La Shawn Barber
02.06.07

Lisa Marie Nowak, cool woman Lisa Marie Nowak, attempted murderess Susan Smith, child killer

Oh, how the mighty have fallen! Astronaut (what a cool sounding job) Lisa Marie Nowak has been charged with attempting to murder a “romantic rival.” When I read the story this morning, I dismissed it. Crazy fool, I said to myself. Then I thought about some of the things I’ve done in the name of “love.”

As I believe sexual relations belong within the bonds of matrimony and that women who “put out” diminish themselves in untold number of ways, I’m not too sympathetic toward heartbroken adulteresses or shack up girlfriends or other paramours. (Does anyone use that word?)

Former astronaut Mrs. Lisa Marie Nowak apparently was laying up with one Bill Oefelein, astronaut, and went to the Orlando Airport allegedly to kidnap and/or kill a woman named Colleen Shipman, who Nowak suspected of also laying up with Oefelein. Nowak walked up to Shipman’s car in disguise, asked for a ride, started crying when rebuffed, and sprayed pepper spray in the car when Shipman rolled down the window.

Nowak had gloves, a BB gun, steel mallet, a four-inch knife, rubber tubing, and trash bags in her car. The former astronaut said she just wanted to “talk” to Shipman. Norwak faces first-degree attempted murder charges. Good grief. She’s in serious trouble.

Pictured above is Nowak pre-dumb crime, Nowak post-dumb crime, and Susan Smith, the nitwit who drowned her precious sons (the baby was still strapped in his car seat) because the guy she was in “love” with didn’t want kids. This woman still breathes, although she should be buried six feet in the ground, having succumbed to a lethal combination of poisons flowing through her veins. But her jury didn’t want her dead. Oh, well. :?

But enough of that! May I assume most of my readers have never killed or attempted to kill anyone for “love?” Sure, we’ve all done a few stupid things for similar reasons. What these women did had nothing to do with love, and most likely, neither did our strange/dumb/embarrassing episodes. It’s all about selfishness, too little self-respect, and a whole lot of stupidity.

What was the strangest/dumbest/most embarrassing thing you ever did for “love?” If it was something illegal or unsuitable to mention in mixed company, tell us about the second (or third) most strangest/dumbest/most embarrassing thing you ever did for “love.”

OK, I’ll go first. Many moons ago, while visiting my family, I was so lovesick over this guy I couldn’t eat, sleep, or think straight while separated from him for two weeks one week (even worse). And we’d met only a few weeks before that (!). I was living in a different state and hadn’t seen my family in close to a year, but my mind was preoccupied with him. What was he doing? Who was he doing it with? He called me only once today. Why hasn’t he called again?

My behavior definitely was dumb. The quality time I could have spent with my loved ones was wasted thinking about some guy. A few weeks after I returned to where he was, the “romance” was over.

Now, that was for “love.” I’ve done much dumber and downright dangerous things for reasons other than love. Drunkeness played its part in my life’s most dramatic moments, but that’s a topic for a different post.

Your turn!

(Source for second photo: Red Huber, Orlando Sentinel)

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53 Comments
  1. first!!=))

    anyway, i heard this on rush today. apparently the lady drove 900 miles wearing a depends-type diaper so that she wouldn’t have to stop. can you imagine how white her knuckles were during that drive? guys: would you like to be the one caught in this love triangle?=))

    Comment by thomas — 02.06.07 @ 2:22 pm


  2. Don’t forget the part about her driving from Houston to Orlando in ADULT diapers so she wouldn’t have to go to the bathroom.

    This madness has been cracking me up ALLLLLLLLL day!

    http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/4529766.html

    Comment by Tiffany in Houston — 02.06.07 @ 2:23 pm


  3. Guys, have you ever been ‘tested’ by a lady who wants to see how malleable you are? For example, being sent to a grocery store to pick up ‘feminine items’? I passed the test but eventually flunked the class. :)

    Comment by Doug — 02.06.07 @ 2:31 pm


  4. Sorry, La Shawn-that smiley looks out of place with what I wrote. The lady I mentioned eventually married someone else, and as far as I know they are still happy. And I’m happy too, to be single right now, which is what I meant to show by the smiley face.

    Comment by Doug — 02.06.07 @ 2:34 pm


  5. Being a guy, I am not allowed (see: Guy Code, Article II, Section 27) to admit to having done anything dumb for love. That’s my story, and unless someone finds my wife and gets her to comment, I’m sticking to it.

