[Ditto]

True Confession: I used to be a dinner whoremonger. I would go out with a dinner whore so I could eat at a great restaurant and have pleasant conversation with an attractive woman. Whew...I feel better getting that off my chest.

Back in the stone age when I was young, single, and exceedingly handsome I might add, we used to call this a 'date.'

Sometimes it turned into many consecutive 'dates' if we were interested in each other. We used to call that 'steady dating.'

It would be dinner, a movie, then maybe a little drinking and dancing on the weekends, or on weeknights, maybe just a quick stop on the way home for some pie and coffee. And fool that I was, I paid for everything.

Eventually the odds caught up with me however. One of those 'steady dates' turned into my wife, and then things got really expensive. I was feeding her three times a day instead of just once or twice a week. Then those kids came along and I had to feed them three times every day too.

;~))

[trisham]

Heh. :)

[kabumpo]

Well said! Thank you.