This should be a good kick off to the new year. I’ve posted this before and it needs to be revisited.

To this day I wonder why married people get more play than single people? Just so everyone knows I have never been “officially” married. But a couple of times a few years ago I was “married.” Let me tell you the story.

If you don’t know by now, I’m a finance manager at a car dealership. A few years ago I was a car salesman (yeah, brotha made a big move up in the industry). A friend of mine (a fellow car salesman) had an idea for me. He told me that a lot of people think of car salesmen as crooks and have their own agenda, never thinking of the customer. Trying to take the customer for everything they have. So there are trust issues when it comes between the car salesman and the customer. He told me the customer is more likely to trust me if I was married than if I was single. At that point I was confused, so he explained:

Customers feel more at ease with a married person because when they see the ring they know that this person is a family man who has values. Whereas a single man doesn’t have those same morals or values a married man would.

Hmm…

So I went to the jewelry store. I spent about a hundred bucks on a simple gold band. I put it on the next day. I had the wedding band on for a couple of weeks. The ring really didn’t make my sales get any better but, boy oh boy, my personal life went up a couple of notches.

The next few days I could tell that there was some sort of bulls eye on me. In the grocery store…at the laundry mat…in the parking lot. It seemed as if women would give me a stare that would say “…talk to me…please.” Now don’t get me wrong. I mean, I ain’t a bad looking guy and it helps that I stand almost 6′4″. But these stares were unusual. I am not the type to approach because of my shyness but at the grocery store I decided “…what the hell.”

Her eyes were fixated on me….and my hand??

*record scratching*

WTF???

She goes on to tell me that she had been following me around the store and found me attractive. What she also noticed was that I seemed to be shopping for a bachelor rather than someone with a family (geeez…the things women notice). Again she was staring at my hand. I tell her that I was shopping for myself and “my wife” was out of town for a couple of weeks. She had this mock surprised look on her face.

“Wow…it must be kinda lonely for you, with your wife gone and all.” she said

“Yeah,” I have a sheepish look on my face, “it is.”

“Well…here’s my number. If you get too lonely tonight give me a call. I’ll be home all night.”

She walked away…booty jigglin a little bit more than usual…almost unnatural. I need not tell you what happened. Let’s just say she was more than willing.

Before you say, okay, that was just one woman, for the next two weeks I had similar conversations with several women. Each and every time…they were more than willing. The club seemed to be the hot spot though. For the first time ever in my life, a woman bought ME a drink. And each and every time they were fixated on my hand.

*sigh*

I lost my ring.

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