{"id":481,"date":"2024-03-05T01:05:00","date_gmt":"2024-03-05T01:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/andydawkins.com\/?p=481"},"modified":"2024-01-30T16:44:37","modified_gmt":"2024-01-30T16:44:37","slug":"lets-go-to-the-troc-second-daily-dose-to-apologies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/andydawkins.com\/?p=481","title":{"rendered":"Let&#8217;s Go to the Troc  [second daily dose to Apologies]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"center\">At any rate, Hannah, me and a group of friends had tickets for the 76ers game when I got a call from Annie she was coming out to Philly for the weekend, so I invited her to come along.&nbsp; BIG MISTAKE.&nbsp; For the first three periods of the game everything seemed to go okay because we were all part of a larger crowd.&nbsp; Along about the 4<sup>th<\/sup> quarter I realized, too late, that both Hannah and Annie expected I\u2019d be with <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">only one<\/span> of them after the game \u2013 and that neither one of them knew I was being intimate with the other.&nbsp; Hannah thought Annie was just a friend and Annie thought Hannah was just part of the crowd.&nbsp; To this day I don\u2019t know how I could have thought that somehow we would all love each other instead of thinking that they each deserved to know the (whole) truth before I extended the invitation.<\/p>\n<p>In the 4<sup>th<\/sup> quarter the best I could come up with was hatching a plan I thought Hannah would surely decline to participate in and thus go home with her other friends, so I suggested we all go to the burlesque show on Race Street after the game.&nbsp; When Hannah said \u201cSure,\u201d I was pretty much sunk, and when all the others declined, except Annie, I was really sunk.&nbsp; The Sixers won the game in overtime and me, Hannah and Annie got in a cab for the Troc Theatre.<\/p>\n<p>At the&nbsp;Troc I bought three tickets, picked three seats near a fire exit (in case I decided to just get up and leave and let them figure things out for themselves), and sat down in the middle between them.&nbsp; Some dancer named Marilyn was doing a strip tease live on stage.&nbsp; In the dark I could sense both Hannah and Annie were about to touch my knee (or worse) and bump into each other.&nbsp; Marilyn started in on<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_482\" style=\"width: 179px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/andydawkins.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Gypsy-Rose-Lee-rt-side-up.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-482\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-482 \" alt=\"Doing his best Gypsy Rose Lee\" src=\"http:\/\/andydawkins.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Gypsy-Rose-Lee-rt-side-up-169x300.jpg\" width=\"169\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/andydawkins.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Gypsy-Rose-Lee-rt-side-up-169x300.jpg 169w, http:\/\/andydawkins.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Gypsy-Rose-Lee-rt-side-up-578x1024.jpg 578w, http:\/\/andydawkins.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Gypsy-Rose-Lee-rt-side-up.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 169px) 100vw, 169px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-482\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Doing his best Gypsy Rose Lee<\/p><\/div>\n<p>[[[[<i>editor: &nbsp;need Gypsy Rose Lee\u2019s sheet music score with the<\/i> <i>musical notes to that famous song printed out here<\/i>]]]],<\/p>\n<p>and suddenly I had the inspiration to join her on stage.&nbsp; I was on stage whipping off my shirt when the cops came and escorted me out of the theatre.<\/p>\n<p>Both Hannah and Annie made it home by themselves.&nbsp; (Annie to her hotel room.)&nbsp; Needless to say, my relationship with both now had some ill feelings.&nbsp; The moral to this story, boys, is that you need to learn sooner than I did to avoid any situation where your lover is emotionally disrespected.&nbsp; Make sure the relationship is human, not just sexy, and be respectful of another\u2019s thoughts and feelings.&nbsp;&nbsp; Then it\u2019s okay to believe real love is loving life in all its spices and varieties, to love the one you&#8217;re with, the love that is, and not necessarily confine yourself to the love, oftentimes faked, sometimes dishonest, that you are told<\/p>\n<p>can only be part of a marriage.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<hr align=\"center\" noshade=\"noshade\" size=\"1\" width=\"100%\">\n<\/div>\n<p>No virus found in this message.<br \/>\nChecked by AVG &#8211; 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