New Season - New Questions. Ask the Wise Guy.

by: Scott Gentry
Central Oregon Community College
The Broadside

Mr. Right,

So you've managed to catch (entrap) yourself with a perfect booty call and love got in the way of lust. Aye, indeed it's a sticky situation for some, not most mind you; but for some it can be very hard on the heart.

Let me guess. She's amazing right? She has all the right moves, she has the right styles. Is she adorable? Absolutely captivating?

If, my guess is right, and I know it is. You have achieved a very noble title in her book. You're her Collector Card. Yes, I know it sounds kind of cheesy, but hear me out.

A collector card situation, is something that happens fairly often. Usually it involves a girl as the collector, because as a guy, we tend to be the ones always on the hunt. We are hunting, and they are waiting for us to assassinate them with our charm and wits. Then off to the bedroom we go.

However, you have fallen prey to an assassin of the other side. It's kind like a double agent. She obviously finds you attractive enough to let you enter the kingdom of her bedroom, but she isn't about to cut the chase off yet. There might be better men out there. So what she does is collect.

She runs around meeting people and when she finds an venturing hunter like yourself, she places the snares and lets them loose. She comes back to check in, get her jollies (because she may truly enjoy your company), and then goes and collects some more just to be safe. I think she might not be able to give you her heart or anything more, because she actually has nothing more to give. Her hearts already in a thousand different places at once, and since she is in fact collecting, you're not the only one. Sorry bro.

My advice is to just ignore her when she comes calling, if it is indeed bothering you that much to be a glorified booty call.

You, my man, will never probably have all of her and if you stop letting yourself be a centerpiece in her collection she might actually be thrown off guard and that's the best place any prey should be. Off guard and not in control. I think you may be able to take her down from there. Who knows? Sometimes they actually stop collecting and may settle down a little bit.

It's happened before, trust me.

- Wise Guy