What this planet needs is more mistletoe and less missile-talk. ~Author Unknown

This is how it usually starts....I'm sitting at a table talking to a friend or two and one of them will ask the question "So.....How did your date go?". While the story changes, the ending is almost always the same. My friends end up in peels of laughter over my latest dating debacle and proclaim that I really should be writing this stuff down. So here I am, blogging about all the situations that make me want to tell a man to "Pucker up and Kiss it".

Let's face it, no matter what your age, dating isn't always fun. In fact, I'd have to equate dating to war. Consider a man and a woman opposing countries, each of which is interested in the others natural resources. We want what they have but we know they aren't just going to hand it over to us. So we spend our time feeling out each others foreign policies, negotiating fair trade standards and showcasing our countries terrain to it's visitor all in the hope that both countries will come to a compromise on how best to share their resources and live in peace for all eternity. The reality, however, is that one of those countries will end up betraying the others trust, will be less than truthful about the true status of the countries stats or possible even attempting to share it's resources with a 2rd country without the 1st finding out. The result is usually the slighted country tossing a grenade into the enemy camp and then all hell breaks loose. Both countries loose faith in the other, the hurt feeling fester and any talks of a peaceful negotiation are over. Of course it doesn't stop their. Once a country has been attacked it's likely that it will carry battle scars with it to all future negotiations with foreign countries, thus impeding any progress towards peace that could have been made.

As in war, Men and Women will spend hours trying to guess each others next move or find the underlying motivation in the others decisions. Of course Women do this more then Men. So these are my war stories, my battle scars. They are sometimes scary, sometimes sad and about 90 percent of the time funny as hell.....after the fact of course. So welcome to my personal mission to conquer another country.....or maybe just annihilate one beyond recognition!