Parenthetical Aside

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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    A lady friend of mine told me she had this shelf she bought that you put together (from Target or Wal-Mart or "some damn place" as my dad would say). I told her I would put it together for her (because she said she's no good at stuff like that). Her ex-husband told her that she needed to learn to do things for herself, since she's a single woman now. I thought he must have some serious stones to say that (and mean it).

    I had to stress that there would be no obligation for putting the shelf together. One snowy night in the winter, we met for drinks and she told me she had just come from shoveling snow. I offered to come over and shovel that night so she could get up the steep hill that is her driveway. She declined on the grounds that I might assume there was some obligation on her part.

    I guess in some strange economy there are guys who do things like that and then expect sex. It should be so easy - I'd go out and buy a snow plow and a new toolbox.

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