{"id":312,"date":"2005-04-12T19:01:29","date_gmt":"2005-04-13T01:01:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brubakers.us\/blog\/?p=493"},"modified":"2005-04-12T19:01:29","modified_gmt":"2005-04-13T01:01:29","slug":"gifts-from-strangers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/?p=312","title":{"rendered":"Gifts from Strangers"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"blogPost\">\n<div style=\"float: left; margin-bottom: 2px; margin-right: 6px\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/48600099067@N01\/9270627\/\" title=\"My Late Christmas from my Friend!\"  target=\"out\"><img style=\"border: #e7c8b6 2px solid\" alt=\"My Late Christmas from my Friend! by flip0674\" src=\"http:\/\/photos6.flickr.com\/9270627_67813e1040_m.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Gift number one of three arrived today from Brian&#8217;s stalker friend.. Much to my dismay. And I said to myself, &#8220;I can handle this.&#8221; Brian will even attest to the fact that I didn&#8217;t freak out, didn&#8217;t do the jealous wife thing. In fact, I maintained a good sense of humor about it all. I&#8217;m thrilled for Brian for having enough appeal to attract a <em>sugar mommy<\/em> without even <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cutecouple.us\/2005\/03\/cam-nudity.htm\"  target=\"out\">having to strip or jack off for the webcam<\/a>. Kudos, baby! You win! You know I&#8217;m better than Brian at a lot of things, but he&#8217;s definitely better than me at getting strangers to send him gifts. That&#8217;s for sure. I&#8217;m not even going to bother competing with this girl. She&#8217;s not going to sucker me into it like the last time. She can keep wooing him all she wants. I know Brian won&#8217;t leave me. I give good head! Kidding aside, this is really great. She can buy him gifts, I can give him sex, and everyone is happy. I get to save money this way. Ha! Ha! Ha! Meet Ching, the eternal optimist. &#8220;Now I have to call her,&#8221; he says. &#8220;Definitely,&#8221; I tell him. &#8220;You should definitely call her and thank her for the gift.&#8221; &#8220;But what if she wants to have phone sex with me?&#8221; &#8220;Go for it. I don&#8217;t mind.&#8221; &#8220;I don&#8217;t even know what she looks like. I&#8217;m not having phone sex with her until I see a picture.&#8221; He starts laughing after saying this because he realizes that he said something that I might say. &#8220;What does it matter? You&#8217;re going to imagine that you&#8217;re fucking <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.answers.com\/topic\/rachael-ray&#038;method=8\"  target=\"out\">Rachel Ray<\/a> (he&#8217;s had the hugest crush on the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.foodnetwork.com\/food\/show_ad\/0,1976,FOOD_9947,00.html\"  target=\"out\">$40 a Day<\/a> chick since he saw her in her underwear in <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.fhm.com\/\"  target=\"out\">FHM<\/a>) while you&#8217;re jacking off anyway.&#8221; Brian is so careful about all this stuff. Always trying to reassure me that this crazy woman is not interested in him in <em>that<\/em> way and that she has a boyfriend. What the fuck ever. Well, I wasn&#8217;t born yesterday. I know that she wouldn&#8217;t spend this kind of money on him unless she&#8217;s interested. I mean, if I had extra money I&#8217;d be buying gifts for myself and my loved ones; not total strangers I have never met, and I may never meet, who are living five states away. Brian felt the need to point out that she sent his friend Jared a gift, too. He got a stroller for his kid. So, what? &#8220;Aren&#8217;t you glad you don&#8217;t have any children?&#8221; I asked him, &#8220;Otherwise, you&#8217;d be getting a stupid stroller, too. At least she&#8217;s sending you good stuff.&#8221; Anyway, I think it&#8217;s funny now.. But a couple of years from now when I&#8217;m blogging all alone because he has divorced me to be with his stalker friend I may not be laughing anymore. But that&#8217;s cool. I wouldn&#8217;t want to have the last laugh. You know what they say, &#8220;The person who laughs last ends up peeing.&#8221;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gift number one of three arrived today from Brian&#8217;s stalker friend.. Much to my dismay. And I said to myself, &#8220;I can handle this.&#8221; Brian will even attest to the fact that I didn&#8217;t freak out, didn&#8217;t do the jealous wife thing. In fact, I maintained a good sense of humor about it all. I&#8217;m [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[23],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}