Alright -I'm starting to feel a little pathetic. I know at least TWO of you are back from holiday.

I am writing today to make an observation on Men in Atlanta. I'm sitting in Caribou coffee again this morning and after looking up from my laptop for the first time in an hour, I was shocked.
Let me tell you why.

It's a small Caribou but currently sitting and enjoying hot caffeinated beverages are the following: 14 people - 5 of them women. Of the 9 men, 6 have grey hair or are balding, and not in a good George Clooney/Richard Gere kind of way. Of the three that appear to be under 35, one looks like a Chinese chipmunk with bad hair and white chinos on. Eew. One has a receding hairline and looks like a dead fish. Finally, the one sitting across from me looks about 28. Hair gelled and looks a little like he has hairplugs, when actually he doesn't. I wish someone had warned him. Not dressed badly. Had two coffees (yay, appreciates caffeine as much as I do). Good shoes. But he's married.
Everyone is bloody well married.

Did I mention the cute guy at work? It's a bit of a creep story, actually. For the sake of a good story, will call him Southern Gentleman - SG for short. He is, in the words of my mother, from a great old southern family, well-mannered, well-kept and fairly attractive. The older ladies at work all swoon when dealing with him because as they are always saying, he is the perfect Southern Gentleman.
Well, I had been at work about a week when I'm at home one day indulging in some red wine. Unfortunately, so had my mother and she saw fit to start telling me about some people at work, including SG. Supposedly, before I arrived in the US, he was talking to my mother and said something along the lines of 'I wish I didn't have a girlfriend so I could date your daughter, just because you're so wonderful.' Now, I paraphrase what my mother said, and my mother herself tried to say that he had said it in a way that was indeed charming and flattering to us both but... either he or she failed. MASSIVELY. I mean, on what planet does a daughter truly want to be asked out on a date because, if her mother is so cool, then she must be an interesting option? I don't know about you but I've taken to being slightly offhanded around SG. Unfortunately, he is truly the only attractive guy at work who isn't engaged or married or living with his girlfriend. I swear, the US dating culture means that I am a single girl living in a world of M-A-R-R-I-E-D-S or N-E-A-R-L-Y M-A-R-R-I-E-D-S. Eew. I can take a few, but millions?
Girlies, I might be fleeing back sooner than we thought ;-)
Muah.