Daytime Friends

[HeinekenMan]

I have a night-time lover, but it dawned upon me recently that I don't really have many friends who live in the same state. I've been here in the south now for almost two years, and I've yet to play a round of golf. I've been out for beers twice. Once when I took a job and then again when I quit said job.

I'm just curious as to how people develop new friendships when they're starting over in a new city. I'd like to join a softball team or something. Aside from work-related acquiantances, though, I truly don't know anyone.

 

[shotglass]

I don't think it's just me; it's one thing you find out early about working night-time. There aren't a whole awful lot of guys to do day-time stuff with ... outside of co-workers.

But in the past year, I re-united with one of my old high-school buddies, who I hadn't known was working 10 miles away. We now go out to lunch every other Friday, and it's great.

 

[HeinekenMan]

Well, as a stringer, I have a lot of free nights as well. So the title probably should have been more general. I did meet one person today who could have been a friend. She wore a black skirt and seemed a little strung-out. After buying a pack of smokes, she walked across four lanes of traffic with her leather satchel on her shoulder. According to a gas station employee, " she said she worked strictly late night, early morning."

 

[shotglass]

That's a friend most stringers cannot afford to have.

 

[HeinekenMan]

That's a friend most stringers cannot afford to have.

Touche

 

[BYH]

I've got five friends. We hang out at an coffee shop in the city and frolick in a water fountain. We know we'll be there for each other.

 

[pressboxer]

... nighttime lovers, hopin' no one else discovers ... [/bad70skennyrogerssong]

 

[HeinekenMan]

I've got five friends. We hang out at an coffee shop in the city and frolick in a water fountain. We know we'll be there for each other.

Wouldn't it be six friends? You're forgetting to count Rosie Palmer.

 

[pallister]

I got nothin'. Since my divorce five years ago, I haven't figured how or where people make friends. I'm lost.

 

[shotglass]

I've got five friends. We hang out at an coffee shop in the city and frolick in a water fountain. We know we'll be there for each other.

Yeah, but then you try to make the Rembrandts play that song in 8 seconds.

 

[Freelance Hack]

If you're under 40, see if there's a young professionals group in your area.

 

[JayFarrar]

I'll just say that shifting from a regular newspaper job to what I do now, dayside, M-F, was one of the harder things I have done.
It sounds stupid, but it really has been tough.

 

[SoSueMe]

I like working afternoons/nights. Time to bank, shop, do things around town. Sleep in if I want.

I have lunch with the better half once a week. Of course I have my two days off, too.

It just sucks telling friends "no" to a lot of weekend things But then I realize how much money I/we are saving 'cause I'm not out partying, boozing, etc. on the weekends.

 

[melock]

I've got five friends. We hang out at an coffee shop in the city and frolick in a water fountain. We know we'll be there for each other.

Wouldn't it be six friends? You're forgetting to count Rosie Palmer.

Rosie Palmer doesn't have to be your friend. She's attached to you no matter if she likes you or hates your guts. She's screwed!

 

[HeinekenMan]

I don't want to sound like a pathetic whiner.

But I have two kids, 3 and 1. So I pretty much stay home during the day until my wife gets home at about 4 p.m. We go on little trips to the park and so forth, but that's about it. With the cold weather that we had, I didn't leave the house other than to cover something for about two weeks. The only adults I saw were my wife and the people at the game.

I'm just thinking that it might be nice to have some contact with other adults that doesn't involve me asking about the team's defense.

 

[SoSueMe]

It's weird, everywhere I've lived, I've always hung out with guys from the other media outlets, be it radio, TV or even the competition.

 

[JayFarrar]

Well you could think about getting together with some other parents during the day for play dates for the kids. The temptation for some hot MILF action might be too much to bear though, but if you could manage it, even a very small-town has stay-at-home moms, you could meet them through a community center or church. Their husbands might even be cool with you hanging with their wives, since you'd be the super-cool sportswriter dude for the paper. You might even become friends with the husbands.
Next time you're covering a game, if one of the coaches is about your age, ask if he/she's got kids and if they say yes, ask where they take them during the day since you're looking for a place to take yours.

 

[melock]

Well you could think about getting together with some other parents during the day for play dates for the kids. The temptation for some hot MILF action might be too much to bear though, but if you could manage it, even a very small-town has stay-at-home moms, you could meet them through a community center or church. Their husbands might even be cool with you hanging with their wives, since you'd be the super-cool sportswriter dude for the paper. You might even become friends with the husbands.
Next time you're covering a game, if one of the coaches is about your age, ask if he/she's got kids and if they say yes, ask where they take them during the day since you're looking for a place to take yours.

That sounds like a good idea. I need to get me some kids so I can hangout with MILF's whose husbands are OK with it.