    Comment by RedBeard — 02.06.07 @ 2:42 pm


  6. There’s a bench on my college campus where I used to wait for this particular guy to get out of his English class. He wanted to be friends, I was in love, or so I thought. The list of stupid things I did is fairly extensive (like typing his med school applications, we’re talking troo luv). And the bench is still around as a reminder, showing up in campus promotional pictures and such. 20 years later, I still cringe when I see it.

    Comment by Belinda — 02.06.07 @ 2:48 pm


  7. I was flat broke, just out of school. I charged a $1300 airline ticket to my credit card so that my boyfriend could go visit his family overseas for 3 months. In all that time, he never wrote once, or called me once. A hard lesson learned.

    Comment by Kim — 02.06.07 @ 2:58 pm


  8. I dated a rich Kuwaiti who all my friends called “the baby,” because he behaved like one. He drove like a maniac almost killing us and others many times. He was always threatening to beat up waiters and anyone else I made eye contact with. I had to keep my eyes straight front when we were in the car. But I luuuvvved this idiot. We were inseparable. Until he pulled a gun on a guy in L.A. and stole my purse, at the same time, ripping off my bracelet and cutting me so bad that I bled all over the place, in the lobby of a motel, so I couldn’t take a bus back to Oakland to get away from him. Even then I kept seeing him off and on. He looked like Prince. He was very cute. No excuse, I know.

    Comment by Miss Carnivorous — 02.06.07 @ 3:01 pm


  9. I paid this guy’s rent my first year of college..it took 6 years and a baby to learn my lesson.

    Comment by Lakeisha — 02.06.07 @ 3:01 pm


  10. I must be weird…I can’t think of one really stupid thing that I’ve done for love…except to cry over a guy after the breakup when I’d had too much to drink.

    I’m also one of those strange people who never gets back with someone after a break-up. I’ve never been able to understand the mentality behind it - if he doesn’t want you, why on earth would you want him??? No man is worth trashing your principles for. You are what you do.

    It really surprised my first husband that after he asked for (and filed for) a divorce so he could be with his girlfriend, that I was totally uninterested in reuniting. I’ve never been able to play the “go away-go away, come here-come here” game…and have broken up with more than one man who has tried to play that game with me.

    Thankfully I am now married to a man who thinks the way I do. No games. We’re together because we want to be together and can’t imagine ever again being with anyone else.

    Comment by ElvenPhoenix — 02.06.07 @ 3:37 pm


  11. Girl-honey, I am too paranoid to use my Christian name, so you got my online one and blog. What I did for love…
    -after 2 years of online chat, flew out to the Capital of Australia to meet the young chap (I’m from California).

    Details: I will leave a lot for space as I tend to be too chatty. He is 10 years younger than me, does not drive, has little ambition in life, his walk with the LORD is shaky (he is not even attending a church right now), and he is commitment-phobic. The lad quits jobs easily, has a hard time committing to one woman, has a hard time even committing to church. Never tells the full story about anything he does to anyone.

    So anyway, I wasted 3 years of my life pining for this guy…him toying with me…from 2003 to 2006.

    I had a car accident when I was so upset at this guy cowardly ignoring me for 2 months instead of breaking up with me. He though decided to keep in contact after a friend called him after my accident. What drama! (At least there were no adult diapers or weapons involved in this soap-opera). That was Sept 2005 and I spent one year after that trying to “win him back” ..Oh mercy on my soul. I finally let go of him and told him “I am done here, please do not communicate with me” Nov. 2006. That is so sad, ain’t it. It took me so long. My own mother could not believe it and wondered why it took me so long to wake up!

    I overlooked other guys in favor for this wishy-washy-without-loyalty-to-nobody-guy. I have woken up to the fact that even though I am pushing 40, overweight, bossy and not a raving beauty, other guys like me! Whoa! I did not know! And some guys even his (ex-bf’s) age are MORE MATURE THAN HIM!

    I could have saved my money and heart-break and time and always stayed home chasing men! (Not that I should chase…I am trying to let guys pursue me since I tend to be old-fashioned now that I am a born-again believer).

    There are plenty of high quality brothers in the LORD in my Valley. I just need to open my eyes to them!

    And being single is not the same as being alone. And I can have joy now without that dark cloud hanging over me! Praise God!

    Ex-bf in Oz now is waffling in his regrets towards me…he periodically sends me apology e-mails hoping to fish I guess for another lukewarm relationship with me. But I ain’t biting, even if he got his lazy-butt on a plane and flew out here to Silicon Valley.

