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"the other man" part deux

gawker

Older than dirt

Well, today was a total waste of time. My Atf's other regular customer & I had agreed to meet at a sports bar for lunch at 1:00. He had said he had a noontime appointment and might be late. I arrived at 1:00 and sat at the bar and waited. At 1:30 I got a text asking where I was. He was at a different bar ( with the same name) in the next town over. I got there at about 2:00 and he was sitting in his car and asked me to get in, which I did. I said, well, she's still addicted; we've both made our best effort to help; which all too often has just enabled her drug use. What should we do? He replied, "It's all the BF's fault. She gets clean and he gets her hooked again."
Then he said that he had a 2:30 appointment and had to leave, but wanted to show me some pictures. He had a scrapbook filled with photographic prints of every dancer from our club that he's been "active" with, including my ATF. Most were nude, but some were taken while involved in activities like at a shooting range, flying in a small airplane, etc. Frankly none were at all unique and none were anything other than what you can see on stage.
As he left he suggested that we send the BF $1000 in hopes that he overdoses.
My impression? I felt as if the photos were his trophies. He had no indication that he cared about the women as people. He is just weird. One cannot assess another's motives in 15 minutes and he may very well think I'm weird or worse.
My ATF called me this morning and asked what was going on with him and me and I told her we were meeting for lunch. She laughed, asked me to bring her cigarettes and predicted a total waste of time.