Journal FortKnox's Journal: I was born 10 years too early. 45
That's right. I should be excited that my 17th birthday will be coming up this October, but noooo... 27, married, and have a child.
It never fails. Wife is gone for a few days, so I go run out to do the chores. Grocery shopping, Home Depot, etc... What happens? I get hit on by highschool and college girls (yes, plural! Like 4 in the grocery store alone!). My once 'nerdy look' back in high school is the popular thing now-a-days, and that is simply unfair. And, of course, no one is around, so my wife doesn't believe me when I tell her about it (hey, I'm a nerd, would you believe a nerd getting hit on by young girls?). I just need to walk with my hand up so everyone can see 'the ring' or something.
Oh well, I'm just sour cause I don't sleep well without my wife next to me and there isn't much to do when I can't come home and play with Joey.
So how was everyone elses weekend?
Update: You all suck. Can't you just say "Geez, FK, you must look hot now!" instead of "Its not your LOOKS, its your RING" (or whatever) :-P
It never fails. Wife is gone for a few days, so I go run out to do the chores. Grocery shopping, Home Depot, etc... What happens? I get hit on by highschool and college girls (yes, plural! Like 4 in the grocery store alone!). My once 'nerdy look' back in high school is the popular thing now-a-days, and that is simply unfair. And, of course, no one is around, so my wife doesn't believe me when I tell her about it (hey, I'm a nerd, would you believe a nerd getting hit on by young girls?). I just need to walk with my hand up so everyone can see 'the ring' or something.
Oh well, I'm just sour cause I don't sleep well without my wife next to me and there isn't much to do when I can't come home and play with Joey.
So how was everyone elses weekend?
Update: You all suck. Can't you just say "Geez, FK, you must look hot now!" instead of "Its not your LOOKS, its your RING" (or whatever)
What? What is this? (Score:2)
Re:What? What is this? (Score:2)
Re:What? What is this? (Score:2)
I remember being in high school and all the hottest girls were dating older guys. I remember thinking, "How do I attract these girls?" Apparently the answer is graduate college. :-)
We were just talking about how to attract women over in my journ [slashdot.org]
Blergh, the weekend. (Score:2)
I actually got to take some of Saturday off, had lunch with my parents who are in town and went to a festival. It was a good break from the tedium of work. Too many days in a row without a solid day off makes me grumpy. And having tonsilitis..
Oh, don't you know about 'the ring'? (Score:2)
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Re:Oh, don't you know about 'the ring'? (Score:1)
It's like a slut magnet.
Puppies and little kids work well, too.
Of course, what happens once you start talking to them will really show your true roots.
You'll get all tongue tied and talk jibberish.
Your wife is wise. She has nothing to worry about.
Re:Oh, don't you know about 'the ring'? (Score:1)
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I used to go bar hopping with a buddy of mine and we'd go from bar to bar and he'd always get hit on by slutty women, and I didn't, at least not nearly as much. He was married (I wasn't and have never been), and kept the ring on. So I experimented. I put his ring on, and went to the next bar and then *I* got hit on by the slutty women. Go figure.
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at least they were (probably) really female (Score:2)
So how was everyone elses weekend?
Mine [slashdot.org] was... interesting. Well, at least to me.
weekend? there was a weekend? (Score:2)
Look. You've got it pretty good. You're twentyseven and have a wife and kid. I'll be 27 on the 24th... and i'm single with cat. No college. No car. And two disabling illnesses. *laugh* the thing is, i'm not bitter, but have some perspective, we've got it pretty good, and at least you've got company and your health!! i hear people complaining about not being 17... you know what? I'd pay money to not be seventeen again. Even if i had the health that went with
Re:weekend? there was a weekend? (Score:2)
- Have 2 death certificates (stopped breathing for more that 15 minutes twice)
- Have severe peanut allergies (see previ
Perhaps I can be of some assistance? (Score:1)
I get hit on a good bit by women where ever I go, but that's how I roll.
Anyway, the other side of makes you feel good is also kinda freaked out. Hmm, am I attracting these kids for some other reason? Am I projecting a "desperate will hang with kids 10 years my junior" attitude? Probably not.
