Breakfast Conversations With Men

June, 12th, 2012

Aloha !

Well, this morning at breakfast , there was a bit of a brouhaha with the men . The guys from the maintenance
department was going to leave work early and go play paintball. Well, lets just say that one of them was in disagreeance with taking the time off as he felt that they could all go on Friday when they all have the day off .To him, work is work . You put in your full time . Period. The maintenance crew is lucky as they work 4 days straight and have Fri, Sat, Sun off.  Me, I get every other day off and often , I work on the weekends .

So, lets just say that this person ( Man A )  was voicing out his disagreeance about the timing of this outing . And, another ( Man B ) was feeling resentful  about man A voicing his opinion as he ( Man B )  was starting to feel guilty about going . Along comes Man 'C ' and starts chiming in his two bits about going to play paintball.  Man A  got really annoyed and Man B appeared to be overwrought with guilt that it pissed him off
and he was withdrawn from the conversation by burying his face into the newspaper .  hmmm.....Resentful and withdrawn .  Two words that I have recently given the definition to , for one particular person who is part of the Man A,B,C .   This is a fine example to use those words in today's context and verbal discourse/disagreement.

Whoowee ! There was almost a fight .I found it really funny . Here I am , sitting among a whole bunch of men , and they were having a verbal aggressive ping pong ball of words , fighting about the work ethics of going to play paintball when they are really scheduled to be working versus that they were overdued for an outing .I ended up mediating for them. They listened. Go figure. I thought the whole thing was very funny and my laughter diffused some of the heated conversation.  " We should bring you along, Molly , to keep the boys civil "  said Sunshine. Yes, his name is Sunshine. Yes, and one of them was going to wear a hard plastic drinking cup on his crotch as a makeshift jockstrap .He even demonstrated by unzipping his shorts and placing the 5 inch tall plastic drinking glass in his groin area.   " You're gonna have to stuff yourself in there ! "  one of the guys yelled out.through his laughter .  " You got long pants ?" another one said . " I think he's going to wear his speedos "  I said. The men just howled !  They thought that was really funny.

The laughter diffused the tension. Yes, apparently, some of them were practicing how they were going to shoot . " It not just that you hit the target , you have to look good doing it too. I 'm going to shoot like Bond. James Bond "  Man B said.  And he demonstrated.  Boys will be boys and men will be boys too. I know that they will have a great time playing paintball.

With much aloha,
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Molly