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Another entertaining read this week. Much appreciated.
“DDWKS?” … Superb. I give it an enthusiastic two thumbs up.
Well thank you for this extremely entertaining read.
Have a lovely vacation Kate.
That was a bad day for the husband. And I’m 100% sure there were way more Marquette fans.
Thanks MG! Water taxi to China Town and dim sum is on my list too! I’ve seen a DePaul game (we were there for Marquette) at both the Rosemont stadium and just last week the new one downtown. I love college basketball, so it was a good time.
Oh, the Chicago history museum is fun too. And cheap! Copa, that would be a good date.
@ver, that’s awesome! You should make him beef burgundy, or something french, and drink a bottle of wine you bring back for his birthday.
Ooh, MG, I’d love to hear more ideas too. The SNL thing sounds fun! I’m so boring. I need to stop being boring.
Axe throwing! Do it! Actually, I have no real advice because the husband and I haven’t been too adventurous lately. We need to though.
So, I read Friday’s dear prudence and one of the letters made me think of you kmtthat, as in, I thought you might be the LW.
I don’t think by not responding you’re being passive. Not responding is a strong statement in and of itself.
What would responding accomplish besides making you feel good for about 5 minutes because you had scathing retort? Your response certainly won’t keep these a holes from doing it again or make them feel bad. So think of it this way, by responding you’re giving them power over you. You don’t want that.
Finally, if they’re doing this while working, contact the company. I’ve done that before.
I too, like you LW, live in a big city and walk/take public transit everywhere. And I too, like Kate, ignore the comments. I prefer not to engage. 1. for fear it could escalate and 2. what Kate said.
You could totally text him and say you had a good time and wouldn’t mind seeing him again sometime.
The husband and I work together, so like you, we were familiar with one another. We hooked up once before we started dating. We were joking that morning and he said something about how he could go for a glass of chocolate milk (apparently he likes that after a night of drinking?) and his birthday was a few days later. So, on his birthday, I sent him an e-mail that said Happy B-day. Cheers! And it had a pic of chocolate milk. He loved it. However, it was a month later before we had our first official date due to schedules, vacations, deciding if we want to try to date someone we worked with. But we did keep in contact those few weeks with silly things like that.
Anyway, my point is, don’t overthink it! If you want to text, do it. If that “scares” him off, well then, he’s not worth your time anyway.
Understood @kate. Thanks for your last comment
In regard to troubled kids, I would hope that if his or her parents owned a gun, they would remove it from the house if they knew the kid was troubled… but I totally understand that’s not the case and shame on the parents. People are idiots a lot of the time. I definitely wouldn’t want a gun in a house with a child who is troubled or exhibits troubling behavior.
That’s why I said that this LW’s husband shouldn’t get one! Well, I said I wasn’t advocating for it. I apologize for not being more specific and say “LW, I don’t think your SO should get a gun because he sounds paranoid!”
I actually don’t think most people need guns for safety reasons. In fact, I roll my eyes at my cousin’s chauvinist husband because he owns guns for “safety.”
I liked what Miss MJ had to say about respecting guns and wanted to piggyback on that and share my experience with gun ownership and that exact topic.
