Why are people so stupid??
My roommate just got off the phone with her ex-husband, father of her 18-and-a-half year old son - the son who has been planning for over a month to move out of here into his own place on August 1.
This Self-Centered, Uninvolved Man (or SCUM) lives in a city 2 hours away from here, near where he grew up. He moved away from here when The Son was 6 and has had really limited contact with him since. If he called to talk to The Son once every 2 months, he was doing well. And The Son got to see him... maybe 3, maybe 4 times a year.
SCUM has a bunch of "emotional problems" - mostly to do with his upbringing, abusive and alcoholic. He is, himself, an abuser. He never touched The Son, though. I would have beaten the shit out of him for that. Fortunately he was basically out of The Son's life, for the most part, before he could do too much damage. *I* think we did a bang up job raising this kid. He's smart, polite (for the most part), funnier than hell (he get's his sense of humour from me), he's fairly disciplined, is a not bad worker...
So, here comes the shocker - SCUM doesn't know that The Son is moving out... because he hasn't talked to him in 2 months. SCUM also hasn't told The Son that's he's dating 2 women. He's dating a 19-year-old (20 next month, if you please) who has a 2 year old son. And he's dating a woman his own age who just went through a divorce. Yup... he knows how to pick 'em, let me tell you. A *girl* less than half his age and a woman who doesn't currently know which way is up. But, in both cases, he gets to pretend to be a knight in shining armour, rescuing these women from the detritus of their lives.
I shake my head and wonder at the stupidity of people... he's not the first man (or woman) to do this and he sure won't be the last. Maybe this is why I don't date. I don't want anyone trying to rescue me when I don't need rescuing...
This Self-Centered, Uninvolved Man (or SCUM) lives in a city 2 hours away from here, near where he grew up. He moved away from here when The Son was 6 and has had really limited contact with him since. If he called to talk to The Son once every 2 months, he was doing well. And The Son got to see him... maybe 3, maybe 4 times a year.
SCUM has a bunch of "emotional problems" - mostly to do with his upbringing, abusive and alcoholic. He is, himself, an abuser. He never touched The Son, though. I would have beaten the shit out of him for that. Fortunately he was basically out of The Son's life, for the most part, before he could do too much damage. *I* think we did a bang up job raising this kid. He's smart, polite (for the most part), funnier than hell (he get's his sense of humour from me), he's fairly disciplined, is a not bad worker...
So, here comes the shocker - SCUM doesn't know that The Son is moving out... because he hasn't talked to him in 2 months. SCUM also hasn't told The Son that's he's dating 2 women. He's dating a 19-year-old (20 next month, if you please) who has a 2 year old son. And he's dating a woman his own age who just went through a divorce. Yup... he knows how to pick 'em, let me tell you. A *girl* less than half his age and a woman who doesn't currently know which way is up. But, in both cases, he gets to pretend to be a knight in shining armour, rescuing these women from the detritus of their lives.
I shake my head and wonder at the stupidity of people... he's not the first man (or woman) to do this and he sure won't be the last. Maybe this is why I don't date. I don't want anyone trying to rescue me when I don't need rescuing...
posted by Blue Blankie at 8:46:00 PM
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