OK I have brought out the soap box once again as I have need to vent my frustrations once again.
Traditionally the hair dresser's is the realm of women to have a gossip session but yesterday whilst having a very bad hair cut by an under trained young " hair dresser" ( my normal hair-dresser had the day off) I was forced into a conversation between some jack the lad having his barnet "styled" for his big night out and the equally under trained stylist working on his desired look.
The conversation started off about how men always have an agenda when they take a female friend out for dinner or a drink. In other words us guys only take a female friend out in the hope that sex will follow.
Well once upon a time I might have agreed with this guy but he kept going on about how stupid the girl cutting my hair was because she had been out for dinner with a friend thinking it was only because they were friends and the guy was really was only doing it because he wanted to get her in bed. This conversation cost me a chunk of hair which I can ill afford to loose at my time of life and thinning hair 
. This I could almost excuse but the guy would not shut up and insisted in attempting to get me to agree with him.
I told him that it sounded to me that his conversation was more about his own insecurity than any understanding of friendly relationships between the opposite sexes etc. To this he had no real answer other than I was old and thought differently than young people..lol..lol ( I am 48 he was about 28ish )
He then asked me that if my wife wanted to go away with a male friend for a weekend in a caravan would I let her go ???
My answer to that was that I would be OK with that as I might love and trust her but I would not own her. I have always been of the opinion that in a relationship you are both equal so if you both want to be together then that's how it is and if one wants something else then you should not be together. Its like going out to a night club etc .. if you both have fun and flirt and dance with others etc thats all good and neither partner should get jealous as is more the case than the exception I am sorry to say. As long as my partner wants to come home with me at the end of the night thats what really matters.
I think this guy was missing the number one rule about the sexes.
Men are ruled by whats between their legs not whats between their ears !! The bad thing about this is that men only realise this at a later age (if at all) but women are born with this knowledge 
Once you get to grips with rule number one it is more than possible to have a friendship with the opposite sex with out an agenda I believe.
Oh and if you are wondering why I had someone else cut my hair ??? I had to get my hair cut yesterday as I was working today and would not be back in time to get it cut today and as I will be working all next week I could not bare to wait another week to get my hair cut
So any thoughts on friendships between the sexes ?? Was Harry in " When Harry met Sally " right ?? Is it impossible to have a friendship with the opposite sex without it being sexual ???
