Eve's original sin

1 oz Smirnoff® Green Apple Twist vodka
1 oz 99 Apples® apple schnapps
1 oz DeKuyper® Sour Apple Pucker schnapps
3 oz 7-Up® soda
1 oz lemon juice

Mix lemon juice, apple vodka, Sour Apple Pucker, and 99 Apples with ice in a cocktail shaker. Strain into glass. Fill with 7-up and garnish with Granny Smith apple slice 

Yesterday after work I met up with some old friends for a drink. One of my friends just got engaged and we were planning her bachelorette party; I was in charge of the alcohol (of course) and Sheila was doing the guest list. Bachelorette parties are easy, it’s a girls only affair… we drink, share sex stories and exchange gifts… usually lingerie and scented candles, although I am yet to meet someone who uses those candles in the bedroom. If you are one or know someone, halla at ur gal, am interested to know exactly what purpose they serve.

Eve, our bride to be, is getting married in 2 weeks. It is 1 of those rushed weddings. She got engaged about one and a half months back and is already walking down the aisle. We can all guess the reason why…. Yap, she doesn’t want to get married with the baby bump showing.

When she called me last week to ask if I could plan her bachelorette party and to tell me the date had been moved up from end of may, I was actually shocked and couldn’t resist asking her the question that every1 has been resisting since she announced the engagement.” Are you sure you are not rushing blindly into this?”

I expected her to give me the love speech, the “I love him so much and even if I wasn’t pregnant I would still marry him” speech. Instead she got real with me, she told me that she was far from ready to be someone’s wife but even less prepared to be a single mother; she had a successful caring man who was ready to be her husband and a father and it would be stupid of her to pass up that chance”

I realized that she was far from blindly rushing in; her only mistake was needing a man. Like so many of us pussy carriers, eve was a working class gamine. At 26 she had a well paying job, a good apartment and could easily support a child on her own but she was crippled by her need for a man. We all are.

Marriage for convenience versus marriage for love…

Do people get married for love anymore? Is there even such a thing as love in the marital realm? It’s like we love till we are married then after the rings are on all our love is transferred to the kids and we become co-providers; our main tasks being: feed the kids, satisfy me sexually, be by my side during events and occasionally buy me flowers.

It’s all need and no want.

According to me, Eve’s original sin (Adam’s eve, not my friend) was need. If only she hadn’t needed that rib, the metaphorical yoke that banished her to eternal reliance on man. We lost all sense of self reliance for a piece of cartilage. Was there no more mud or dust or whatever it is that Adam was honed from?Or was it god's own way,being a man himself, of ensuring that we stick to our arbitrated roles: to serve, to love and to need.