4 April - Old men are jealous too

I love this one. L. has a good friend from uni days, G. who's been dumped by his girlfriend in a bit of a sudden manner. They shared the same flat and although she's moved out he couldn't bear to stay there and spent a week at my friend's flat. After a week, she suggested he goes and stay at her mum's as she has a large house in a leafy suburb and she knows him. That's how far i'd got and had indeed asked recently 'How's G. getting on?' He's quite dishy this G., early 40's and with one of those faces that would have fit in an old Marlon Brando movie, you know, could have been a boxer etc, but stylish with it. He's a hairdresser after all.

So am at her house recently when he's there doing her hair and she's telling him about her stepfather being worried/jealous of him and her mother, as 'young' G. stayed with them for a month or so and according to stepdad he had it made... nice house, food, a swimming pool, why would he ever want to leave?

The look on poor G's face! To have been the cause of worry to his benefactors! And you know, it's sweet that stepfather has watched The Graduate and worries about transgenerational affairs, but L.'s mother is mid sixties and well, she looks good for her age but, not up G.'s street, never mind that he's still cut out about the ex girlfriend. Stepdad is 78 odd, so these fears/worries never leave us it seems. A strappy 40 something must have looked the picture of fitness and therefore elicit some lust in his partner of twenty odd years.

And there I was believing the faction that says that after a certain age threshold you don't care about sex and jealousy and all that. Aahhh....