When is it friendship and when is it taking advantage?

[+ dutchmuch]

Guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days.

 

Benjamin Franklin

[Phil_musc]

Dutch, you and Ben are right on the money here.

[geminibear]

I swore off reading this thread a few days ago, but it's like an awful movie that somehow you just can't look away from, I came back and read to the end. Jesus God, what is the matter with me? What was I thinking? Have I abdicated all sense of personal responsibility for my own sanity? Nevertheless, a few points for review:

 

 

 

 

 

I seem to remember something about $13,000 being mentioned. For someone in his 20's, that's not exactly nothing.

The phone thing is just intolerable unless you're eating in a restaurant that is so noisy that conversation is impossible. The concert tickets are one more nail in the coffin of this relationship.

 

 

 

This along with PK's funny line about changing a hair style were the only flashes of humor in four sorry pages of soap opera. Thanks and kudos to those guys.

 

I also did appreciate Roger's snide humor about his expectations with his guest. I think this might actually work as a porn scenario - you know, we start out with our young man fresh off the farm and with a killer dancer body who is ever so straight and would never (fill in the blank). Then somehow or other, through liquor or some other demon assistance, the young man allows his host the pleasure of non-reciprocal oral sex. Eventually he decides to try it for himself (probably on one of his dancer buddies), and one thing eventually leads to another and next thing you know (well, probably about 40 minutes later in the film) he gives up his ass.

 

 

~Gem