Living with Winter, Sleeping with Summer

The first sales meeting I ever organized was held on 9/11. Needless to say, we didn't get a lot of work done that day. But later that evening, as salespeople and marketing types from across the globe stumbled out of our offices and into the local pub, I noticed a fellow manager and a female underling getting awfully close. I chalked it up to the mood of the day, and never thought about it again.

Until last week. During another sales meeting, the same manager told me, after a number of belts, that he and said underling have been "screwing around" ever since that fateful evening in 2001. Both of them are married to other people; he's got a couple kids, she just became a mom last year. He said that back in the day, before she had a kid, they'd fuck around in his office or find a remote, dimly-lit parking lot and screw in the car. Nowadays, their rendezvous are limited to out-of-state meetings that find them staying at the same hotel, but, as he noted, still quite intense.

Now, why people tell me shit like this never ceases to amaze me. Dude, if you've been running this program successfully for the last five years, why would you start blabbering about it now? Jeezus, be thankful you haven't been caught to this point and just let it go. For the record, she's quite hot... him only marginally attractive, so perhaps he's just desperate for someone else to know that he's bagged this premium [and much younger] trim.

In the bigger picture, though, how does an affair like that drag on for so long? Christ, I've seen relationships come and go like dust in the breeze in the time these two have been going at it on the sly. I mean, I can see an affair being something wild and crazy and dangerously exciting at first. And maybe before she had kids, she still had some ya-yas that needed to get out. But five years later? I've never been involved in a torrid affair [sadly], but I figger you'd have to reach a point where you either say, "This has been a nice diversion, but I'm all set with seeing your naked balls," or start re-thinking your position in life.

His summation: "We just really like fucking each other. Far too much to stop."

Hey, I guess it happens.