A Few Good Ones

On my way back from an offsite meeting, as usual, I had the radio on listening to that guys who allows his dumbest listeners to comment. Why do I listen? I’ll tell why! Because I can’t bare to listen to the same 15 songs that come on the radio. The same ones I listened to on the way up do nothing for me on the way back down. To civilization, that is.

The topic? The lack of good men. The host, a man, said he’d held an event in the DC area and told every woman invited to bring a good man. To make a long story short, only a few brought men. But the kicker was when the host said he didn’t even know any good men. So when women ask him where all the good ones are, he has nothing to offer. He went on to say that even in his age group, the 45+ ones, they still lie and cheat and what not.

As some old bat yammered on trying to punctuate each sentence with some hip phrase, I thought about all the times female associates and friends looked through my photo albums and asked to be hooked up. Or asked if I knew any good single men. Each of those times, I said nope. And I started going through all the men I know today and thinking, “Would I hook him up with my best friends, sisters, etc?” Again, NO. Sad as it is.

Do I know any good men? Heck yes!! Lots. But none are single (unmarried/in official relationships). The single ones I know lack the honesty and general maturity-in-relationships genes. Further, save the degree and absence of babies, they lack 80% of the character traits these single women want and deserve. Now I will say, those good men who aren’t sinlge, it’s not like they are perfect. I remember being younger, in college maybe, and making the statement that all of the guys I grew up with, the posse from high school, would one day grow up and make good husbands. Sure enough, they all did. Not to say they didn’t do their share of foul stuff. But at some point, the straightened up. Not sure if they chose to or had to. All I know is that they did.

Nevermind the alleged lack of good men. What about good women?? Are the men clamouring for good women? Are all the women jaw-jacking about the lack of men good women?? It’s statistically impossible. They may be good for someone but they can’t all fit the overall ‘every man’s ideal wife’ mold. And what do the women consider good? Broads are quick to list characteristics they want in a man. But if those women looked in a mirror, they don’t have those characteristics. When I assess my female associates and friends, about half of them fit men’s criteria for being ‘good’. Damn shame. So what’s left?

Eww, I can’t believe you’ve read this far. I’m only offering up this half-ass post because a certain blogger, who happens to be a SOROR living on Blogsome Bay, but not the one suffering through hurricane tropical storm Katrina, pretty much strong armed me into providing her with an entry. Gosh!!! So then feel free to blame her for me posting this crap. Crap I wrote weeks ago but found it so craptastic and over-done that I didn’t even bother to finish it.