Men

I will first start this post by saying that I love men. My best friend is a man. My travel buddy is a man.

But I had time to think in the eternal traffic on the ride home and here is my list of beyond puzzling, lame men-isms.

"I find you intimidating." This was said by a man five minutes before our third date. By intimidating he actually meant that I was taller than him. I didn't have a growth spurt between dates 1 and 2. Ok.

"So do you want to have children?" Normally that's not a bad question. On a blind date within the first 5 minutes is really wrong.

"I love that you have your own life." Said by a man who promptly starting to complain that I was too busy for him. What he meant was that my busy life was fine, until it became clear that I was not sitting around twiddling my thumbs when he was not around.

"Oh, you have cats." I knew this one from work. Pictures of said cats were on my desk. They came up in conversation. I pointedly asked him, and most everyone who is coming to my house, if he was allergic to cats. It is not my fault he didn’t pay attention. I did take pity when his face started to swell and drove him to CVS for Benadryl which is not my idea of a good date.

"I have four children." Ok. Good for you. "By three different women." Whoa. I seriously needed another drink with this one. This would be why I do not allow my Mom to set me up on blind dates.

"I'm 65." This actually was just in conversation at an art exhibit by a man I couldn't shake. Granted I can make conversation with most anyone. But seriously? He wanted to take me to dinner. In fact his last girlfriend was my age. Really? How about that. Boy, look at the time. I really should go. Anywhere but here.

"I'm married." Our grand prize winner here. We were having a pretty good date, until he suddenly remembered one very important thing. His wife. At any point in the three months that we had known each other and flirted this could have come up. But he waits until dinner. So I did the only thing I could do - excused myself to the ladies room and called his wife. Never a good idea to give out your home number when living a double life.

I can laugh at all of these and did at the time. They just make me extremely gratful for the men in my life who are the decent, kind, generous, respectful ones.

Like a Rolling Stone

In spite of my massively busy schedule, I took the time to attend the Rolling Stones concert at Gillette Stadium. Granted, one would be foolish to pass up the offer with the excellent seats I was fortunate enough to sit in. It hadn't really occurred to me to actually see the Stones but I'm glad I did. There is nothing quite like a big stadium rock show. The lights! The fireworks! The flames! The "magic carpet" stage. As my friend said, it was like the Rolling Stones meet Cirque du Soleil.

The boys put on a great show and made me realize I need to get some of their tunes on my Ipod. The downside to a big stadium show however is the inability to get out of the parking lot. A glass of wine, lobster salad and some pate made the time fly by!

What a world

While I try to keep up with the world sometimes it still amazes me at what is going on. I am puzzled at the lack of continued outrage at Turkey punishing authors who make mention of the Armenian Genocide. The latest author, Elif Shafak, who is nine months pregnant is going to be standing trial for "insulting Turkishness". So essentially they are trying a fictional character. Hmm.

I want to think that here in America this would never happen. We are a rational country built on the foundations of our forefathers.

Oh wait, "A bill radically redefining and expanding the government's ability to eavesdrop and search the houses of U.S. citizens without court approval passed a key Senate committee Wednesday, and may be voted on by the full Senate as early as next week. http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,71778-0.html?tw=wn_index_16"