4.01.2004
Is He Jiving With My Lady?
Why is it that guys always go out of their way for women, in general? I swear this is something I've noticed. Now I've been around and I know how I usually get treated. So how come, since my recent engagement and me going everywhere with my fiancée, I get treated differently? At least when she's driving!
We pull up to a parking lot at a Philly hospital to go visit my brother and after spending a few minutes being lost, you can imagine we were elated to find this secret entrance, located behind lots of scaffolding and looking like a building doorway. How could we have found this so-called entrance? Of course that prompts me for another article.
As I was saying, the parking attendant seemed quite taken with my fiancée, who happened to be driving, as he kept adding generous amounts of fluff information to his answers, turning them into veritable essays. One of the questions she had was "Is this the parking lot for the hospital?" I added "We were lost for a few minutes looking for this place!" I'm a man. I have to attack so that's what I did
His face lit up when he saw her, by the way - not an uncommon reaction for guys, including me. So he proceeds to explain what the buildings around are, and how there's construction - because that HAD to be hard for us to notice, driving around for 15 minutes and all. He also talked about how the parking lot was for families but he'd let us in because blah blah.
He's talking and padding what he's saying with so many unnecessary, my head was spinning. Fluff, fluff, fluff. Meanwhile I'm feeling like I need to be defending her somehow. Telling him to buzz off, trying to end the conversation... I felt like it was my duty to create a break in the line of events and start a new event: like, leaving. It didn't work. He wanted to give a full debrief on how he was going to help us.
Now, before we actually found the entrance to the underground lot, we were in another parking lot making a u-turn when we pulled up to this man asking for the lot. You know what happened, right? His face lit up when he saw her, and once we asked our question, he proceeded to talk about ... the buildings around, how he was associated with them, and our various options, all seemingly behind or inside the school, as he continually pointed to it.
He kept offering a shorter version of his explanation every time my fiancée said "Thank you!” The shortest I remember sounded like "Take the path around to the left, through the parking lot, make 2 rights to square the block and it's on your left!" So she says "Thank you!" and he says "Path around to the left, through parking, go round the block, it's on the left" "Thank you!" "Left path, through parking, 2 rights, on left" "Thank you!" "Left, to parallel street, at corner" "Thank you!" "Straight, at second light!" "Thank you!" "There!" At this point, I had to step in and say "Thank you!"
While all men love to do a little extra for the pretty ladies, men with pretty ladies should rejoice in that. Every man wants every other man to want what he has, whatever it may be. But does that include relationships? Perhaps not, thus the routine unease when another man jives away at your girl. You may trust her fully, but it's not about that, is it?
Some say "You're from Mars!" but I claim Jersey all the way. I'm sure she enjoys it, anyway. The one thing I KNOW about women, is that they LOVE attention from men. It started with the fathers, so blame those who spoil their daughters to high heaven! Not that I wouldn't if we should be blessed with girls. So, she loves the attention while I'm split on it.
I'll just keep smiling. After all, I can always say to myself "Well she's coming home with me!"
We pull up to a parking lot at a Philly hospital to go visit my brother and after spending a few minutes being lost, you can imagine we were elated to find this secret entrance, located behind lots of scaffolding and looking like a building doorway. How could we have found this so-called entrance? Of course that prompts me for another article.
As I was saying, the parking attendant seemed quite taken with my fiancée, who happened to be driving, as he kept adding generous amounts of fluff information to his answers, turning them into veritable essays. One of the questions she had was "Is this the parking lot for the hospital?" I added "We were lost for a few minutes looking for this place!" I'm a man. I have to attack so that's what I did
His face lit up when he saw her, by the way - not an uncommon reaction for guys, including me. So he proceeds to explain what the buildings around are, and how there's construction - because that HAD to be hard for us to notice, driving around for 15 minutes and all. He also talked about how the parking lot was for families but he'd let us in because blah blah.
He's talking and padding what he's saying with so many unnecessary, my head was spinning. Fluff, fluff, fluff. Meanwhile I'm feeling like I need to be defending her somehow. Telling him to buzz off, trying to end the conversation... I felt like it was my duty to create a break in the line of events and start a new event: like, leaving. It didn't work. He wanted to give a full debrief on how he was going to help us.
Now, before we actually found the entrance to the underground lot, we were in another parking lot making a u-turn when we pulled up to this man asking for the lot. You know what happened, right? His face lit up when he saw her, and once we asked our question, he proceeded to talk about ... the buildings around, how he was associated with them, and our various options, all seemingly behind or inside the school, as he continually pointed to it.
He kept offering a shorter version of his explanation every time my fiancée said "Thank you!” The shortest I remember sounded like "Take the path around to the left, through the parking lot, make 2 rights to square the block and it's on your left!" So she says "Thank you!" and he says "Path around to the left, through parking, go round the block, it's on the left" "Thank you!" "Left path, through parking, 2 rights, on left" "Thank you!" "Left, to parallel street, at corner" "Thank you!" "Straight, at second light!" "Thank you!" "There!" At this point, I had to step in and say "Thank you!"
While all men love to do a little extra for the pretty ladies, men with pretty ladies should rejoice in that. Every man wants every other man to want what he has, whatever it may be. But does that include relationships? Perhaps not, thus the routine unease when another man jives away at your girl. You may trust her fully, but it's not about that, is it?
Some say "You're from Mars!" but I claim Jersey all the way. I'm sure she enjoys it, anyway. The one thing I KNOW about women, is that they LOVE attention from men. It started with the fathers, so blame those who spoil their daughters to high heaven! Not that I wouldn't if we should be blessed with girls. So, she loves the attention while I'm split on it.
I'll just keep smiling. After all, I can always say to myself "Well she's coming home with me!"
