Good Monday morning! The dishwasher has the last load of last night's festivities, thank goodness. One of these days I want one of the industrial dishwashers that finishes in 20 minutes and can take 15 place settings at once. They're ugly things, but it sure beats this mess.
Anyway, here's what happened. My long time friend has 2 daughters. One of them is in a post grad at U of T, the other is going into her last year of undergraduate work at the same university Nick graduated from. This girl just broke up with her long time bf and has had a long standing crush on my youngest son, Nick, the son who had been away in Oz etc. for a year. Meantime, HER old bf is being a complete pain-in-the butt and calls second daughter all the time, driving her nuts. Her mother had an idea that perhaps her daughter needed a distraction. Yep, you guessed it.
So yesterday afternoon, mother and second daughter dropped in for a glass of wine just in time for my sons to arrive here for appetisers before dinner. Sure enough, daughter, all decked out in a very fetching little get-up (and wearing FAR too much makeup which she most certainly does NOT need as she is gorgeous), attracted the attention of my son, the very urban, street-smart, hipster (for lack of a better word, sorry), and he invited her out to an after party for the Much Music Video Awards that were held here last night. He said he'd pick her up somewhere around 10:30, and she accepted. Drools all around. (I left them all outside, went into the kitchen during this part of the visit - I was really uncomfortable with this. Nick is a very "cool" guy, very easy chatter-upper with the young ladies.)
Then her father vetoed the date and the girl had to decline at the last minute. My son was not impressed in the least. Anyway, the point is, mothers shouldn't try match-making. I knew it wouldn't fly, having known this family for years, watched those girls grow up, saw their taste in boys, etc. Just a cautionary tale. :)
Ahhh, interesting times. I was suddenly reminded of mothers from medieval movies getting their daughters prim and proper for the ball where the prince is at. Always disliked those moms especially the step mom from Cinderella.
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Maybe, Shelly, but it would be a really weird twist of fate.
I guess what astounded me the most is what Brandon mentioned - tarting up one's daughter for the slaughter. I don't think my friend had the faintest idea what she was setting her daughter up for. My first reaction upon seeing her was to take her into the bathroom and hand her a face cloth for all that junk on her face, then to give her some clothes a couple of sizes larger. I didn't, of course, but I sure wanted to! What does a young man think when he sees a young lady trussed up like that? Yup!
Shelly, I don't know quite what you mean. I don't think there's a similarity but I might just be missing something.
The hideous expression "why buy the cow when the milk is free" refers to a man not bothering to marry the woman he is sleeping with, as if to say that marriage is the price to pay for regular sex, as if the woman who "puts out" without the wedding band is a cheap substitute until a real wife candidate presents herself. And the 'real wife" candidate would never sleep with her boyfriend until they were married. I think that's a little antiquated to say the least, lol.
I think we were thinking the same thing, just coming from different directions, lol.
The girl was dressed in the typical suburban over-groomed thing. You can pick out an non-city female a mile away from their over the top fussiness with grooming details. Typically, they over-colour their hair in stripes , spend a fair bit of time at the tanning salons, wear too much makeup, are obsessed with fashion labels, wear too much jewelry, that kind of thing. It's really typical around here. We joke (my urban girlfriends and I in a catty moment) that we can pick out a 905er (the area code outside Toronto) in a heartbeat. We DO feel SO superior, LOL!! It's a snob thing, and I love it. *snort*
Anyway, while it might be typical to dress up like a full fledged tart out in the boonies, it sure isn't here. The message it sends here is "do me". Maybe that's not what they MEAN to convey, but it is what the city guys pick up, lol. You can bet anything that when my son invited this girl out to a late night party, he wasn't intending to drive her all the way back home to the suburbs at 4 a.m. If she had been dressed like Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm, he wouldn't have asked her to go to a Much Music after-party that started at 10 p.m. in the first place. Maybe go bowling, but not THAT kind of party.
Ok here's my two cents: I think if they had some chemistry, the girl should tell her dad to go jump in a lake and go out with Nick anyway! Who knows, could be a match made in heaven... I'm a romantic what can I say.
And as far as the make up thing, once she starts seeing how "normal" girls dress, she can change all that