    I AM DONE.

    PS: sorry for the novel La Shawn.

    Comment by duchesszone — 02.06.07 @ 3:40 pm


  12. Astronaut charged with kidnap attempt

    A NASA astronaut charged with attempting to kidnap a romantic rival in a love triangle with another

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  13. I’ll bet having sex was her was a real ‘blast’, almost ‘out of this world’, but you’ll never feel the ‘earth’ move with all that ’spacyness’…

    Sorry… :)

    Wait til the Late Night guys get a hold of it…

    Comment by TexasFred — 02.06.07 @ 3:56 pm


  14. Love Stinks, Yeah, Yeah…

    A married astronaut lost her head, drove nearly 1000 miles in a diaper to confront and attack another astronaut, who was involved with her love interest, who, by the way, wasn’t her husband. What makes people snap and lose everything?

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  15. I’m with LaShawn - I’ve done some pretty stupid thinks out of drunkenness thinking I was in love. But the outright dumbest thing I’ve ever done occurred after a fight with my ex during which not only did he call me a fat ass piece of s**t and threw me out of the house (when I was sick with food poisoning). Flat broke, no job, no future, sick, no hope, no home, no friends (he kept people out of my life) lots of debt (money spent on trying to make him happy) and no active and current relationship with God, I checked into a motel and took a bottle of sleeping pills. Praise God. I woke up 25 hours later with skinned knees and a born again love of the Lord. After that I changed the day I celebrate my birthday — now I celebrate my born again day.

    Now I hope the only one I ever get “stupid” over is Jesus.
    When God is first in your life you won’t be doing stupid stuff, because you will see that the relationship with him is more important. The question that determines my actions is do I want to please God, please some other person, or please myself.

    Comment by Changed Life — 02.06.07 @ 5:32 pm


  16. Think about the psyche of that woman. Here she is probably one brilliant scientist and she puts on diapers so she won’t have to stop to relieve herself but she apparently fails to recognize that most cars would need to stop for gas at least 3 times on a 1000 mile trip, at which time she could “go” while the car was gassing up? Instead, she chooses to soil herself? I hear a plea of insanity coming.

    I can’t compete with that loveSICK story.

    Comment by dianne — 02.06.07 @ 6:28 pm


  17. “Its all about selfishness, too little self-respect, and a whole lot of stupidity.”

    That is so true. Once, I wanted this guy I liked to invite me to see him in Chicago. I waited and waited. We talked on the phone, but that wasn’t enough for me. So, being a flight attendant at the time, I faked a “working” trip to Chicago in hopes of forcing him to see me. I booked a hotel, put on my uniform, and flew to Chicago.

    How pathetic!

    We saw each other. For me, I thought we were making love — for him, meaningless, free sex from a bimbo flight attendant. He quickly made an excuse, saying he had to get up for work early the next day. I felt horrible. And it was my fault. I was everything in the above quote.

    The flight home from “Dummyville” Chicago felt like an eternity.

    Comment by Kathy — 02.06.07 @ 6:46 pm


  18. Well, I threatened to beat this girl up who was showing interest in the guys I was in love with (even though I was dating someone else at the time). I used a fake name and called her to threaten her. Stupid.Stupid.Stupid. Yeah, that’s not among the happy high school memories. ;-)

    But the chick left him alone.

    And I ended up dumping him twice. LOL

    Comment by DragonLady — 02.06.07 @ 7:06 pm


  19. Redbeard is correct. NO stories permitted. Article 28 does permit the purchase of Valentine’s gifts if an “award” is reasonably to be expected.

    Just the facts mam.

    Kemp

    Comment by kempermanx — 02.06.07 @ 7:09 pm


  20. What was the dumbest thing I’ve done for love? You mean aside from acting like a blubbering giddy school kid whenever my future wife would walk into the room, or I’d hear her voice on the phone, or see a picture of her or someone even mentioned her name in my presence? Aside from that,nothing dumb. Yes, I still get giddy when I see her.

    Comment by Chuck — 02.06.07 @ 7:43 pm


  21. The things we do for love-spaced out love

    This story definitely falls under the freaky deaky category. Of course it has absolutely nothing to do with love. Lashawn Barber states it has more to do with “….selfishness, too little self-respect, and a whole lot of stupidity.”

