Idiot Father of the Week

This guy, who gives a bad name to stay-at-home dads everywhere.

I’ve also been amazed as to how many propositions I’ve received since becoming a househusband. I have a pretty good sense of myself, so take my word that I’m not Brad Pitt but I’m not The Elephant Man either. But until I started staying home, I was never the object of this kind of attention.

Especially one winter, tagging along with her at a business conference.

On the first day I met a woman who really had her act together, single, about 50, and from Boston. A real flirt too. I flirted back. Same thing the next day. Each time we talked, she would talk about the seminars and other BS she’d attended (which my wife never does), and basically roll her eyes while giving the company-line on all the “interesting” things that she had learned. It was pretty funny.

On the second to last night, she said that, finally, tomorrow afternoon, she was actually looking forward to a meeting. I asked her what it was about. I’ll never forget what she said: “The two of us. I’m leaving the morning meeting early. Come to my room and we can have lunch and the afternoon together.”

The next morning, slinking around and probably acting like a burglar, I knocked, went in, and we spent three really great hours together. And that was it. At the last cocktail party, we bantered again.We’ve emailed a few times since them, but never gotten together.

This anecdote comprises nearly 50% of a post that's supposed to address the "perks" of being a stay-at-home dad. The wanker in question mentions his children briefly, though only in the context of noting that his wife's income -- which enables him to remove himself from the paid workforce -- is "good for the kids." I wouldn't insist, of course, that someone like this to wax poetic about the unalloyed joys of fatherhood, but a rough draft of a letter to Penthouse isn't what I'd have recommended either.

The comments section to this post is worth the price of admission, though. The author takes a well-deserved hammering, which -- if you enjoy that sort of thing -- is much more entertaining than the post itself.

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