What Japanese Women Want: A Western Husband

The Christian Science Monitor ^ | December 6, 2004 | Bennett Richardson

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You stop talking about my decrepit elbow. The left elbow is good. Only problem with that is, I'm right handed.

[Just another Joe]

I just possibly could become an Alpha male, in voice.

LOL
Before I was married I had to call a professional service to come and empty a septic tank.
I called the person on the other end of the phone, "sir", and she told me that she was NOT a sir and if I wanted to come check it out she would show me just how much of a woman she actually was!

The voice sure sounded like it but the actuality couldn't have been more different. lol

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That's what we used to call it when girls and boys called each other names, and said bad things to each other.

[RosieCotton]

Yipes, I just noticed this! This is the very same tag line I once used in another forum. Good taste!

Thanks! ;-)

[WhirlwindAttack]

After recently going through a divorce last year I confided in a friend about the lack of quality contacts I was making with the ladies.
She suggested a personal ad, so I said what the heck. Here's what I put in the paper.

44 Y.o. Conservative,good cook,non-smoking,over worked,under paid,big teddy bear type losing his fur. DWM. Seeks a lady who doesn't have a problem with any of the above. Sense of humor a must.

No replies so far though.

[MarkL]

Dang darlin', ya ain't just a teensy, tinesiest bit bitter and judgemental are ya?

No, that's not bitter... This is bitter...

I hate people in general, and women in particular!"

Mark

[TalonDJ]

You checked? LOL

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It is a fun thread. For once, I'm not on the receiving end....it feels good too.

[RosieCotton]

Heh...I have a friend who wanted to buy one of those bumper stickers that say "Mean People Suck" and cut off the "Mean" part...

For some reason that's what your post reminded me of.

Some days, it's certainly true of us all, I suppose!

[Centurion2000]

It is a fun thread. For once, I'm not on the receiving end....it feels good too.

Well that's a statement that can go anywhere in this forum.

[dmz]

and we know that because we're contemporaries...ok you're older (you admitted your age on your FR homepage), but not by much.

[Just another Joe]

You checked? LOL

I was young, stupid, and immortal. OF COURSE I checked.

[marajade]

I disagree. Losing "respect" or "regard" for someone is not just a "simple" matter.

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When they make that mistake with me I just tell them, I'll give my wife the message when she gets home...we don't have see-a-phone after all. And why embarrass them because I could sing bass in the mornings.

[RosieCotton]

I think we're arguing symantics here, though.

I mean...I try to treat everyone with respect.

But I would have to trust someone and respect them on an entirely different level before I'd be willing to marry them. There are plenty of people I like and respect - to keep using that word - but who I couldn't possibly be partners with for life.

Does that make sense, kinda sorta?

[mbennett203]

"Marry up and don't like women bigger than they are.. or at least what they perceive to be bigger."

Big as in (don't know how to put this nicely) "plump" or did you mean tall?

Is that your pic in the middle of your about page? You're cute.

[RandallFlagg]

YAAGGGHHH!!!

*thud*

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I got you that time...ha ha ha.

You mentioned my age. Here, catch this bottle of aspirin for the headache.

[RosieCotton]

LOL!

I admit...I've been called "sir" on the phone. I have a low voice for a gal, and if it's early morning or I have a cold, even more so.

I can remember one time I called in a tech request to the next level and the gal on the other end was knew so I had to go through the rigmarole of spelling my name. She kept calling me sir, and I didn't want to embarrass her, so I played along. Got through my last name and she said "Oh, the only person we have with that name is (girl name), so that wouldn't be YOU, sir..." At that point I had to say it was.

It would have been nicer if I hadn't gone on that long. Oh well!

[TalonDJ]

Exactly. I did not 'lose' that level of respect. I dated her until I determined I would never gain that level of respect and then I stopped dating her.