Awfully Personal Question for September 4, 2004

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You’ve just reached the end of a week-long business project in a country far from home and you’re rushing to catch the last Friday flight home to your Significant Other, but due to a weather delay, the flight’s cancelled. Suddenly you spot X, a very attractive person from your project team who you just met on the Monday, but who you find out was also rushing home to their SO and is in the same situation as you. You’re both re-booked on Saturday morning flights and have told your respective SOs your new arrival time. X says to you:

“You know, I’ve always wanted to find out if what they say about this city is true. You know, about the clubs that have live sex shows and the swingers’ bars and the unadvertised haunts where hash and ecstasy and viagra are right on the menu. Since we’re stuck together, and we both have SOs, what do you say we pretend to be a married tourist couple and explore the city safely together. We agree in advance: No hanky-panky, we’re ‘just looking’, and we look out for each other. I’m sure the taxi drivers would know where to take us. You game?”

Question: Are you game? And do you order any of those ‘special items’ on the menu? And what do you tell your SO when you get back?

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