Chivalry makes us paranoid
There is a commercial out right now for a cell phone company which talks about how their network has the fewest dropped calls. The commercial features a woman who calls her best friend to tell her that her sweetie has sent her flowers. The friend immediately “awww’s” the gesture. The woman then states that her coworkers think he sent the flowers because he has done something wrong. Her friend, I am sure, offers reassurance that the sweetie sent them to be nice but the woman does hear that…the call has been dropped. Not hearing her friend’s response she fears her coworkers are right and that he has indeed done something terrible and is sending the flowers to soften the blow.

It has seemed lately that everyone around me who is involved in a relationship has been having some issues. Is it Male PMS? The full moon perhaps? Is he just not that into you? *shrug*

For some reason I seem to be immune to this current male dilemma, because my current sweetie has been more than accommodating. Which makes me wonder what he is up too?

Friday night Lennie and I were supposed to spend time together. We had talked about dinner and catching a movie. I got up that morning and felt like crap. It got so bad that I even ended up leaving work early. I called him to say that I just couldn’t make it out. That I think the stress and the recent move have finally caught up with me. He fully understood and said he would grab a beer with a friend and then call later to check on me. Later that evening he called to say he was on his way over. When he showed up he had a bag in his hand from a swanky new restaurant that just opened up. In the bag was a chocolate molten cake and ice cream. He apparently remembered me mentioning that chocolate always makes things better.

Saturday morning we got up and he offered to cook me breakfast. It was a wonderful concoction he created. He took a small pie tin and lined it with crescent roll dough then lined it with bacon, topped it with egg and cheese and put it in the oven to bake. Turned out really well. After breakfast while I got ready to go to work, he install a new digital thermostat for me. I had an old mercury one that the numbers were all worn off of. In the process the fan stopped working and he spent the rest of the morning fixing it.

Sunday I asked if I could borrow his mower since I have yet to purchase one. He said he would drop it off in the afternoon so that I could mow right after work. I got home and there were 4 bags of lawn clippings sitting on my driveway. I was a bit upset at first because I thought my neighbors had thrown there trash on my property until I realized that my grass was cut. Well actually I don’t have grass I have WEEDS!!! Lots of them which he said were a pain to cut. I have a man coming out to look at the yard this week.

Then last night he called to say he wanted to book a couple’s massage Friday afternoon. We could do the massage then grab some dinner and head over to the Rod Stewart concert that he had bought tickets too. He said if I booked the massage he would pay for it.

It is not uncommon for Lennie to do nice things for me. But 4 day’s straight has me wondering. Like the girl in the commercial….has he done it to be nice or is he making up for something he did wrong. Lennie's response would be, "Damned if you do...Damned if you don't"

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