Got a friend request on facebook a few days ago. I don't know the person but the name sounded familiar--I thought he was a member of one of the photography pages I follow.

It was a nice change from the invites I typically get from friends of friends of a certain friend. Usually young women who spend their days taking sexy selfies or ask me to help them come to America.

A few hours after I approved the gentleman's friendship request, I got an IM from him. He called me dear and wanted to know if we could be special friends.
I asked if he realized that I am a male.
The next night he replied. He ignored my question and told me about his life--reaffirming our special friendship. He want's to know all about me.
Last night I got one of those "thinking of you" IM's.

Wife told me to just block him--he will be asking for money eventually. She spoke authoritatively on the subject.
I would be confused about the wife's advice if I hadn't recently been in her gmail account.
There were two chats with gentlemen. In one, she told him her husband had died and she was available. She loved him and was ready to spend the rest of her life with him.
She stopped talking to him when he started asking for money.
The other guy's chat ended about a month or so ago. I blocked both gentlemen--she doesn't know how to do stuff like that and for sure she is not going to ask me why they suddenly stopped talking to her.

I caught a bit of one of her conversations back in October. Somehow her Imessage was linked with my daughter's phone so when she and her man sent love letters back and forth, her end of the conversation was mirrored on my daughter's phone.
She explained it away.
In the chats I saw on the computer, the guys never once mentioned her name. She rarely called them by name. It was always dear or honey.
But she suddenly wanted to change her phone number a while ago. The latest guy asked if her number had changed and she gave him the current number.

I tried initiating a video chat with the guy, but he never seems to be online. I saved a phone number from my daughter's phone, but no one ever answered.

So much drama for one person.

I have 230 friends on FB. I just scrolled through to see(I gave up after 163). So out of 163 friends, 80 are blood relatives 52 are folks that I know from various churches in California. 12 are friends from work 6 are from FB groups. 6 are people who requested friendship after seeing my pictures on FB. 7 are those scantily-clad beauties.

A quick glance of the remaining 67 shows that about half are family(myself and the wife) A few more are friends and the rest are people who requested friendship after seeing my pictures.

Lol, I was planning to purge but I don't have as many throw-away friends as I thought.

I was writing long before I started taking pictures. I was going to be the next Tolkien--or Terry Brooks.
Unfortunately, I was never published. I did try, so at least I am not regretting "what could have been"

Wrote fan fiction for a while. A bit wordy for some tastes. Another fan fiction writer labeled me a romanticist.

I don't think I could get any good romance stories out of my situation. But put my wife with her mother(as is frequently the case) and you've got something.
When they are together, they remind me of Lucy Ricardo and Ethel Mertz--and not in a good way.