OT: Being single at a kid's bday party

[NLeininger]

What happened to the boyfriend?

 

[SFlonghorngirl]

What happened to the boyfriend?

We decided to be best friends since I'm relocating to Austin. My heart isn't in it 100%. He's a great guy but I have my new business venture keeping me busy for the next couple of years.

 

[NLeininger]

We decided to be best friends since I'm relocating to Austin. My heart isn't in it 100%. He's a great guy but I have my new business venture keeping me busy for the next couple of years.

Congrats on the new business and coming back home. Sorry to hear about the break-up.

 

[SFlonghorngirl]

Congrats on the new business and coming back home. Sorry to hear about the break-up.

Thanks bro. He's still my best friend. He's coming to the UCLA game. Y'all can meet him at the tailgate.

 

[JimR]

What happened to the boyfriend?

I hope she dumped him in the Bay. He was, uh, not exactly a winner if her detailed description was accurate.

 

[Randolph Duke]

I have gone swimming in waters infested with phirranas and had no fear. I have photographed great white sharks without the protection of a safety cage. While on survival missions I have wrestled salmon from the grip of grizzly bears but I would NEVER approach a kid's birthday party without the assistance of hard liquor. I have a extra large hip flask that I only use when in the presence of little kids, when dealing with the family around the holidays and for the OU game.

 

[SFlonghorngirl]

I hope she dumped him in the Bay. He was, uh, not exactly a winner if her detailed description was accurate.

Awww, Jim! He's a great guy! So blessed to have him in my life! Any girl would be lucky to date him. UCLA and Stanford Law educated, looks like young Jim Harbaugh, very sweet, high integrity person. Only vices are he doesn't golf with me due to his accident, he's a vegetarian, not adapted to modern technology, and constantly late.

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[Bevo11]

Awww, Jim! He's a great guy! So blessed to have him in my life! Any girl would be lucky to date him. UCLA and Stanford Law educated, looks like young Jim Harbaugh, very sweet, high integrity person. Only vices are he doesn't golf with me due to his accident, he's a vegetarian, not adapted to modern technology, and constantly late.
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I fancy myself a student of human nature, but I'm struggling to reconcile the last sentence with "great guy". Let me see if I got this: outside his idiosyncrasies and general defects of character, he is a keeper?

 

[SFlonghorngirl]

I fancy myself a student of human nature, but I'm struggling to reconcile the last sentence with "great guy". Let me see if I got this: outside his idiosyncrasies and general defects of character, he is a keeper?

LOL...That's why we're best friends. It's the important stuff that counts says SHL. High character, integrity guy but his idiosyncrasies are adorable but drives me nuts! I'm sure I drive him crazy too! Can't wait for y'all to meet him at the UCLA game!

Love is complicated. Glad to be a free agent. No dating for a while.

 

[joeywa]

Am I the only one to experience this? I'm sure y'all have at one point in your life. And on top of that, they pry into your personal life why you're not married, etc...

In the future, have a little fun with these types of questions. Tell those nosy mommies that you're not sure if you're ready to get married because you're struggling with deciding if a career as a budding porn star holds merit, or if you should follow your heart and take that sales job with Adam and Eve selling adult novelty items. That will either get them to leave you alone or open a very interesting conversation that doesn't involve diapers, day care, kindergarten or fruit snacks.

 

[SFlonghorngirl]

In the future, have a little fun with these types of questions. Tell those nosy mommies that you're not sure if you're ready to get married because you're struggling with deciding if a career as a budding porn star holds merit, or if you should follow your heart and take that sales job with Adam and Eve selling adult novelty items. That will either get them to leave you alone or open a very interesting conversation that doesn't involve diapers, day care, kindergarten or fruit snacks.

Love it!

 

[JimR]

Awww, Jim! He's a great guy! So blessed to have him in my life! Any girl would be lucky to date him. UCLA and Stanford Law educated, looks like young Jim Harbaugh, very sweet, high integrity person. Only vices are he doesn't golf with me due to his accident, he's a vegetarian, not adapted to modern technology, and constantly late.
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And pays for nothing and freeloads at your house and is cheap....

