As another round of
weddings approach this summer, I'm reminded of the time I realized that my
attraction to younger girls was getting awkward. It happened at my friend Cara's wedding. Cara has the tendency to be a bit high
maintenance. In college I would do
crazy things just to watch her reactions. Due to the nuances of our friendship, Cara felt obliged to warn me not
to do anything stupid during her black tie Manhattan wedding. I couldn't attend without doing at
least something though. So I
showed up in one of those conductor maestro tuxes with tails.
Seating arrangements at
wedding dinner tables are as intensely scrutinized as seating arrangements in
grade school, or group divisions during field trips. At my table was my accountant roommate Ryan, Cara's little
sister (Alison) and her friend— both attended Tulane at the time. They were a bit younger than us—let's
just say I attended Alison's Bat Mitzvah when I was in college. Despite the age gap, I was conducting conversation with ease, appropriate because I was in a maestro tux. Eventually we infiltrated the girls' hotel room.
Right off the bat, we felt
old because they gave us a hard time for seeking out Fresh Prince of Belair
on Nick at Nite. "We don't want to see your 80's shows," they exclaimed.
Strangely, these girls
were perfectly fine with making out in adjacent beds. Ryan and I hadn't done anything like that since high school—ok
maybe early college, but the frat house dance floor doesn't count. Just as we were about to give in to
making out basically right next to each other we heard a rapping at the door
and: "Open up. I know you're both
in there!"
It was Cara! The girls rustled us out of their beds
and we proceeded to pick the most cliché hiding places possible in the hotel
room:
I crouched into the
closet, and Ryan simply lied flat behind the back bed furthest away from the
door. After what seemed like an
eternity, the girls let Cara in.
"Where are they?" Cara
exclaimed.
Another voice: "Alison?" It was their mother!
I got that panicky feeling
the kids got in Jurassic Park in the kitchen when they realized there was not
one velociraptor hunting them but two!
I thought when I had
gotten out of high school without being caught mid-makeout by parents, I'd
steered clear of moments like this for good.
Cara found Ryan lying
behind the bed in his tux.
"I'm ruined!" exclaimed
Ryan, in an Enronesque fit. How
bad was it for a buttoned up accountant to be caught with a college girl?
The mom found me cowering
in the closet, drunk. I covered my
eyes and said: "Maybe if I cover my eyes, you won't see me".
Before Alisons' mom could
kick my ass, Cara called a little meeting in the hotel room.
"Mom, what are we doing
here?" She motioned at us both quaking on the bed. She pointed at my maestro tux, shamefully slung over the
chair.
"Look at them. They are fools. We have nothing to worry about, they
aren't going to do anything."
I'll never know if Cara
really believed we were such losers that we'd blow it with our college girls,
but she convinced her mom to let us stay in the room instead of sending us home
to our apartment. With that, they
left—we were too old to make out in adjacent beds so Alison's friend and Ryan
made out in the bathroom.
The following morning,
Ryan and I snuck out the fire stairs (going down 9 stories) avoiding all
parents and older sisters. We
looked like two zombies with pieces of our tuxes draped upon us. As I stood on the threshold of our cab,
my maestro tails flowing in the wind, I took a look back at the beautiful old
hotel. I had some serious thinking
to do about my attraction to younger girls.
I think they are so cute
because when they are just out of college they are so positive: the world is their oyster. They don't seem jaded or stressed. But sometimes the age gap can lead to
awkwardness, incompatibility...or getting hunted by velociraptors. Somehow I need to find a girl that is
going to retain her positive attitude forever regardless of her age. Unfortunately, the post-college world
has a way of eating away at that. Am I limiting my chances of a serious relationship by going for young,
happy-go-lucky girls? When I think
of all of the older girls I meet that seem unhappy, am I just confusing their
unhappiness with responsibility?
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