the davis reduction

of the select group of guys who i consider true friends, one seems to do exceptionally well with the opposite sex -- with one caveat. he's got terrible taste in women. he thinks asian girls are overrated -- fine, i agree -- but he also digs the trashy look as well. the around-the-block but i clean up well thing. if i didn't know him and saw a photo album of his exes, i'd have pegged him for italian with an affinity for gold necklaces and earrings.

so to no suprise, the conversation lead to the discussion of handling women. the techniques, so to speak. his #1 ploy: the davis reduction. now i'd never heard mention of this particular tactic, so i asked him to explain. apparently, reduction is the term doctors use for mending broken bones. davis is his physician colleague who has transplanted this method to the male-female relationship.

apparently, davis, like so many others, has a difficult girlfriend, one whose psychosis seems to arise at regular intervals. and so when one of her moods shows, it's time to cut off the face time. ignore her, then reestablish the connection a few days later (say five) as if nothing out of the ordinary has taken place.

subtle, yes. without words you have communicated to the female who has control over the relationship. yet you were not mean, and in fact she has nothing to even accuse you of, since nothing out of the ordinary has even transpired. at least she thinks that's what you think.

i was of two minds while listening to my friend elaborate on the practice. one, i've always done this, though i never came up with a clever name for it. and two, it's retarded that this is how relationships have to work. because my friend was right. and so despite my approaching true adulthood (30) and him on the fast track to a career in orthodpedics, this is the idiocy that all people deal with. all for a little love; and a little more sex.