Mother Megan's Muddled Monologue -- Dear John

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Date Posted: 22:19:06 08/19/06 Sat
Author: Mark A.
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Subject: Mother Megan's Muddled Monologue

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Megan (habit renewed overnight)
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Date Posted: 08:05:00 08/19/06 Sat
In reply to: Glen 's message, "Please tell us about your smoking Saturday" on 01:03:58 08/19/06 Sat

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I smoked to get dates but not to get laid. If a guy misread the signals, I'm sorry. There are lots of guys out in the world. I tell my girls that everyday. People who smoke are outgoing so they are the most likely to do anything on the edge.
Most drug users smoke. Most prostitutes smoke. But you can't turn it around and say because I smoke, I will, or ever would, put out for any guy with a motel key.
Let's talk about smoking being something interesting people do and not something low-life people do.
Friday night was my daughter's first volleyball match at home. It was a big deal with pre-game announcements planned. Matches usually start later than they anticipate in the time schedule.
So, the family went to the gym. My husband had lots of guys to talk too. The mothers of Neely, Gin and Sandra were not there. I knew where they were. They had stopped nearby for drinks. Teresa, Neely's mother, had called to say they were at a bar and to please call her when the varsity warmups started and they would leave the fun and head to the volleyball match.
Cellphones are so magic, you know.
While the dads were sitting there talking, the kids were loose. My Lisa, who smoked a cigarette right before leaving for the match, stayed in the stands as Gin's younger sisters, Blair and Addison, wandered outside along with Charlene's pair, Louise and Glenda.
I suspect Lisa had been warned against any kind of parking lot smoking while the other girls had more liberal or less-knowing mothers. The other girls could have just been strutting around but Lisa not joining them was a hint to me.
Well, the JV won and here came the varsity. I called Teresa at the bar on her cell and the mothers came running also.
As I said earlier, Gin's mother, Victoria, was once a heavy smoker who got her husband to take up smoking while they were in college. Now, Scott smokes only one nightly and Victoria said he gave one every few nights to Gin.
When I gathered with the moms the other day, Victoria told of her past smoking and the present situation and Dena, Sandra's mother, told of currently smoking one cigarette before meals at work to suppress her appetite.
Teresa, also mother of the boy my oldest, Jessica, likes, said she was smoking today but no telling about tomorrow. About 90 percent of her days since I've known her have gone without a cigarette.
This brings us to the match. While there is a long break between each matches, once they start, there is little break between games. Victoria broke and ran like a wild horse, taking her purse outside. No one went with her. When she returned, Scott, her husband, asked if she had returned to smoking. She smiled, said yes, and asked if he minded. He pulled her next to him. Later he said something profound.
"That's the way we were when we met and at the end of the day, I knew we would be three again," Scott said. Victoria said she was ashamed but glad the stress was gone.
So, Scott and Victoria hit the exit after the second game. A volleyball match can go up to 5 games and this one did. They went outside twice more. The final game has restrictions that make it fairly short but Victoria was quickly outside the exit with cigarette in hand.
By now, I was smoking also as parents and fans filed out. Victoria was an embarrassed puffer. She knew some were gawking at her. She explained to her younger daughters that she had taken up smoking again.
They asked no questions. Dena, by the way, was not smoking. Teresa was but not at a rapid pace.
Soon the girls came out. Their plans for the night were to ride around and do things but activities were to center around Neely's house.
Charlene offered to keep Victoria's kids for the night. They invited Lisa and she said she would just go home with us.
I saw the scene as a rapid return to smoking for Victoria. When we got home, Lisa had a cigarette outside with me. She asked if an addicted smoker can really go back after a night of smoking. I said that was an extreme example but that is a fact you must face when you smoke. I said I'm pretty much in that category, too.
Lisa said it was a shame Victoria could not stay off cigarettes because Addison and Blair smoked and only held back so their mother would not catch them.
When Jessica came home, she said she realized what happened. She said Gin was also aware her mother had returned to smoking, but did not try one. In fact, Jess said Neely did not smoke which surprised Jessica. I still haven't told Jess that Victoria told her Gin gets a cigarette from her father every few days.
I told her I hoped Victoria woke up this morning terribly mad at herself and not even wanting to look at a cigarette. That's a fairy tale, Jessica said.

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Replies:

Re: Mother Megan's Muddled Monologue -- Victoria, 13:39:32 08/21/06 Mon
- Re: Mother Megan's Muddled Monologue -- Addison and Blair, 13:43:10 08/21/06 Mon
- Re: Mother Megan's Muddled Monologue -- Gin, 13:45:35 08/21/06 Mon
Re: Mother Megan's Muddled Monologue -- John, 08:00:46 08/23/06 Wed