Oh, and it probably was you, but it was also that ring too...more than likely you were viewed as "safe" and they were just being little jackals pract
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A Feminine Perspective (Score:2)
And here's another idea -- there's something about marriage, either being married or talking to someone who's married, that just kind of draws a nice boundary. As a married woman, I am a LOT more comfortable being more friendly (some might say flirtatious, but that's really not my intention) with guys that I never wou
Re:A Feminine Perspective (Score:1)
Good point. New rules are in order:
1) Women must tell you up front that they will never ever sleep with you when you start talking to them - conversation may or may not continue after that.
2) Women must make it blaringly obvious that they are hitting on a man. Talking about the California recall does not count as be
Re:A Feminine Perspective (Score:2)
Hey -- never say never!!
2) Women must make it blaringly obvious that they are hitting on a man.
Like this [slashdot.org]? Or this [slashdot.org]?
3) Men will never use lame pickup lines. Pick-up lines that are not lame include, "Nice ass" and "Hi. Are you legal?"
So what in the world DOES qualify as lame, then?!
Please delete this JE (Score:2)
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Simple math. How many kids do you want? How far apart do you want them? After 32/35 its really tough to have a child.
So lets say you want 3 children, 3 years apart. If you want to have the last one at 35, then that'd mean you have to start 'trying' at 28 at the absolute latest (29 you have the first, 32 the second, 35 the third). If you want the last one by 32, you should start at 25 at the latest.
Now, you
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So lets say you want 3 children, 3 years apart. If you want to have the last one at 35, then that'd mean you have to start 'trying' at 28 at the absolute latest (29 you have the first, 32 the second, 35 the third). If you want the last one by 32, you should start at 25 at the latest.
This is exactly how I think, so that makes it very hard to actually cope being nearly 27. And the people
Re:Please delete this JE (Score:1)
And that is where you are wrong. Yes, indeed, technically a 60 year old can father a new baby. However, look at it from the responsibility side: think of it when the kid will be in it's puberty. Are you going the be mentally able to handle it when you are already (let's say) 55? Do you really want a 18 year old on your back that you have to pay college for w
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At work there are people who are having their first child in their late 30's or early 40's. Also I know plenty of people who's parents were fairly old when they were born.
At least in my part of the US it is not uncommon for people to have children fairly late.
Also assuming you take care of yourself at all being in your 40's, 50's, 60's, 70's, or even 80's doesn't mean wha
Re:Please delete this JE (Score:1)
No, re-read the post. I did not say, nor imply that. Usually when we talk about "older parent" we are not talking about "first child". I was *explicitly* talking about first child at later age. I indeed know nobody who had his first child in the late 30ties, or even 40ties. I do know people who had children at that age, but it wasn't the "first child".
On top of tha
Geez, FK, you must look hot now (Score:1)
Weekend was good, outlook not-so-good (Score:2)
Unfortunately, I'm working this week, and the temperature here is due to hit 35C around Wednesday. Bad enough that we don't have proper air-conditioning in the office (the water-cooler is my Saviour!), but I hear that the rail network is on a go-slow because they're afraid of the
girls hitting on guys at the home depot? (Score:2)
Oh well, just consider yourself lucky, and do something cool with the little bump in self esteem.
I'm married, 29, and don't recall the last time a chick hit on me...
marriage and hitting on (Score:2)
Married guys have a lack of lack of confidence.
yes, that's an intentional double negation. It's the same reason the jerks got hit on in high school. They were confident. We were (typically, not universally) more
Actually (Score:2)
Maybe i'm just venting (more like ACTUALLY venting) but I think there can be worse things going on....so cheer up!
Oh, and my weekend was alright
I just checked (Score:2)
Impossible! (Score:1)
So, NO, it is not the nerdy looks at all. It *must* be something else. Don't ask me what, for I don't know, but it's *NOT* the nerdy looks.
Don't fucking complain will ya, I mean you've got a wife and a kid at that age. That's the thing you *should* be having at that age.
East vs West: rematch (Score:2)
I know some people here are from Ohio, or have been there, so what I say may make sense to them.
Here is the situation. Guy living in a climate where all precipitation is in winter or 2 inches spead out all summer . . . . visits east where it rains once or twice DAILY and everything is green. The dirt even seemed green. Probably reflections from the vast jungle around the