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Pete on May 7th, 2002

Well, it’s been a while since we’ve had a 30-comment post, so I thought I’d open the wound again. Actually, this post doesn’t have anything to do with [Jim|anyone] or anything. It’s just an observation I made about people in general. It’s best demonstrated with a hypothetical situation.

For a considerable amount of time, our main character (we’ll call him… umm… Jim) has been dating/seeing/whatever a girl… oh, let’s call her Amy. They have an unusual relationship. Jim wakes up late in the afternoon, usually just early enough to shower before Amy comes to suck the life out of him hang out for the day. If this is early enough in the day, they will sleep in Jim’s room. Sometimes they’ll go back and sleep at her dorm. Now, we have no reason to believe that they do anything but sleep… though Amy is a [$kinky sex|nympho].

There are several factors that lend themselves to problems in this situation. First off, the thing that this Amy character likes more than having an orgasm is companionship and being needed. She can’t stand to be a lone and wastes NO TIME in finding some unsuspecting fool to cater to her every whim… that is, until she finds someone better. The second is that Jim is naive and is completely, with out a doubt, head-over-heels, worships-the-ground-she-walks-on, ditches-his-boys-for-his-hoes in love with that girl. Granted, she’s the first girl (AFAIK) to give him the time of day… but that’s beside the point. As you can see, we have a situation (a hypothetical one, remember) that is about to get ugly REALLY fast.

So Jim has done an excellent job of serving Amy’s purposes. He’s a push-over who seldom thinks for himself (if she wants to do it for him). He’ll do anything she says, at any time, for any (or no) reason. He foregoes prior promises and obligations on her every whim. He treats her like a goddess and he NEEDS her (or thinks he does anyway).

So life should be peachy-keen and perfect, right? Hardly. Amy gets bored easily, with people and in the sack… and our Jim is not a sexual jim-of-all-trades (remember, I know all this because I made the story up). But can you blame her? If you spent 8 hours a day sitting with the same person in a 6′x12′ room, you’d get bored too. So why does she stay with him? She’s lazy… too lazy to find someone else. Unfortunately for Jim, however, summer is right around the corner.

Despite the fact that he’s being used like a box of light-absorbancy tampons on a “heavy day”, he deserves little to no sympathy. Why? First of all, he’s been told and told time and time again, that this is what’s going on. Moreover, several weeks ago, she told him that she “just wasn’t happy” and then proceded to “[$fuck like bunnies|see off]” a male friend of hers who was leaving for the navy. She returned from that little break and went a week or so without seeing him… got bored, lonely, and decided… “Hey… might as well hook it up for the last few weeks of school before I go home and forget that he even exists!”

Now… you tell me… if you had been told that a girl was using you… then she broke up with you because “she wasn’t happy”… then she comes back from “[$wild monkey sex|seeing off]” one of her male friends and all of a sudden wants to be back together?? A month ago Hypthetical Jim had my sympathy… but the dumbshit keeps taking her back.

“Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me… fool me thrice, GOOD LORD Jim is a dumb ass.”



He just needs to grow a pair of testicles and dump her. Period.

17 Responses to “Controversy Returns”

  1. Amy says:

    Again with the tampons… I\’m beginning to worry about this constant mention of femanine hygeine products…

  2. Ara says:

    Can we say pathetic?

  3. Pete says:

    \”Pathetic\”

    Yes… we\’ve been saying that for weeks now. They\’re both almost painfully pathetic… you know… those hypothetical folks in my story.

    How funny is it that two 19-year-olds just got called pathetic by my ultra-cool 12-year-old sister?

  4. Malewhoreroommate says:

    Is Ara single?

  5. 15ft to your right! says:

    Pete, you\’re just jealous…Maybe if you were parting the red sea with your \”holy\” rod, poking the burning bush, or diving in the fiery furnace you wouldn\’t have so much time to make fun of your story characters! he he he he he he he hehe he heheheheh, Pete, he he hehehehehe, *pounds chest* Bring Uga food, now, mmph!

  6. Kare says:

    Amy, I was thinking the same thing…;)

  7. kd says:

    well, i think the real issue here is your somewhat disturbing use of the tampon as metaphor. eww.

  8. Pete says:

    Figures… I try to make a point and everyone focuses on the strangeness of my metaphors. <sigh>

  9. Cathieeee says:

    YAY for tampons!!! *grin*

  10. Kare says:

    Well, there\’s the reference to the tampons and then there\’s the fact that Jim is a dumbass. Two different subjects. But, you know, you have to let people make their own mistakes. I agree that this guy should dump this girl and quick but it sounds like he never will. He\’ll probably forever be the dumpee. Nuttin\’ you can do about it.:)

  11. Tess says:

    Do you ever worry that one of your roommates might kill or, at the very least, horribly maim, you in your sleep one night? I mean, if you wake up dead your social life would be seriously damaged….

  12. Amy says:

    Well if he keeps up with this tampon thing… there wont be much to damage! :)

  13. Pete says:

    If that metaphor is REALLY that bad, feel free to suggest another.

  14. Amy says:

    It\’s not the metaphor that\’s bad, it\’s your continuous mentioning of tampons. I don\’t even know GIRLS who do that!

  15. Pete says:

    Well… My handy-dandy journal searcher says that I\’ve only mentioned tampons in three articles. Two of those were ABOUT tampons. It\’s really not that strange.

  16. Kim says:

    When are you not causing trouble??

  17. Pete says:

    Valid point, Kim… but I don\’t think I get into much trouble while I\’m asleep.