Monica and the Magic Phone

If you watch How I Met Your Mother then you might know an episode in which Barney goes to the Super Bowl and manages to get on national television holding a sign with his phone number on it.  The number belongs to a cell phone and shortly after the Super Bowl the phone begins to ring... and ring.


What starts off as the most amazing idea to meet women ever turns into a curse as Barney is trapped believing that each successive caller may be hotter and more desirable than the last.  He can never be happy with the woman that he is with because the next one might be better and there is an unlimited number of women calling.  So rather than enjoying any of them he spends all of this time trying to be sure that he selects the best one.


It would seem that for Monica a similar situation is playing out. Being an active player who is actually meeting guys (and girls) makes her a very hot commodity plus we are far younger than the average swinging couple, do a lot more and with cleavage like that, well, there is just bound to be some interest.  There is so much interest, in fact, that she is completely overwhelmed by the constant deluge of guys looking to get with her.  The guys come in all shapes and sizes, from multiple countries, different states, all kinds of ages, you name it.


Don't get me wrong, this process is very interesting and we have been meeting a lot of very cool people.  But the culling and vetting process is becoming a little cumbersome as we have so many potentially good people to sift through.  It is certainly hot finding out that there is a practically limitless number of guys (and many girls as well) who are very, very interested in boning my wife and I am, apparently, very envied.  But it creates a very odd situation.


Effectively, with minimal effort, Monica could be meeting a new guy every single night.  Potentially more than one a night - as fast as I would be able to screen them.  This causes no end of potential problems.  Swinging and our lifestyle can very easily become a completely consuming activity using up every possible waking hour.  Between time spent finding new people, gaining their interest, putting in the time to determine if they are worth pursuing, doing an initial screening, then the more meaningful meeting and then finally getting together - well easily we could be doing nothing else.


For me, as you would imagine, finding women or even couples looking to play is extremely hard.  I am finding some but I sure do not have the queue that Monica does.  She is really having fun with this, though.  Can't deny that.


So now the challenge for Monica is going to be figuring out how to cut back and leverage the harem of men that she has already amassed rather than spending all of her time trying to find new people with whom she will never have time to meet up.  - Steve