domingo, abril 20, 2008

What is wrong with you?

- When someone gets married, all bets are off. We become the enemy.
- Married women know we can have sex any time, with anyone.
- We can?

- Wedding rings come off, you know.
If you're single, you are not to be trusted.
- Not all married women feel that way.
- You're right, not all. The ones who don't fear you, pity you.
- That's not true.
- Are you telling me you haven't gotten those 'poor single you' looks?
- I hate those.
- Ok, yes, I have. When you're the only single person at a party, they look at you like you're...
- A loser?
- Leper.
- Whore.
- Exactly.
- I'm telling you. Married people are the enemy!

Was she right? Were we enemies? Is there a secret cold war between marrieds and singles?

I love my single friends.
But now that I'm married I don't see them as much as I used to.
It's too painful.
They remind me of how desperate I used to be.
It's all about what you want.
Some people, like me, choose to grow up, face reality and get married.
And other choose to, what? Live an empty, haunted life of stunted adolescence.

- It's not just cold war, it's a battle.
And it isn't just straight people.
Every gay guy I know is runnig off to Hawaii, putting on a cafta, reciting vows and feeling superior to me.
I miss the old times when everyone was alone.

Sex And The City
Bay of Married Pigs.