Envious of Stanley

Saturday night and a glass of beer on our hands with ample sticks of isaw (chicken intestines) hot off the grill from our neighbor. Renz, Stanley and I had been talking about everything that had transpired over the week - work, people we met and what’s not.

Before sipping another glass of beer, Renz said to Stanley, “You are a lucky bastard! A different girl every night, WTF!” Stan usually brings his girlfriend to our boarding house, a different girl almost every night. He also had a steady number of girls; three women to be exact and all in in their early twenties.

After I down my second glass, he had already been flirting with a 19-year old Shaina Magdayao beauty. It’s actually the teenager who’s flirting with him. This man with a beer-belly surely knew how to get women; younger pussies.

Men would be envious of him but for me and Renz, this is a totally different story. While it’s tempting to have different woman in your bed and we admit that said idea will make men salivates, it’s not a good situation to have had once you already found a girl whom to marry or when you are already married. But many women don’t understand this.

Women tend to stereotype men. Women usually see your past and blame you for it. What the man’s negative past had to do with his present? A man is willing to change once he met the right girl. I and Renz, had always been blamed for our past. Stan who had fathered three children and has different ladies at present, still has two young ladies who accepted him for what he was and what he is now. These ladies believe that Stan is a good man amids all these.

We tried to convince Stan to change for he had already found these two ladies who never left him even in the lowest days in his life. We had seen it and all he had to do is make a decision to whom to marry. 

Before we had consumed the whole case of beer, Renz relayed his predicament. He told us that he had difficulty in convincing his wife regarding his whereabouts every time they talk on the phone. He had this problem when his children were no longer living with him. Renz’s wife is working in Hongkong and his children are in Valencia City. One time his wife called and asked where he was. He told her that he’s at his rented home but his wife did not believe him for it was too quiet. His wife had further accused him that he had asked the people around to keep silent. This same goes if we are noisy at the boarding house, she won’t still believe that Renz is with us. What solution can you give him? Nothing! He’s always caught in the middle like me. We can only just give a big burst of a fucking laugh.

I and Renz may have different situation but it only reflects one logical thing. The ladies we have don’t trust us even they have said in multitude ways that they love us. You can trust a person even you don’t love that person. But can you love without trusting? Hell, no!

I had made a conviction to myself never to say lie to a girl because I know in the first place that they would not believe us. There is no need to lie. Ladies think that all men are born liars, anyway. And because of this perception on men that I have a hard times with my current relationship. She keeps on telling me that I am a big lie as if my whole system is programmed to produce lies only.  You say something, she believes the other way. You tried to do well but she took it as a bribe. Do you have a solution to this?

So fortunate is Stanley because, at least, he knows he had already a material wife. He only had to stop his being a womanizer and be responsible or man enough. It is unfortunate for Renz and me because we got an untrusting partner.

With the last glass of beer in our hands, we tossed to our future and had gone to sleep.