Thread: Friend making inappropriate advances to my wife
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Old May 12, 2009, 11:46 PM
Peppermint_Patty Peppermint_Patty is offline
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Hi LionKing,

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Originally Posted by thelionkinglives View Post
The text message in & of it self wasn't in poor taste. It was a blanket text to family & friends & none of them are extreme holy rollers or anything so it wasn't going to offend anyone...
Who the heck would take a joke as a come on?
IMHO... the joke was in poor taste only because it was an inappropriate joke to be sending to your friend.

In my own experience... I only send such jokes to people who I REALLY TRUST... people who I know with a high degree of certainty will not misconstrue the message!!

Sooooo... If I don't know how a person would respond or view such a joke, then I just don't send it!!

BTW... I also would never send such jokes to someone that I don't trust (or like very much), if it could be viewed as an invitation for them to send such jokes to me in return!!!

For example... while I may see the humor in such a joke... do you think I would send it to my male boss????

Not on your life!!!

Because I would be EXTREMELY UNCOMFORTABLE if my boss started sending such jokes to me!!

Anyway... the main point I am trying to get at here is this:
Both you and your wife already knew that your friend was a problem child... in the sense that he has been making inappropriate gestures... so why send such a thing??
IMHO..... sending that text message to your friend was about as dumb as trying to pet an animal that is sick with rabies...
"Gee whiz... I knew that damn Rabbit had rabies... but I didn't think it would bite my freakin' nose off when I tried to pet it."

"Now I have to go to the emergency room and get 50 stitches!!!"
Duh!!!!! Not too smart!!!

So yeah... IMHO... your wife did leave the door open with that text message.

Anyway... that's just my $0.02. You're free to disagree if you want, but whatever the case, I do hope everything works out for you.

All the best...

Peppermint Patty

P.S. I am glad you agree with me about the jersey issue. That was definitely Jerry Springer!