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Issue 04; July 22, 2002 Ask Boomer Al is the fun newsletter of BoomerJournals.com. If you don't want to receive it, we don't want to send it to you. Unsubscribe info is located at the bottom of each issue. _.·´¯) Contents (¯`·._ 1) This week's questions 2) What's up with this? 3) Boomer HA! HA! 4) Remarks from the peanut gallery _.·´¯) Questions (¯`·._ July 22, 2002 “Ask Boomer Al” Seems we have some more of those nagging relationship questions. Life sure is complex for people these days This question comes from a 24 year old gal from “cheese-head” country. That’s football for Wisconsin :) Anyway, she writes … “I’ve been in what I thought was a serious relationship with this guy since high school. He has been two timing me so we broke up. Are there any nice guys out there anymore … and where in the world can a girl meet one? Signed, disappointed! Dear disappointed … The slime! Really though, you will find as you go through life that as people grow they often times will grow in different directions. I think it is asking a lot to expect two seventeen year old teens to develop and mature at the same pace. I’m sure your guy could possibly have been struggling to find a way to tell you he wanted to see other women but I sense you were the dominant one in the relationship so he took the coward’s way out. I would not be too harsh. How about you take a moment to remember the many fun days you shared and wish him well. There’s no reason why you can’t remain friends on some level for many years to come … but that takes maturity that I would have no way of knowing if either or both of you have at this stage. Finding other “nice guys” has always been challenging because young women seem to always want a guy who’s sexy, in shape, and makes them laugh. Men trend to mature later than women in many ways and there are many terrific guys who will grow into those roles with time. A mature together woman is capable of helping a man grow into a terrific person. How? By loving who they are at the time. Young men are just as insecure with their masculinity as women are with their femininity. BTW ... there are very few mature together young men. Arousal saps IQ. Let’s face it … you’ve been out of circulation for a while now so you just need to open your eyes a little. Someone is already looking at you when you don’t know it. Surely you remember the natural art of a glance and a smile then looking away. Question number two is from “Fed Up” who writes Dear Al, I’ve got these friends and co-workers who are constantly interrupting me when I talk and it’s driving me nuts! I don’t do it to them. Others have said they do it to them too. How do we clue them in without ending the friendship? Dear Fed-up … that can be a very irritating thing! Which one of us hasn’t done it actually, and sometimes at the most inopportune times? I know I have. Frankly, some people get excited and just run at the mouth and you have to interupt them, the weasels! Just kidding. Well, the solution is two-fold. You could play the same game. I remember my mother cured us of biting and kicking as kids by biting and kicking so we’d see how it felt. Of course the kids can run to the guidance counselor now for protection. Don’t get me going! The next time it happens don’t let it happen. Just keep speaking like they aren’t there and turn and look at them while you continue to speak over them. I always loved that approach cuz it’s so confrontational and fun! They will probably suddenly realize what they did and apologize or they may actually laugh, or even get a little irritated, and never speak to you again. That may be enough to alert them to your irritation with the habit - duh. The less confrontational way would be to write them a little note explaining how you feel. You can also have a private mature conversation about it so nobody gets embarrassed. Sometimes a public embarrassment has consequences beyond the offense. But that’s for weenies - who tend to live to a ripe old age. For me it’s “Hey … am I invisible or something or are you deaf!”, and we would roll over the desks and computers throwing punches and biting and kicking! Then we would get fired and chase each other down the highway in our cars. Such fun. Office rage. Just kidding of course … wink wink. Don’t tell Ma you! _.·´¯)What's up with this?(¯`·._ John Henry Williams. Haven't you sucked a living out of Dad's fame for enough years. What have you ever done with your life on your own anyway. The man has a right to rest in peace. Don't think for one minute anyone buys that he changed his mind. Think we're all stupid. Go play in the traffic in Boston's Southeast Expressway ... then again, nobody would recognize you. Loser. _.·´¯) Boomer HA! HA! (¯`·._ This guy sends a picture into the lonely hearts club. He gets it back with a note. Thanks, but nobody is that lonely. _.·´¯)Remarks from the peanut gallery (¯`·._ Geeze Al ... I love this here column of yours. I mean you're so smart and everything. Can I send you some cash? (a judge of fine talent ... you buying this?) Have fun. It's later than you think. Al Member Ezine PA _.·´¯) General Info (¯`·._ Ask Boomer Al is an opt-in ezine available by subscription only. We do not use or endorse the use of spam. Your e-mail address is safe, and will never distributed for reason. 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