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Entry: Missed opportunity...? (undergoing maintenance) - A7294647
Author: clearly_read - U2144927

This is was what happened to a guy who was in the pub I was in the other night. I'm sorry no one went to talk to him, and if he knows who he is I hope he will come back again next week, because I thought he looked quite sweet

Interesting !

But why would someone be called a slapper just for talking to men ?

From what I have heard and seen over the decades it has always been, until very recent years, regarded as 'strange' for a young, or indeed any woman, to be seen in a pub alone, whether at the bar or sitting at a table.

Use your imagination to understand the reason why! There's even many a bloke who wouldn't go to the local, or any other pub without his drinking mates.

I know the world and its values have changed as the years have progressed, but many still feel the embarrassment of being alone in the pub.

These days it is also quite a dangerous situation to be in for a lonely woman.

If you had 'arrived at his/their table' they would wonder what exactly were your motives for being there.

Sorry to be so frank and negative, but that's how I truly see it!

But the words and rhymes of the piece are good as a basis for a song that you have written, or intend to compose.

Sorry, F, but unsure whether you're talking to me or Clearly Read

Hello Chips,

Sorry, I was talking to Clearly Read with regard to her posting and the poetry of her piece, for which I think she is about to compose a tune, if she has not already done so.

But, of course, I shall always have a word of greeting for you, as one of my earliest and most welcome friends on h2g2, as I have always said over the months I have been here.

You don't seem to be around as much as you did when I first signed on the site, so I don't get much of a chance to speak to you as a consequence.

How are you keeping? Enjoying the postings these days? I find that the interest comes and goes, depending largely on my own taste in subject-matter.


Ron

Ron,

Good of you to clarify ! I must admit, I was a little confused.

How are you keeping ? Not seen much of you around, but then again, I've not visited H2 much in the last few weeks.

A case of laissez faire perhaps !

Bye, lovely to have caught up with you,

Chips

I wish I knew...probably something to do with something someone bought off e-bay.

I know exactly what you are saying, and I frequently use my imagination. Far too much really. There has been something else been going on (from my past) and I think someone or something has been trying to stop me from doing what I want to do, for reasons only best known to themselves.

Exactly, any person would have wondered what my motives were, but I felt too shy to go and talk to him. I felt that it was a crying shame for someone to be left sitting on their own. It's happened to me before. Apart from anything else it was interesting (and a sad fact of life) that no-one went to talk to him.

The reason I was there was to recite a poem. I couldn't play any of my music because there isn't a piano there.

Thank you for your interest

I can see this is confusing Those two posts I just posted were posted to the first 2 people who answered my 'Missed Opportunity' post.

Ah!
Now I am beginning to get the picture! I had misinterpreted some of your piece. You were motivated, in the pub, not for your own self interest but for the happiness and welfare of a seemingly lonely person who appeared to be shunned by all those around him. A noble thought. You cannot be faulted for such an empathetic turn of mind. Would that there were more people around like you, the world would be a nicer place. I quite understand your feeling shy about approaching him to engage him in conversation. But then, they probably knew something about him that you didn't! Although we should give him the benefit of the doubt, I suppose.

So you are a performance poet and musician as well as a composer of music and songs.

That is the art form of the moment. Performance poets can and do make the big time; it is seemingly more valued than the work of the 'introverted poet in a lonely garret' type of writer.

Never mind me and my musings; I'm always getting hold of the wrong end of the stick!

Ron

Thank you Clearly Red and thank you Frontiersman for your valiant efforts to enlighten me.

Don't mention it Chips; you're welcome anytime to my efforts to confuse you as much as I confuse myself!

Ron ( Alias Confucius)

Confucius, he always speak the truth

Me too Hope to see you both at poetry reading this week must dash I'd better not recite THAT one...he would be far too embarrassed

Ron, darling, will you cover for me at the poetry reading please

This is looking better all the time

It is ?

of course

I would cover for you gladly Chips, as I am sure clearly_read would too; but I can't read!

Well, not before an educated and critical audience of the literati anyway!

I am that 'introvert in the garret' I was talking about earlier...and that's without being a talented poet or writer!

Oh! I forgot...