Yep, have to agree, the

mood in the USA it decidedly down, mostly due to high gas prices and for us here in the northern climes, the

prospect of heating oil nearly double what it was last year (and, it was expensive last year to

boot!!!).

Well, we went to the picnic I mentioned and I had on 4 drops of AE/m on skin, wrists and neck, both

sides and also about 2 drops of A1, same points of application. This was a Tai Chi group and almost immediately

after we got there, the folks except for 2 of us went into their routine for about 20 minutes. The other person not

participating was a 50s female and I wound up sitting about 10 feet behind her as we watched the group do their

exercises. Either my cigarette smoke or the mones bothered her so she moved further away from me by several yards,

lol. She didn't have a friendly demeanor, her body language just said "stay away".

After the exercises we

all socialized a bit and then began eating the food we had all brought along. Although I barely know but a few of

them, I found them, aside from lady #1, all friendly and interesting, most of them being well-educated, liberal,

middle-aged types that would be interested in something like Tai Chi. I had a nice time. For the fun part, I did

get hit on twice by the same lady. She butted me once, her butt to mine and then she patted my butt as well. Sue

was standing near her so I wasn't sure if it was my Sue who had done it so I asked Sue and she said, "no, it was

xxxxxx" and she told me that "xxxxx" is really out there and quite a character. Alas, xxxxxxx is about 75 years old

and has very little hair left!!!

Being that I was going deepsea fishing the next morning I went to bed fairly

early and was up at 3:30AM and took the briefest of showers. On the boat it was mostly guys but there were about 6

women too. One woman was kinda making out with her man while on our way to the fishing grounds (about 2 hours to

get there). She got up after a while and intentionally bumped into me and gave me a "sorry" and I replied, "hey, I

didn't mind at all", she smiled. I had a fun time as all the women on-board eventually gave me some good smiles

and brief conversations or, in one's case, decided I needed warming up (it was cold and raining), she was a bit

loaded but fun. It took me a while to figure out that I was stilled "moned up". The only disappointment was for me

that I didn't catch any good fish, did get 4 sharks though that got tossed back into the ocean.

So, am

glad Bel posted this thread - it's reminded me to start wearing mones again if just for the fun of it as I'm not

interested in any real flings. However, hmmmm, I've noticed a little trend lately in some magazine and internet

articles that are saying that married women are having much more affairs now than they used to and the general

consensus is: "go ahead and do it, try not to upset the applecart but go ahead and have some fun". Sounds good to

me!!!