I wasn’t exactly looking my best that day, not to mention that I was eating frozen yogurt out of a cup while pushing my shopping cart across the parking lot. Not classy at all! Not since last year in San Francisco, when strangers would try to make a pass at me, has there been a complete stranger with a similar attempt.
The Mercedes Benz stopped as I stood there, trying to figure out what had just happened. It was getting more and more interesting as we started a conversation.
Me: Well…this is kind of odd. Not that this is the first time I’ve encountered a situation like this, but this is the First in Taiwan for me.
Stranger: I am sure that you hear it all the time. You are very beautiful! I would like to get to know you better…Maybe we can meet for dinner?
Me: Thanks you! Hmmm, may I ask you a personal question? What is your marital status? I wouldn't want to be caught having dinner with a married man I hardly know.
Stranger: I am married. If you are looking marriage, then I am sorry, I’m already off the market. But I just want to get to know you better over a nice dinner and make a new friend. Is it that big of a deal?
Me: Ai Yai Yai... No, I am not looking for marriage and yes, there is nothing wrong about getting to know each other as people often do. However, it is odd to meet a married man for dinner when his wife probably has no idea about the rendezvous.
Does your wife allow you to have dinner with an unknown single woman? If I were married, I would not expect my husband to dine with an opposite sex whom he met at a random parking lot. I am wary of married men who try to ask me out for a date.
Before the strange married man had a chance to say another word, two people came toward the car next to me. "Excuse us!" one of them said to me.
“Certainly! Let me get out of your way!” I moved my shopping cart so that their car could back out from the space and then I just kept moving toward my car.
In all fairness, this married man had some strange guts to approach me. It is truly a bizarre incident! Had I not inquired about his marital status, he probably would not volunteer that information. What has this world come into? Infidelity is as big a threat to modern marriage as ice cream is to my waistline!
HBO had a series called "The Mind of the Married Man" a few years ago. It was the male version of its award winning show, “Sex and the City.” The show didn’t fly at all. Something was missing – lack of beautiful women in skimpy outfits. Maybe the viewers didn’t care much about what’s going on in the mind of the married man – in fact, not much is happening anyway.
In one episode, a beautiful woman walked into a bar alone as a group of married men watched her in awe.
One said, “Damn….check her out. What a knockout!”
Another expressed his overwhelming joy, “I would give anything just to be with her! She is the kind of a perfect woman that every man desires!”
“You know what? I bet whoever is doing her is tired of her already!”A wise man spoke up.
A profound revelation was born!
Therefore, the morale of the story is that a man can be married to a supermodel and it is only matters of time before he gets tired of her (i.e. the seven-year itch). This just goes to show that Men are greedy!
Is it too much to ask for a man who will always love me and never get tired of being with me? Will he be into me ‘till the end of the world?
Denzel Washington...My Dream Man!
