Sometimes I don’t understand women
I know that the title of this post makes some assumptions. It assumes that I sometime do understand women, which may be a bit of a stretch. I work with college students in leadership development. I have a staff of 10, 3 men and 7 women, that I supervise. My wife and I get to do some fun activities with the staff at different times of the year. For instance last night my wife went out to Portland with the women from my staff on a girls’ night out. They went to an Ethiopian restaurant for dinner and then went out for dessert. Apparently at some point the conversation turned to the subject of skinny dipping. I don’t know what the fascination is with skinny dipping and women. According to my wife, as she recounted the conversation to me, most women at some point in time have gone skinny dipping and a good number of them make it a regular thing. Not only that but the women from my staff are planning on going while we are all on a retreat at the coast this coming weekend.
I am conflicted with this knowledge. One one hand I can see the value of doing something like that in order to share common experiences and therefore strengthen their relationships. On the other hand I think it is dumb and I know it’s illegal. I can’t even set up some sort of prank like waiting until they are all in the water and stealing their clothes; talk about inappropriate. What am I supposed to do? I will probably put the kibosh on it just out of principle. You can’t tell me that jumping into 50 degree water in the middle of the night with no clothes on, opening up the possibility for sand to find its way into the few places it can’t get into when you are wearing clothes, is a good idea.
I would like to take a poll:
Should I stop the exhibitionist water extravaganza or allow it?
and
Is skinny dipping as prevalent amongst the fairer sex as I have been led to believe?
Skinny said,
Wrote on October 19, 2008 @ 11:32 pm
Not as prevalent. Regardless, forget we ever had this conversation. Erase this post, erase your mind.
Aj said,
Wrote on October 20, 2008 @ 9:43 pm
I, . . uh . . . yeah . . . well . . [insert shuffling feet and looking at the floor to hide a sheepish smirk], how bout them Red Sox?
Aaron said,
Wrote on October 21, 2008 @ 12:42 pm
Why stop it? I don’t because of the Candiru (if you don’t know what it is, just look it up). I know it doesn’t live here, but still–it gives me the heebie-jeebies. If they want to be naked, be naked. Though it WOULD be funny if their clothes disappeared…or filled with itching powder (I’ve always wanted to use that after seeing the powder in a gag catalog when I was little
)
I think there are far more pressing concerns than skinny dipping; mainly nudist fly-fishing(!) groups.