Of triangles and elephants

Every so often you bump into one of those situations. Those awkward ones. I seem to be recalling a lot of them lately. Perhaps a sign that I should be making new memories.

It can get interesting though. When you know she's having something or other with a guy you happen to know. A guy who happens to be married. He knows that you know. You know that she knows that you know. The doctor knows that everyone knows. In fact, the wife probably also knows. But no one says a thing. If it wasn't so tragic it would be absolutely hilarious.

At every opportunity you make a point of not mentioning the obvious. Now I'm not one to judge, even when I have an opinion. If you want to have a thing with a married man... well... Do you have to, really. There are sufficient numbers of single guys for you not to. So Kamikaze was all but written off this list, and aJamaa may or may not be on a slippery slope leading down a hill or something like that. Still plenty of guys out there. I tell it to any chic who'll listen. There's one who actually enquired about these [good] friends I kept mentioning and wondered if I could hook her up. She needed to get laid. Her words. One for another post.

Anyway. As I was saying. I see no need to have a thing with a married someone. There are tonnes of people you can have a thing with, casual or otherwise. Perhaps it's that thing called love [which I know nothing about]. No amount of rational, unisex logic can help you out with that. There surely are no good outcomes. You either oust the wife and become the step-mom, or go your way 7 years later when the thing finally ends and the guy sticks with the wife. Turn into one of those G10 folks. Even if you convince yourself that there are no "good" men, you could still do perfectly fine on your own. Bury yourself in work. It's amazing how effective fatigue can be at inducing apathy. Or you could do the partying thing. There'll be no shortage of guys there. And you don't even have to marry them.

But. People like what they like. That's just how it is. So until there's some kind of seismic event, you just do like the elephant isn't sitting in the room.