I guess I have to do everything for you guys, although I did appreciate SRV and the Delltones.

Summer's here and the time is right.

Those are both great but this one needs added:

But Phat Mack I do have to say to me the most iconic summer song is indeed Summertime Blues.

Then we have this with a which is a little more upbeat and a genre not yet covered, New Wave.





You're welcome Dom. This is my gift to you for your big tourney win.

Summer is all about telling tales of drunkenness and cruelty:

And then there is this:

Can't live without Brother IZ...

i found IZ on pandora by accident and he is really good with his yuke and high voice.

What are your feelings about texting married women? People tell me my rigid stance--a definite no--is a bit ludicrous.

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Your stance is stupid.

Yeah, that's what I hear. Ha!

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Wookie, no problem with texting happily married women who work for me and with me. I was sort of thinking of unhappily married women who don't work for me.

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Seems like certain subjects or conversations could reasonably be off limits, but that has nothing to do with the communication medium. I guess my answer changes if your concerns are not a matter of propriety but rather are about getting caught.

My concerns are with propriety.

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Well, if you need to tell her it's your rule so that she doesn't keep broaching uncomfortable subjects, then you can tell her that, but you don't have to have that rule with more reasonable women

John Cole; I think your stance comes from proper wisdom.

My rule when talking to unhappily married women: Stay 6 feet away, turn off all recording devices.

(not that the real world ever works that way, but point being, don't invite it unless you want to deal with the consequences of it)

No. It's a mutual friend of at least one particular woman who urges me to text her. My response of I don't text unhappily married women is dismissed as being too rigid.

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Texting aside, if the unhappily married woman is the one confiding in you that she is unhappy in her marriage there may be whole new twist to this thing. Nudge, nudge, wink, wink. Be careful. lol.

I am on John's side in this one. It is just something that is fraught with danger. I will email or text a woman I work with about work as a colleague and wouldn't think twice about it. A woman who I might know that is having marriage troubles who wants to chit chat or confide in me, no way especially if I do not know or have a friendship with them both.
I have a couple who my wife and I are friends with. The guy is someone I would think of as a brother, the gal a sister or sister-in-Law maybe. If I communicate with them I am still messaging them both at the same time or if only one is usually going to be my brother friend. I am not going to say I have never texted the gal but it has always been in the context of setting up us all getting together as couples or at the very least me meeting up with both of them if Fishette is not going to be able to go. And even then I feel a bit weird communicating with just her.
So, Ya, I get it. Now if the intent is get in on a relationship and they are all but broken up/divorced (and I would say to the extent that they are separated) then maybe. But even then I would say it is best left alone until things are really finally done with officially with their spouse.

The entire problem with the premise is that the relationship is between her and her husband. At no point should you be a member of that relationship.

It's one thing if you were already friends before her world went south, but even so, you have to put your foot down and refuse to enter into that stuff. There's a time to be a crying shoulder, but that's stuff she can discuss with her lady friends.

I'm just wondering if I'm the only old-fashioned prig left in the world who considers texting a form of cheating.

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Lol. Maybe if by texting you mean dick pics.

Heaven forbid. I will say that the second time I met this woman she told me about the state of her marriage, including details. Her friend's reaction was "She told you all that?!"

So, no, I won't text her. Hell, I'm not even quite sure why I have her phone number.

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