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  22. About those diapers…I thought it was … well, psychopathic … or something. Then I realized that it was probably part of her usual equipment on space flights. Another little detail I probably would just as soon not have known…! I mean…who _thinks_ about these things!

    Poor lady. Definitely some kind of a mental breakdown. Somebody needs to review their practices on checking personnel mental/emotional health….

    Comment by suek — 02.06.07 @ 8:05 pm


  23. Overall, I became what I shouldn’t for guys–to conform to them for approval.

    Comment by mj — 02.07.07 @ 2:06 am


  24. I had a best friend hit on a girl that I was involved with. It happened at a party and I had to choose between clobbering my friend and leaving the party (because the girl, to my dismay, did not tell him off). Since I couldn’t punch my best friend, I hopped on my motorcycle and left.

    I was so mad that I didn’t even notice how fast I was going until I ran a red light right through a busy four lane intersection.

    Scared everyone, including me (by the Grace of God no one was hurt). Braked and stopped on the side of the road and shook for about 10 minutes. Never saw the girl again and the guy and I stopped being friends.

    That was 29 years ago, when I was in the Navy. Just a couple of years ago, that guy called me up out of the blue, having found my phone number on the internet. Turns out he’s gay, in a “committed” relationship with his “partner” in the northeast. Holy smokes!

    I remember how upset I was at that girl for not being loyal to me. But I also remember how pretty she was.

    Comment by benm — 02.07.07 @ 8:27 am


  25. I was working as a desk receptionist when someone who I thought had been too attractive to even look at me tried to start a conversation with me. I was so shocked I fell out of my chair. Granted, that’s a random reaction, not an actual act, but I can just imagine the dumb things I’d do if that relationship had gone anywhere!

    Comment by Jay — 02.07.07 @ 8:43 am


  26. The dumbet thing I’ve done for love was to get married…..to the wrong woman.

    Comment by Jeff Turner — 02.07.07 @ 8:47 am


  27. The stupidest thing I ever did was mistake lust for love and hormones for emotions. Several times. Once with very tragic results. Sometime between then and my engagement 11 months later (to a different lady), I got an inkling of the difference. In 21 years of marriage, I’ve learned to recognize the difference - most of the time. (And yes, I still lust for my wife.)

    Comment by MikeM — 02.07.07 @ 9:01 am


  28. I gave up my career to move across the country to be with a girl. Stupid, stupid, stupid!

    Comment by John — 02.07.07 @ 9:02 am


  29. If this crazy astronaut drove with diapers so she wouldn’t have to stop to use the bathroom, wouldn’t she have still had to pull over to get gas?

    Being a man, I had traveled hundreds of miles just for the pleasure of sex. I also dated a gold-digger who I allowed to nearly ruin me financially. We guys can do stupid stuff too over “love”. I have since recovered, moved on and now know what to look for in a godly woman.

    Message for the guys, if you’re a believer, read Proverbs 31:10-31. It describes the type of woman that God wants you to have. The best part of that scripture is that it doesn’t mention her looks.

    Comment by Tracey — 02.07.07 @ 10:10 am


  30. I wonder if someone asked this astronaut if she could drive across the country without going to the bathroom, would her answer have been, “Depends”? :)

    Comment by benm — 02.07.07 @ 10:23 am


  31. Her children rise up and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praises her: “Many women have done excellently, but you surpass them all.”

    How did they know, so long ago, what my sons and I were going to say? ;-)

    Comment by RedBeard — 02.07.07 @ 10:23 am


  32. Hi La Shawn!

    LOL @ TexasFred (#13) :-)

    I’ve done a lot of dumb things period, but to narrow it down to those things done as a result of blind love…

    My sophomore year at University of Georgia, I fell in love with my first boyfriend. I thought the sun rose and set on him. In the middle of the Spring semester, I accepted a summer job on campus as a Camp Counselor for incoming freshman.

    Well, during the last month of Spring semester, this guy that I thought I was in love with began seeing another girl. I was heartbroken, to say the least. I failed all but 2 of my classes (didn’t even show up for the final exams). I called my dad the last day of Spring classes and asked him to come pick me up, because I was leaving UGA for good. I left UGA over a guy. This was the spring of ‘95.

    All’s well that end’s well sometimes, though. Since I ended up at home the summer of ‘95, I began working at Six Flags Over Georgia. So was the guy that I would eventually marry. :-)

    Comment by Tami Gill — 02.07.07 @ 10:36 am


  33. First a bit of medical jargon.

    Many women (especially following childbirth) have “stress incontinence” - passing urine after coughing or straining or spontaneously. As an anesthesiologist, I have cared for many women with this problem. Many wear adult diapers.

