"While I was away..." [Archive] - Richard Bey's Message Board

CRB

08-21-2009, 01:30 AM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qg-heCy0CbQ&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Eflyersphans%2Ecom%2Fforums %2Fshowthread%2Ephp%3Ft%3D126990&feature=player_embedded

Lyn

08-21-2009, 12:55 PM

Excellent! :D

CRB

08-21-2009, 01:53 PM

I watch that and am thankful to be married. :)

unionguy

08-21-2009, 02:25 PM

Pretty intense. Probably the best thing that could of happened to him. Could you imagine marriage and 30 years of her?

marie from yonkers

08-21-2009, 08:03 PM

Opposites sometimes attract. She's hightly emotional, seemingly cold, and screwed up. In his own way, he did not know how to communicate with someone unable to communicate back. And the stories...when you're single, open minded, or divorced like me, you will hear them all; they boggle your mind with shock. Sometimes we pick the best of the best, lucky few, and other times it's a devil in disguise. It takes only one person to bring out the worst in you, when you are with them. They did that to each other...being away, had nothing to do with it. Message is strong even if the story is not factual. He may have subconsciously gone away to be strong for the final departure. People don't change overnight. That was a gradual complication.

Datalapper

08-22-2009, 04:21 AM

Absence makes the tart go wander?

PeteE

08-23-2009, 12:33 PM

Assuming that all of this story is real, it is obviously best that he found this out about her. On the other hand, I think it's very odd that he expected to go away to Europe and have no contact for two weeks. I'm dating someone and I went on a trip by myself for ten days. We stayed in contact. Even if he didn't bring the cell phone with him, there's the contact that most people do after their plane gets in. I find two weeks with absolutely no contact to be odd.

Bart Lidofsky

08-23-2009, 02:46 PM

Assuming that all of this story is real, it is obviously best that he found this out about her. On the other hand, I think it's very odd that he expected to go away to Europe and have no contact for two weeks. I'm dating someone and I went on a trip by myself for ten days. We stayed in contact. Even if he didn't bring the cell phone with him, there's the contact that most people do after their plane gets in. I find two weeks with absolutely no contact to be odd.
I will admit, we are expected to believe that:

A) None of his friends knew that he was going to Europe.
B) He didn't even go to a public Internet terminal in Europe.
C) He didn't get any prepaid phone cards in Europe, or a pay as you go phone (If my kid was going backpacking in Europe, I would see about getting a prepaid phone that would work in Europe).
D) That his girlfriend would have no idea he was backpacking in Europe; I could see it if he only mentioned it in passing a couple of times, but, considering his strongly implied lack of cash, a two-week trip to Europe would be such a big thing that he would be talking about it all the time. Nobody's THAT bad a listener.

Now, there are a number of possible excuses, but when one is traveling alone, especially these days, having no contact with the people back home is as stupid as not listening when one's boyfriend announces a trip to Europe.