In our class there were several single men in their twenties, two
couples, my sister and I, and a recently divorced woman in her early
thirties. She was pretty and nice and always wanted to help us out
and would partner with my sister or I in the pool, a job most of the
adults resisted. We always wanted to sit by her but so did all of the
young men. We were totally oblivious and didn't really realize that
all of these guys were paying her mush more attention then the other
students. They would be hanging around to help her carry her gear and
help her put it on and all sorts of really nice things that they
didn't offer to do for a 12 year old boy and his sister who probably
could have actually needed the help. On second thought that would
have been creepy if a bunch of twenty something men were really
interested in helping me get my gear on just right. When we went on
our open water trip we were staying in tents on the shore of the lake
and the evening we arrived we got settled in and had dinner and we
popped over to the cool ladies tent and for some weird reason one of
the guys from class was in her tent laying down on a sleeping bag
cuddling with her. Hmmm, very curious. We didn't let some quite
personal moment make us feel awkward so we invited ourselves into the
tent and sat down for a chat. We talked about the ride and where we
were camped and them my sister asked if the lady wanted to partner up
the next morning. She said that would be fun but her man friend was a
little curious about why he was not going to be her partner. We left
to go back to our tent and my mom asked where we had gone and when we
told her where we had been and what was going on she told us that we
shouldn't go back to that lady's tent because they probably wanted
privacy and that we shopuld stop asking her to partner with us. We
argues that she always wanted to be our partner but my mom just said
she was only being polite and that we should partner with each other
so no one had to bother with us. It didn't matter anyway because the
dive master made the pairing for each dive and that was that. Every
time a dive was over and for all three nights that dude was
monopolizing the cool lady spending a lot more tent time then I
thought was necessary. I stead of talking with a cool woman who
listened to me I had to talk to my mom and sister. Lame. Stupid lady
hogger.