    I lived near NASA from 1982-1987. Many of my neighbors worked at NASA. We knew 3 of the Challenger astronauts that died.

    Astronauts were “the best and the brightest”. They were VERY carefully screened, and among the most stable personalities I have known.

    There are several problems with the working environment of these people that may be, in part, a result of the Military, and especially, NASA’s obsession with political correctness:

    1 The extremely close working relationship of the astronauts, often confined, and the mixing of sexes, has obvious implications for sexual relationships, This has been demonstrated in the Military - where unwed pregnancy is epidemic.

    2 Just look at the “color and sex mix” of the shuttle astronauts. In the interest of being PC, the Military is famous for putting underqualified women in key roles, at times with disasterous results. NASA has also been thought to send up some underqualified people to keep the mix PC.

    Ms Nowak may NOT have been screened as carefully as others. Of course, we will never know, because the cover of “medical privacy” and “National Security” will obstruct any investigation.

    Comment by Frank Zavisca — 02.07.07 @ 11:06 am


  34. Fortunately, most of the self-confessed dumb things can be safely placed in the category of it seemed like a good idea at the time.

    My stupidity involved pursuing a woman I shouldn’t have, and in the process losing a couple of friends. A painful lesson, but well learned. The only downside (upside?) is that I have pretty much a zero tolerance for bullshit. So my dating life is a lot like the NCAA basketball tournies: 1 and done.

    But I’m good with that.

    Comment by I R A Darth Aggie — 02.07.07 @ 12:09 pm


  35. I see that the Proverbs woman is mentioned. Another is mentioned before that, in 25:24: It is better to live in a corner of the roof Than in a house shared with a contentious woman.

    Some wisdom need not be purchased at a high cost.

    Comment by I R A Darth Aggie — 02.07.07 @ 12:16 pm


  36. I couldn’t pass this one up. I have been fairly entertained by this NASA love triangle. I’ll give you one out of my top three dumbest things done in the name of love.

    I GOT MARRIED!!

    Yes, that was one of the dumbest things I ever did for love. My first wife and I had been shacked up in WY for about a year planning to get married…I thought. She got cold feet and move to California to be a nanny. About six months later I had to go to California for a temporary duty assignment with the military. I looked her up and we got married at the end of my 28 days in CA. She was from a VERY Catholic family. She and all her siblings went K-12 of Catholic school, her dad was the grand poopa of the Knights of Columbus, and her mom was on staff at the Catholic grade school. She did not want her family to know she had skipped her church requirements for a mixed religion marriage with a Southern Baptist preacher’s son. Did I mention that I left her in CA after the wedding and did not see her for several months. Finally, almost a year after our little Palm Springs chapel wedding and after an unofficial separation and several flings by both of us, she decided to come home to me. We announced our “engagement” ;-) and jumped through the Catholic hoops to get our marriage blessed by the Catholic Church. The marriage lasted barely a year after the big church wedding. I went my way and she went her way. She married a Jehovah’s Witness nine weeks after our divorce was final and converted to his faith. Her radical change in religious beliefs along with the quick remarriage were the only things that gave me peace that I was not totally at fault in the failure of our marriage. I am no longer religious, just Christian and happily married to the right woman.

    Comment by Hank Osborne — 02.07.07 @ 1:01 pm


  37. I admit something is wrong with her, yet she had the forsight to put on diapers to avoid losing time to go to the restroom and she drove from Tx to FL. I’m sorry she’s looney but to a point, I think she should be prosecuted just like anyone else would.

    Comment by Bella — 02.07.07 @ 1:06 pm


  38. To be fair, it’s likely that fallen Astronaut Nowak didn’t use the diapers but had them with her just in case. We women know how dangerous it can be to stop at service stations:-|:-)

    Regarding the Susan Smith reference, I’ve have always felt a large degree of sympathy for her since immediately after she confessed she express remorse and regret in a lot of ways that most murders never do. During trial she wanted the death penalty because she felt she deserved it. For me, accountability and remorse does count for something.

    I pray for both these women who have somehow lost their souls:`-(

    I pray for both of their lost souls.

    Comment by middleground — 02.07.07 @ 2:13 pm


  39. dumbest thing I did for love? I found out that the guy I had been seeing was cheating on me with multiple people. He was a singer, so he not only traveled, but had a hoard of groupies following him. Being in the music business I should have known better, but if I knew then what I knew now, right?

