Truth Merchants

Tobias Hustleman 8 July 2008 Ask A Guy 85 views 5 Comments Print This Post  Email This Post

Q: What ever happened to the art of dating and chivalry?

A: Pussy went on sale.

Seriously though, this is a good question as I was a former student of chivalrous courting. In my former life as good guy, I often felt like women wanted fairy tale courtships. They wanted to be pursued. They  wanted to be made to feel like a woman. The reward was worth the chase and chances are you felt like you had something. I was taught to respect women and I still do. Something is different though.

Your girl fucked the game up. What did we do before there was Wal-Mart? People shopped at their corner grocery, drug, or  general store. People got to know the workers at the store. The quality of the products were better. I mean Pops tells me all the time how Pepsi was better when he was a kid. Overall, shopping at the store wasn’t just picking up your list of items. It was something you did because your parents did it. Their parents did it and so on.

One day someone opened a Wal-Mart and you could get everything at one store. Items are now cheaper. Prices are constantly falling (or so I’m told). There was a huge selection of items. You can buy a 12 pack of beer and a rifle in the same store. If that isn’t a recipe for disaster I don’t know what is. You had an easy, convenient one stop shop.

Now coming full circle, instead of being an intimate merchant, you’re forced to compete with a corporate juggernaut. You’re now a Target instead of a Steve’s Garden Market. I don’t have to get to know you. There’s a Wal-Mart down the street. Targets aren’t bad. They appear to be higher quality but in a pinch, the Wal-Mart is down the street. She made it easy for me.

Being culpable, we men lowered our standards. Good women lowered their standards to compete in the dog eat dog market. You watch women who aren’t half the catch you are run off with the guy you wanted. It’s disheartening. It has to be. I’ll say this. Think back on all the guys you dated. Hopefully there was one who tried to do right thing and maybe you didn’t treat him right. Check back to see how that guy is. Chances are he’s shopping at Wal-Mart.

You know what? Guys know when they have a good woman. It may take an Earth-shaking event for him to realize it (or you leaving him), but he knows. Know what it is you want in a guy and if you see, go get him. Women don’t have to change men. A guy who wants to be with someone will change himself. Men can be like wild horses but like wild horses, there has to be something within him that will break. That’s something that will have to come from within the guy though. If you try to force it…he’ll shop at Wal-Mart.

There is probably something that can be said about single women raising sons. I mean you’d think in theory they’d right the course but I don’t know. I’m not a parent so I can’t speak on it. There is something to be said about upbringing. Truthfully, guys just go about relationships differently and that’s innate. It’s primitive almost.

Like I said earlier…your girl fucked the game up.You were busy being respectable and she was busy lowering prices. Why spend the higher price when you can get a wider variety of products down the street for less? Don’t be afraid to be open and experimental. We want a woman and a freak. If you can pull off both, sign me up twice.

Oh yeah, and tell your girl to close her Wal-Mart…

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