Beatchick

Me, too, JoeG, but apparently being built like the BACK of one...????

P_M

This is not exactly a gigolo story, but I did get a marriage proposal a few months ago in Morocco where polygamy is practiced. This came from a man I barely knew, in fact I don't think we had even talked yet. He overheard that I work at a University and assumed I was a teacher. (I'm not) He approached me and said he was looking for another wife in addition to the 3 he already has. He wanted his new wife to be a teacher so she can home school his many children with the other wives. When I told him I am not a teacher he soon lost interest. This gave me the creeps at the time, but later I thought it was quite funny.

grosenb

Thanks everyone for a good chuckle while at work. I love to laugh outloud.

Madison, Sorry for your pain but now you have a wonderful story to tell as well as the memory. It's a positive experience.

Marilyn

Well, Madison, if nothing else, your experience has provided fuel for Degas to write one of his most amusing bits.

I know several stories along the lines of yours, too long to tell here. All have mysterious or inconclusive endings. Life sometimes does not wrap up the plot neatly, and there's not much to be done about it.

kismetchimera

Madison,
Just take it as a travelling experience and something to talk about with your friends.
It is part of growing up..You must kiss a lots of frogs, before you find your prince charming..

SeaUrchin

I agree, take it as just part of a fun adventerous trip.

My friend, Seashell, met a man in Italy one time who ended up vowing endless love, etc., but in the meantime she had been wined and dined and had a wonderful time, it is the way she will always remember the town she was in, but she keeps it positive in her memories, why not, she understands where he was coming from.

There is no way to be sure what the men you meet are really after in the long run, but beat them at the own game! Play the game back on them. You are wiser now so it will be easier to figure out what they are about.

Think of him as being the victim, not you!

jette

Consider yourself lucky, Madison, or maybe smarter than some others. I know someone quite well that got, Ahem, "lei'd" in Hawaii and came home with an extra souvenir.

Nikki

"You must kiss lots of frogs, before you find your prince charming."

It's true, after I kissed the second or third frog I found my prince much more charming.

What a difference a proper noun makes.

tinarose

I'm confused by the term, I thought gigolo was a young man paid by a woman to escort her and squire her around town. A con artist is a different bird isn't he?

SeaUrchin

I think I have the term gigolo mixed up too.

I don't look wealthy enough to have some man/boy want me to "keep" them. Heck, on my income they would probably be worse off than before!

Rich

gigolo? ? wasn't that the movie with Benifer? ? ? Got terrible reviews . . don't know why anyone want want to meet one!!

Rich

minette20

Hey! About this gigolo thing. I am 69 and fairly slim and attractive with a pension and Soc. Security, Going to Wales this summer. Any chance I can find a Welshman who is in the "gigolo business" or it this limited to Latin men? I'd be willing to pay for a pint or two at the local pub!

bonniebroad

Wasn't that "Sweet BIRD of Youth" with Paul and Geraldine??? One of my all-time favorites....

Now, I thought a gigolo was a young man who is squiring an elderly, wealthy woman............. and she foots all the bills for EVERYTHING! (Isn't there a lot of that in Miami Beach?;-) )

This situation just sounds like "somebody hitting on somebody" to me........... And if you meet a guy on the street in front of your hotel, well, it ain't quite the same as being introduced at church, ya know???????????? (Not that I'm being critical......... to each his own!)

Surlok

I agree. This man could be called a "bon vivant", or a "Casanova", or even more properly, a "Don Juan", since he's an Argentinian, and native spanish speaker, but not a gigolo.

So, Madison, re-think the issue. Maybe he was after you for the only sake of enjoyment, or enjoying the conquest by itself, but not looking for hidden bonuses.

kismetchimera

Bonniebroad,

Paul Newman was Absolutely GORGEOUS, so sexy in that movie...I saw it when I was a young thing,must tell you that my Hormones went Haywire!!

bonniebroad

Kismetchemera, did you read my story about Paul Newman on the "Famous Person" thread recently? In case you didn't, last summer, a lady tourist in his hometown in Connecticut was standing in line for a cone at the local ice cream parlor. When she turned around to glance out the window, the HE stood, in line behind her! He smiled and said hello, as she almost passed out. Trying to be very cool, she smiled back, turned back around to the counter, took her ice cream cone from the clerk, put it INTO her big tote, and walked out to her car!;-) Honestly, I can see myself doing that........... apparently, he still has IT!!!!!!!!

in_wyoming

How about asking this guy about anything that bothers you? Nothing ventured, nothing gained. Be "up front" as you say.

I, personally, must be too old to have much happen and mostly a wallflower kind of lady. The last time it happened to me, the fellow was missing too many teeth.

kismetchimera

I can picture that poor lady!! He still looks great for his age..But when he was young..He was a true Roman, Greek God..

SuzieC

"and she pays for everything"...

uhoh... my ex husband was a gigolo!

capo

"gig?o?lo"
Etymology: French
1: a man supported by a woman usually in return for his attentions

Making this "gigolo" about as commonplace as the white rhino.

A license to love, into your heart he will burrow
Melts all your memories and change into euro
His eyes are like those of Edward R. Murrow

No need to ask
He's a Louvre Operator
Louvre Operator, Louvre Operator
Louvre...Operator