple request. It just simply was not going to happen.

I told KAYA before we left, "This is how great stories start out." If nothing else, it was a good story, and we ate at a beautiful restaurant. The ESPN Zone is nice in Baltimore, and I was reminded why people who are indoctrinated are annoying. Other than that, I think I'll pass on round two with those two. They were nice girls... that's what I'm sure KAYA's friend also told him about his "date" when it was set up.

After playing wing man for the night, I stopped to see FEMALEATLAS at her other job. I actually stopped to tip her sister, and get a beer, but as I pulled in I remebered... we have a bet to reconcile.

I believe that the Ladder Theory http://www.laddertheory.com is, for the most part, correct. It is the closest thing to reality that I've ever read. So, while talking at work the other day, the theory gets brought up. FEMALEATLAS doesn't buy it. Problem is, two other co-workers, both female, agree with me overall. So, we bet on her friend at the other job. She says he would NEVER want to sleep with her, "He changed my diapers." I say she's crazy. He'd sleep with her if given the opportunity with no repercussions. The only challenge in my mind is getting him to be honest.

I walk in, and, as we're talking, ATLAS brings it up. She pulls her friend in and wants me to basically ask the guy. Well I've never met him. How do you walk up to a married guy and say,"If you weren't married and she wasn't married, would you sleep with her?"

Apparently, just that way. I beat around the bush for a while when he finally asked if I was basically asking just that question from above his answer was quick: "Well yeah! That was simple!"

ATLAS: "But, you changed my diapers!!!!!!!" Incredulous.

Friend: "Yeah, and I'd do it again if given the opportunity."

Life's hilarious like that sometimes. Man, that was a good FREE beer, and the dream she had as a result of all of it was worth more than a keg of beer.




As much fun as all that was, I came home to some very sobering news. I have spoken on this blog of, and sometimes, more specifically, to CALYN. She emailed to say that things are not well in her life, and that to cap off a horrible stretch of time (to put it mildly) she will be leaving to provide relief efforts in Iraq for 3 weeks. I'd normally be fine with that, because that's kind of in her job description, I guess, but this is different. Very different. She's going to Samarra next week. I don't know if you keep up with the news, but Samarra is not a nice place as far as I can tell.

Maybe I'm wrong about the city, and I pray that I am, but what I know I'm not wrong about is the way I feel. I know, I know... it's different when you actually know and care about someone who's there. I need to say nothing about that to CALYN, she knows better than all of us. The difference here is a matter of position.

I'm in a weird one. Maybe I shouldn't care, but I do. I mean, I've never actually met her before, so why should I really be concerned if she's here tomorrow? It doesn't matter - I am. I don't exactly know why I am, but I'm very concerned about her well-being.

I care for CALYN very much. As a matter of fact, feelings, at this point, are something I can't exactly describe. It has a lot more to do with technology than anything else.

We are at an age, now, when we can communicate with people anywhere in the world with the click of a mouse and a couple of keystrokes. This has stripped away all questions of appearance and allowed us all to judge a person by what they have to say... and I like what she has to say - a lot. We may not even agree on everything, and we don't, but we respect what the other has to say regardless. In our conversations, I believe she has made me a better person merely by association, much less by way of advice.

So, this leads me to where I am now: at a place where I'm not close enough to know if she's not ok because I have no way of finding out - yet close enough to be worried to death about her well-being, and I'm very worried. If something should happen I will, honestly, be completely devastated.

There are things that I will ponder indefinitely. Not the least of which, will be what in the world to do with this gift I have for her? lol.

KAYA tells me I think too much, and maybe he's right, but no one ever said that I felt too much and that's more the problem than anything right now.

CALYN, if you read this before you go, please be careful. I know that this has been an extremely difficult time in your life and I know that you hope to find some answers to questions that may never be answered. I also know that if you don't do this you'll always wonder about everything that you could have learned there. So, go, experience and try to enjoy, but don't let this distract you from what you've already accomplished and hope to yet accomplish.


"...our lives are like spider webs, and some of us are like flies stuck in the same spider web over and over again. Not put there by their own notions but trapped with only our own knowledge hearts and minds to allow us to escape." -CALYN

I know you're stuck, but give it time. You'll never feel the same, but you will feel better.

That's the problem... lol, time takes so much.... time.

Hang in there. Report in and make sure I know you're ok, at least physically. lol. I'll talk to you when you get back if not before.

LYTD


Take care,

-Mo