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Rich: Even crazy can't outsmart fate when dating
Not too long ago, a friend of mine discovered rather abruptly and rudely that he had dated a crazy woman. Now, in the South, we're used to such. It's actually a common practice. But west of the Mississippi, it's a bit different.
He was bewildered. "She didn't seem crazy. She seemed normal."
I laughed.
Remember: I'm Southern so I have a lot of experience with crazy. "See, that's the problem." I counseled him. "Crazy can hide itself so well that you don't see it for a long time. Matters like this require expert supervision. You should have called me."
Oh, he had just gone out with her casually three or four times, but, in less time than it takes to whip up a bowl of instant grits, a problem had risen up. It was an eye opener.
In the South, our people are basically eccentric. That means our crazy people are off-beat, interesting and almost always entertaining. This woman, though, was the kind of crazy that probably has an official, long name attached to it, the kind of crazy that has no amusement or entertainment value to it. It just has sorrow and aggravation glued to it.
There, but by the grace of God, goes anyone -- man, woman, young, old -- who is in the dating world. You never know when you will link up with someone eccentrically crazy or seriously crazy.
Many years ago, I met a handsome, eligible man at a friend's dinner party. She had seated us next to each other and over dinner, he confessed, "I asked Meg to arrange it where I could sit by you. I've wanted to meet you for a long time."
I thought he was nice and charming, but my instinct screamed to me, "Don't!" Like many people, I often wrestle down instinct with logic or, as we say in the country, good common horse sense. I couldn't find anything wrong with him. Several of my friends highly recommended him and laughed at the nonsense of my
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