    I waited till the lights went out in his house, and I poured lighter fluid on his car, set it on fire and sat in my car across the street and watched it burn.

    Not one of my finer moments…I guess I could blame it on the fact that I was 18….but boy! did it feel good, lol.

    Other than that, I loaned a guy 200 bucks once and never heard from him again, and I’ve stayed with someone way too long, for love.

    Chase

    Comment by Chase — 02.07.07 @ 3:20 pm


  40. My dears, the Space Case wore the diapers in order to avoid stopping to use restrooms as part of her plan to kill her rival. The more she stopped, the more chance people would be able to identify her. Some may even have recognized her.

    Her intent was to drive 950 miles, commit murder and return, preferably without anyone realizing she had been gone. Her alibi would have been that she was 950 miles away at the time her rival was killed. Then she would swoop in and comfort her love object. She is a very, very bad lady and we wasted millions on her NASA training.

    Comment by Miss Carnivorous — 02.07.07 @ 3:23 pm


  41. The dumbest thing I ever did for love was the Effie White thing from Dream Girls. I begged him (but without the singing).

    Comment by SkyePuppy — 02.07.07 @ 5:31 pm


  42. #26
    “The dumbet thing I’ve done for love was to get married…..to the wrong woman.”

    Hey, is that the Jeff Turner I thinking of? From Adout?

    If thats you, whats up man!!

    If not, whats up anyway!

    Comment by Jerry McClellan — 02.07.07 @ 6:50 pm


  43. Many moons ago, while visiting my family, I was so lovesick over this guy I couldn’t eat, sleep, or think straight while separated from him for two weeks…

    My sister behaved this way with a guy also. They’re now married with four kids. ;-)

    I guess these things turn out better when the other party feels the same way.

    Comment by baldilocks — 02.07.07 @ 9:35 pm


  44. Oh and I have done many idiotic things for “love,” but the main one was this: to lose my virginity before getting married.

    Comment by baldilocks — 02.07.07 @ 9:51 pm


  45. The story and most of the comments support my contention there is a widespread confusion between “love” and “in love”.

    One is a commitment the other is a glandular condition.

    Chuck

    Comment by Chuck — 02.08.07 @ 7:33 am


  46. Yep, Chick, that’s so true. If only people would recognize that giving in to the glandular condition is just fine, excellent in fact, AFTER the whole love/commitment/marriage thing is in place.

    Comment by redbeard — 02.08.07 @ 8:10 am


  47. Did I just call you Chick?

    More coffee. Need more coffee.

    Comment by redbeard — 02.08.07 @ 8:11 am


  48. You wrote: Most of my readers have never killed or attempted to kill anyone for “love?”

    I bet more than you realize have… abortion. Young girls whose boyfriends tell them they don’t want the baby and encourage her to abort. So she aborts that life out of “love” and likely never hears from him again. Actually most abortions are murder out of love for self.

    Comment by Lisa — 02.08.07 @ 8:41 am


  49. During my divorce I “fell in love” over the internet with a woman I had never seen. I flew across the country to meet her and the fantasy woman in my mind was not the nice but not my type woman I met. It fizzled slowly from there, but I remain amazed at how lonely and desperate I had let myself become. It was because I was not close to my Lord. But He is so patient and loving with me, now I am married to a wonderful Christian woman who is better than I deserve.

    Trey

    Comment by Trey — 02.08.07 @ 11:00 am


  50. To Jerry McClellan:

    Hey Jerry, I think you have the wrong person, but anyway, hey, how are you?

    Comment by Jeff Turner — 02.08.07 @ 1:29 pm


  51. #39 Chase, did they write a country song about you? Gosh, in my house that would make you almost royalty.

    Comment by benm — 02.08.07 @ 1:37 pm


  52. Guys, Gals, I hear a lot of people assuming that what they have heard on the news about this woman’s motives and intentions were, are true.

    Innocent until proven guilty.

    Suspicious, yes, but let’s at least wait and see what a trial reveals.

    Comment by Tugboat — 02.08.07 @ 1:49 pm


  53. …I wasn’t very mature during my “first love” experience back when I was 18. However, the silliest thing I ever did was, after we broke up, was to call her up just to hear her voice on the other end of the line and then hang up…kind of like the character that Adam Sandler plays on “The Denise Show” on Saturday Night Live…

    Comment by sonofclem — 02.08.07 @ 11:28 pm