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February 13, 2015

 

 

 

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Crash Course For
Valentine's Day
  
 Valentine Hearts 
  
With Valentine's Day on the immediate radar, we'd like to share some 
lighthearted views on that most elusive &
mysterious of all emotions: LOVE.  

 

 

 

Thought For The Day 

 The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet

been able to answer, despite my thirty years

of research into the feminine soul, is

'What does a woman want?' 

Sigmund Freud 

1856 - 1939

 

 

 

 

 

Guide To Guys

from the 1996 book by

Dave Barry

 

For all the ladies who are wondering what the guy is thinking while they are having

a serious relationship discussion:

  

Let's say a guy named Roger is attracted to a woman named Elaine. He asks her out to a movie; she accepts; they have a pretty good time. A few nights later he asks her out to dinner, and again they enjoy themselves.

They continue to see each other regularly,

and after a while neither one of them

is seeing anybody else. 

 

And then, one evening when they're driving home, a thought occurs to Elaine, and, without really thinking, she says it aloud: ''Do you realize that, as of tonight, we've been seeing each other for exactly six months?'' 

 

And then there is silence in the car. To Elaine, it seems like a very loud silence. She thinks to herself: Geez, I wonder if it bothers him that I said that. Maybe he's been feeling confined by our relationship; maybe he thinks I'm trying to push him into some kind of obligation that he doesn't want, or isn't sure of.

 

And Roger is thinking: Gosh. Six months.
  

And Elaine is thinking:

But, hey, I'm not so sure I want this kind of relationship, either. Sometimes I wish I had a little more space, so I'd have time to think about whether I really want us to keep going the way we are, moving steadily toward . . . I mean, where are we going? Are we just going to keep seeing each other at this level of intimacy? Are we heading toward marriage? Toward children? Toward a lifetime together? Am I ready for that level of commitment? Do I really even know this person? 

 

And Roger is thinking: . . . so that means it was . . . let's see . . ...February when we started going out, which was right after I had the car at the dealer's, which means . . . lemme check the odometer . . . Whoa! I am way overdue for an oil change here. 

 

And Elaine is thinking: He's upset. I can see it on his face. Maybe I'm reading this completely wrong. Maybe he wants more from our relationship, more intimacy, more commitment; maybe he has sensed -- even before I sensed it -- that I was feeling some reservations. Yes, I bet that's it. That's why he's so reluctant to say anything about his own feelings. He's afraid of being rejected.
 
And Roger is thinking: And I'm gonna have them look at the transmission again. I don't care what those morons say, it's still not shifting right. And they'd better not try to blame it on the cold weather this time. What cold weather? It's 87 degrees out, and this thing is shifting like a  garbage truck, and I paid those incompetent thieves $600.
 

And Elaine is thinking: He's angry. And I don't blame him. I'd be angry, too. God, I feel so guilty, putting him through this, but I can't help the way I feel. I'm just not sure.


And Roger is thinking: They'll probably say it's only a 90-day warranty. That's exactly what they're gonna say, the scumballs.

 

  And Elaine is thinking: Maybe I'm just too idealistic, waiting for a knight to come

riding up on his white horse, when I'm sitting right next to a perfectly good person, a person I enjoy being with, a person I truly do care about, a person who seems to truly care about me. A person who is in pain because of my self-centered, schoolgirl romantic fantasy.


And Roger is thinking: Warranty? They want a warranty? I'll give them a warranty. I'll take their warranty and stick it right up their ...


''Roger,'' Elaine says aloud.


''What?'' says Roger, startled.

 

''Please don't torture yourself like this,'' she says, her eyes beginning to brim with tears. ''Maybe I should never have . .
Oh God, I feel so ...

'' (She breaks down, sobbing.)  

 

''What?'' says Roger.  

 

''I'm such a fool,'' Elaine sobs. ''I mean, I know there's no knight. I really know that. It's silly. There's no knight, and there's no horse.''

 

 ''There's no horse?'' says Roger.  

 

''You think I'm a fool, don't you?'' Elaine says.


''No!'' says Roger, glad to finally know the correct answer.  

