The Blind Man Society

A fun, informative and “kinda” childish blog today…

***It was a sunny day. Cold and windy, but sunny. Bee-bop was walking down a road wearing his favorite gold chains, looking fly. WHEN SUDDENLY… Fruit Loop appeared…

This is an excerpt from one of my favorite things to do on a date. And, its called a tandem story. In a tandem story, one person writes an entry or paragraph and then passes it back to the other to keep the story going. This trade off continues, until usually a very interesting man/woman story is complete. What I really like about these, is that its like yin and yang every time you read one….

***Fruit loop, quickly became enamored and so it was that they were together. And in time, she became a very sought after woman. Men from around the world flocked to her. So much so, that Bee-Bop soon had to hire a team of security guards to beat them off with a stick, and protect her around the clock. This was hard, on Bee-Bop. He became depressed, and soon was questioning everything….even, his choice of gold chains. He wandered a lot, often asking the sky and clouds: What does it all mean?

The beauty of tandem stories, is that you can do them anywhere. Dinner in a restaurant, at the bar, coffee shop…and preferably with alcohol. They are great icebreakers, and a real curveball to loosen things up and make them fun when things are stalling and you are running out of conversation topics. The dreaded silence, which is usually the kiss of death on a date is no more with the handy tandem story. Plus, people usually say what they are thinking indirectly, so you can get a good pulse check on things.

***Bee-Bop finished his conversation with the sky and felt better. He returned to Fruit Loop with improved character, and superior state of mind. That woman didn’t stand a chance, yielded almost immediately and was his for good. They went to a club, where Teddy Q. Public was spinning some records and ate sushi, watched Bruce Lee movies on the wall, and they drank to their health and future. Until, Curious George ambled in the door with a bottle of ether, sniffed it and passed out – fumigating the club in the process…and then it was curtains for the night. But, that’s a different story….

This is kind of a childish post. But, I did this one because people have been asking me lately about tandem stories. And, they are supposed to be fun. Some people in my experience, really let it rip and are young with each other when the walls come down. And, also in my experience, you never judge a book by its cover. The creativity that comes out in these stories, and the chance to be creative is so much FUN.

And, in closing, our characters had the following to say: Fruit Loop: Why must one lose one’s innocence to become a woman…she pondered wistfully. Bee Bop responded from his nuclear submarine at the bottom of the ocean years later, after receiving these thoughts via morse code: I see. Let’s blow em’ out of the sky! 🙂

Have a fantastic day out there everyone! Thank you as always for taking the time to read these blogs, and please feel free to leave comments in the box below.

Addendum:

I was thinking about this blog walking home today, and wanted to leave things interpretive, but figured I’d better include the following in case people were offended by what I wrote: This story comes from 21 years ago, and was said in good fun. The above is meant to be illustrative of tragedy in a relationship. Tandem stories, are a great communication tool for daters and to keep a healthy relationship for established couples when verbal words just aren’t happening frequently enough. People sometimes say what they just can’t out loud through these stories as well and they are a great temperature check for things!