Office affairs

"Friends with benefits" is great if neither party wants anything more substantial.

 

Which is exceedingly rare.

 

Hey, we copy editors know how to party.

 

Right. I had three instances of this. The first was in college, where I was more into her than she was into me, but I just kept my mouth shut.
The second was the work deal. We had zero conflicts. I'm still stunned by that.
The third one was years later where everything was spelled out and then she started inviting me to family events.

 

Apparently she also had a neighbor who would do her top shelf as well. There were going to be issues but the whole thing was sorted out by HR in an afternoon.

 

That's one on-the-ball HR department.

 

Chief photographer fooled around with incompetent stringer while his wife was pregnant.

 

In that setting, it means wiping your friend's ass when they have a mishap.

 

One of my friends told me his grandfather was put into a home for the last 18 months of his life. At one point, my friend was visiting him and he said, "I married your grandmother when I was 19, right before I left for WWII. She was the only woman I loved and the only woman I had ever been with. In the last year, I've been with nine women."

My friend just about choked.

 

I have heard that STDs in nursing homes are an actual problem.

 

My father-in-law spent a couple of years in assisted living. There were 10 men and 60 women. He wasn't interested, but told us one of the guys had a goal of nailing all 60.

 

I've heard and read this too. But if someday I'm a widower running out the clock in a rest home , I'm thinking it might be worth living with the clap for the last few years.