• My Friend and I Know the Same Pimp

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  Aug 8
  

  A terrible picture of my Uncle Jay and my Mom. Jay has a doctorate and a couple of Masters. Mom has a Masters. Grandma Keats would be disappointed in me as I am the least educated on my Mom's side of the family -- I only have a Bachelors.

  Oh, what a small world it is.

  I went to lunch today with a good friend with whom I’ve just recently gotten back in touch when I got my email back into order.

  But first, I must tell you a little about my background and how I was raised, otherwise you won’t understand my statement about Grandma Keats. My Great Grandma Keats graduated from K-State back in 1913 with a Master’s Degree in Education and then taught school. She was a fireball for her time, not only was she very educated for her time, she believed that women were as capable as men. She chose to keep her maiden name through marriage and passed her name to my Grandfather as his middle name. She very much believed that all people — particularly women — should be educated and be able to work for themselves. These beliefs she passed to her only son, my grandfather, and he passed them to all of his descendants. As a result, my mother’s side of the family is very educated, and the women — myself included — are fireballs.

  OK, so back to lunch with my friend today.

  We were talking, and I asked her about a particular place she was working, and asked her why she decided to leave. And she said — and I’ll never forget this:

  “I left my employer because he was a pimp” and then told me about a web site that was about — of all things — Sugarbabies.

  This started to ring a bell for me. One time, a few years back, I was asked to interview for an SEO contract position for a dating site. When I arrived there, I learned the ‘dating’ site was actually a site where ‘sugarbabies’ would try to find their perfect ‘sugardaddy’.

  Now, at the time, I’d never heard of a sugarbaby. A sugarbaby, for those of you who don’t know, is a woman who wants to be taken care of completely by a rich older man. She does no work, she depends soley on her ‘sugardaddy’ for money.

  Due to my upbringing, this is a completely foreign concept to me. Even when it was explained to me, I still couldn’t wrap my brain around it. I think that was why I remembered the interview — it was just so weird to me.

  I also remembered that if I even thought of taking the job, my Grandmother Keats would fly out of her grave on a bolt of lightening to smite me down.

  I told my friend, “Oh, that is so funny. I had an interview with a guy who ran a sugarbaby site. He was this weird little portly man who lived in this huge mansion on ____ street in Plano and he had this little 18 year old Russian girl who was his sugarbaby.”

  And then she started laughing. Hard.

  We came to realize that the man I interviewed with was her ex-boss. And almost at the same time, we both yelled out

  “WE BOTH KNOW THE SAME PIMP!”

  Of course. This went over very well in the Omni Hotel restaurant where we were eating.

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One Response to “My Friend and I Know the Same Pimp”

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   BillMan said on August 13th, 2008 at 10:05 pm

   You have an impressive familial history up to which you are ably living, in my opinion.

   I’ve gotten job offers from a couple of dating services, as well. Seems to me one of them was in Texas, but I never took them seriously. Probably marked them as SPAM, along with the ones for breast enlargement. *I* get those– Mary gets the ones for male organ enlargement!! You don’t suppose, given the way things have turned out, they knew something, do you…?

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