someone special does appear on the scene you may not be as adept as you would like to be or perhaps not have the confidence to carry it off.
Have you noticed the playboy in action? He believes: Winning isn’t everything it’s the only thing. The playboy never wastes a woman. Everyone he meets: from nine to ninety; seven stone to seventeen stone; plain, ugly , beautiful; he charms them all. To him every one is a practice run; a full dress rehearsal in preparation for the gala performance when he meets Ms Right.
Charles is tall, dark and handsome with a winning smile. He said: “But Rosalind I can get a second date with the ones that don’t interest me. It’s always the women I am keen on that elude me”. “Do you come on too strong, show your hand too soon?” I asked Charles.
“No” he said. “I keep it all pretty low key”. “Well what do they say when you invite them out a second time?” I asked. “The last one who was my idea of Elle McPherson said, I have lots more fellows to meet yet. I’m not really looking for a relationship”. “That’s easily solved Charles. Don’t invite the Elle McPherson’s of this world to start a relationship”, I said. “But I didn’t” he said in misunderstood tones.
“Oh yes you did Charles. You may not have phrased it in those exact words but she replied to that question so it’s what she thought you said”. “Hell, all I asked, after our first meeting which ended up with dinner, was: “Would you like to do this again?” Hardly a marriage proposal!”
‘Relationship’: the civilised conversationalist uses this word in public only to describe a seafaring vessel carrying members of his family. Fran Lebowitz, Metropolitan Life, 1978.
I then went on to explain to Charles that