Dishing the dirty stuff
Good morning, all. Anyone do anything exciting this weekend?
I went out to dinner at a neighborhood restaurant and couldn't help listening to the conversation at the table behind me. A group of women, probably all in their 30s, was working their way through an assortment of drinks. And the more they drank, the more they opened up about the guys they knew, the ones they were sleeping with and the ones they wanted to be sleeping with.
Of course, I found this hilarious. (I think my date, though, was a little put-off that my focus was on the neighboring table.)
When I hear public conversations like this - and I hear them often at restaurants, at stores and, particularly, in salons - I can't help, in part, being horrified that women will talk so readily about the details of their sex lives where anyone can hear.
On the other hand, there have been times, usually after a few glasses of wine, when I've indulged in similar behavior. Conversations about a guy's prowess. Ranking guys I've slept with. And making fun of my one-night stands over dinner with a friend.
Do you share intimate details of your dates/flings/relationships with other people? What sort of things are not OK to share with friends when you're dating someone? And would you be offended to overhear a public conversation about about a guy's, ahem, parts? Or a detailed rundown of a recent tumble in the bedroom?
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Funny you brought this up. Last week at Fisher's I overheard a group of girls talking about whether they'd prefer doing "the dishes or the d---."
I don't know what the exact context of the convo was, and they were a few glasses of wine deep, but they definitely didn't choose the dishes.
Overhearing that kind of stuff is great, if you ask me, and not in a creepy sort of way. As long as it's in a setting where there's an 18-plus crowd, I say let it fly.
Anytime I've ever gone into that kind of talkin', it's usually done while camping, playing pool or sitting on a boat with the fellas, after a few beers.
Posted on September 24, 2007 2:33 PM