I read all of your detailed descriptions of him a while back.

If he is the best you can do, SFLG, go for it. If not.....

The Bay awaits him.

Just sayin'

 

[SFlonghorngirl]

And pays for nothing and freeloads at your house and is cheap....I read all of your detailed descriptions of him a while back.

If he is the best you can do, SFLG, go for it. If not.....

The Bay awaits him.

Just sayin'

Good point! He is very cheap! LOL....

I totally overlooked that part! He's my best friend, probably always will until I meet the right guy.

 

[Juan]

......
If he is the best you can do, SFLG, go for it. If not.....

The Bay awaits him.

Just sayin'

Are you suggesting that he sleep with the fishes?

 

[Juan]

This is the same guy who busted through that door above^

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>No one is going to believe this but we just got stuck in an elevator. Ask <a href="https://twitter.com/BOBSLEDR">@BOBSLEDR</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/Crippsee">@Crippsee</a> who were there... <a href="http://t.co/Rwg57CBbUU">pic.twitter.com/Rwg57CBbUU</a></p>— Johnny Quinn (@JohnnyQuinnUSA) <a href="

https://twitter.com/JohnnyQuinnUSA/statuses/432893172084379649">February 10, 2014</a></blockquote><script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

 

[SFlonghorngirl]

This is the same guy who busted through that door above^


<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>No one is going to believe this but we just got stuck in an elevator. Ask <a onclick="_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'Outgoing', 'twitter.com', '/BOBSLEDR']);" href="https://twitter.com/BOBSLEDR">@BOBSLEDR</a> and <a onclick="_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'Outgoing', 'twitter.com', '/Crippsee']);" href="https://twitter.com/Crippsee">@Crippsee</a> who were there... <a onclick="_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'Outgoing', 't.co', '/Rwg57CBbUU']);" href="http://t.co/Rwg57CBbUU">pic.twitter.com/Rwg57CBbUU</a></p>— Johnny Quinn (@JohnnyQuinnUSA) <a onclick="_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'Outgoing', 'twitter.com', '/JohnnyQuinnUSA/statuses/432893172084379649']);" href="

https://twitter.com/JohnnyQuinnUSA/statuses/432893172084379649

Elevator not made of cardboard this time.

 

[Juan]

Elevator not made of cardboard this time.

I havent busted through a door in 20 years.

Are they all made of cardboard interiors now?

I also wonder if everything Russia buys is from China too?

 

[aowells]

For future reference, you can single handedly end a children's birthday party early. There are at least 3 topics which all mothers have a strong opinion on and enough people fall on either side of each issue that you will inevitably make things very awkward thereby causing people to leave early.

-School peanut policies: Why parents need to buck up and realize that their kids live in a peanut riddled world. End with a joke "A nut-free school is anything but..."

-Vaccinations: "Don't worry, anti-vaccinators are a self correcting problem - they will all die out with the next epedemic" or if you need to chat with a daytime television viewer "who do you trust with your children's health: Jenny McCarthy or Dr. Oz?".

-Breast feeding: either "formula fed children will have mental development issues", or "does the world really need more saggy mom-boobs?"

If that doesn't work, start pointing at mis-behaving children and suggest that "that one needs a hard spanking".

Bonus: You also might never be invited to another children's party!

Good point! He is very cheap! LOL....I totally overlooked that part! He's my best friend, probably always will until I meet the right guy.

Unsolicited personal advice: Glad you realize that he'll be gone when you meet the right guy. Why not just make a clean break right now?

Maintaining relationships with old flames is highly overrated. Now that I've been happily married for a long time my only regret about old girlfriends is that I didn't break them off sooner or cleaner. Those relationships that seemed hugely important at the time aren't even noteworthy in retrospect.

 

[doc longhorn]

Go to the middle of the party - tell everyone you have to leave for a huge yacht party and you are so grateful you don't have to have a baby sitter.

 

[Randolph Duke]

Go to the middle of the party - tell everyone you have to leave for a huge yacht party and you are so grateful you don't have to have a baby sitter.

She should go up to one of the mothers with kids and say "Your husband is quite a man. Do you know if he is seeing anyone?" Problem solved.