 

''It's just that . . . It's that I . . . I need some time,'' Elaine says.

 

(There is a 15-second pause while Roger, thinking as fast as he can, tries to come up with a safe response. Finally he comes up with one that he thinks might work.)

"Yes,'' he says.

 

(Elaine, deeply moved, touches his hand.)

''Oh, Roger, do you really feel that way?''

she says.

''What way?'' says Roger.


''That way about time,'' says Elaine.


''Oh,'' says Roger. ''Yes.''

 

(Elaine turns to face him and gazes deeply into his eyes, causing him to become very nervous about what she might say next, especially if it involves a horse. (At last she speaks.)  

''Thank you, Roger,'' she says.

 

''Thank you,'' says Roger.

 

 

 

Then he takes her home, and she lies on her bed, a conflicted, tortured soul, and weeps until dawn, whereas when Roger gets back to his place, he opens a bag of Doritos, turns on the TV, and immediately becomes deeply involved in a rerun of a tennis match between two Czechoslovakians he never heard of. A tiny voice in the far recesses of his mind tells him that something major was going on back there in the car, but he is pretty sure there is no way he would ever understand what, and so he figures it's better if he doesn't think about it. (This is also Roger's policy regarding world hunger.)

 

The next day Elaine will call her closest friend, or perhaps two of them, and they will talk about this situation for six straight hours. In painstaking detail, they will analyze everything she said and everything he said, going over it time and time again, exploring every word, expression, and gesture for nuances of meaning, considering every possible ramification. They will continue to discuss this subject, off and on, for weeks, maybe months, never reaching

any definite conclusions, but never

getting bored with it, either.


Meanwhile, Roger, while playing racquetball one day with a mutual friend of his and Elaine's, will pause just before serving, frown, and say: ''Norm, did Elaine ever own a horse?''

  

 

Communications

Flow Chart 

Guys may want to print this chart and
keep it as a handy reference for those times when experiencing communication issues with the woman in your life.
  
 Have Some Wine   
  
 

  

 

 Post Script  

 
 

 Lee Smith

  

"Come all you fair and tender ladies

Be careful how you court young men.

They're like a star in a summer's morning,

First appear and then they're gone.

 

If I'd a-knowed afore I courted

That love, it was such a killin' crime,

I'd a-locked up my heart in a box of golden

and tied it up with a silver line."

 

From

Fair and Tender Ladies 

Lee Smith

Author

 

 

Valentine's Jukebox 

The Ronettes - BE MY BABY - live [HQ]

The Ronettes

 Be My Baby


 

Isley Brothers Motown

The Isley Brothers

This Old Heart Of Mine

Four Tops

Four Tops

Ask The Lonely

Jackie Wilson - Higher & Higher Official Video

Jackie Wilson 

 Higher & Higher

The Bee Gees- 'To Love Somebody'

The Bee Gees

To Love Somebody

Righteous Brothers You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin' (45 RPM)

Righteous Brothers

You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin

 

Robert Knight

Robert Knight

Everlasting Love

Going To The Chapel Of Love-  The Dixie Cups

Going To The Chapel Of Love

  The Dixie Cups

Then He Kissed Me - The Crystals

Then He Kissed Me

The Crystals

Amy Winehouse - Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow

Amy Winehouse

Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow

    

Ain't Too Proud To Beg - Temptations

Temptations

Ain't Too Proud To Beg

The Ronettes - Baby, I Love You

The Ronettes

 Baby, I Love You

 

Double shot (Of My Baby's Love)

Double Shot (Of My Baby's Love)

The Swingin' Medallions

 

It's perfectly OK to crank these up

and bust a move in the office! 

 
 
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Got You Covered
Bo Tidwell
 
  Thanks to all of you who took the time
to stop by our booth at the winter shows 
to visit, catch up & even do a little business.
 
I hope this newsletter will give you a
brief break from the everyday grind
of operating a business in the great green industry
in the unkind month of February. And in my wildest dreams I would hope that some of this information
can be a small step forward in the ongoing struggle
for men and women to understand each other better!
 
  
 Bo Tidwell
 
  
 
 

 

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