Wednesday, October 24, 2007

Disillusioned

I grew up reading Mills and Boons. I don’t know why I consumed those pamphlets wit such Gusto. I read my first M&B in class 5. An aunt left a Copy lying bout carelessly and I found. And boy did I find. I was hooked, love at first read. So you can imagine what a screwed up teenager/adolescence I was. I was a mini failure at secondary school I really could not be bothered with inter science nay what happened to M&B’. I was a major supplier and knew all the oda suppliers we had a network that im sure Al Capone can’t top. (The evil books were illegal)
I quit reading the ‘evil books’ in 100 level but my mind was all ready messed up. im still paying the price. I had no boyfriend in sec school coz while my reasonable mates were reading the babysitters club I was reading baby boom. I.e. I wanted a rich boy so I shunned all me toasters and opted for a non existent prince charming.
I was a day dreamer who believed in the perfect life no worries evri thin is meant to be rosy etc
University was the same I was looking for that tall dark/or lite handsome rich dude. I had fantasized that he would probably be my boss. I would go for a holiday Job and he would fall hopelessly in love with me. INDEED. Did I even/ever have a holiday job?
I got disillusioned when by final year almost all my friends got hooked and me? Well I wont be writing this if all was well.
Now I am a working class single woman of 27 almost 28(only positive thing in a way). Yes the rich guys eventually came but they all married. Are they tall dark and handsome? No. they are short bleached men having a mid live crisis and most importantly someone’s husband. And now that I am working and “independent” I can’t settle for someone earning less than me.
In conclusion do I have a case against Mills and Boons coz I intend to sue? Any lawyers out there?

24 comments:

Standing Truth Betold said...

lmao unfortunbately u no fit sue.
but i must say i went through that too as a child. I was close with my siseters and being the flirtatious, attractive highesteemed felames that they are, they (Dola, Fierce, Aqua) instilled this belief in me that i was (am?) better than boys my age, and men who arent intelligent/abtitious/"classy".
COnsequently, i started dating older, men with careers, at a young age. I stayed far from men my age and most of them were intimidated by me, some thought i was silly (they'd laugh at my silliness. they thought it was silly that i thought myself better than them), others simply respected me.
Either way, i say...
if you can sue Boons and the likes, maybe i should sue my sisters.lol
oh and about short bleached(eww) men, you're not over reacting in their aspect. You sound to me like you deserve better.
anyway, as you can see i like to ramble. this is almost as long as a damn post.
take care lol

Abimars said...

Call me a romantic but I still believe in happy ever afters, there are so many stories out there, I just witnessed one recently so no dont sue just believe, it'll happen.

Afrobabe said...

I am with you on this...lets all go sueing love...they are the cause of my being single as well...my first sexual experience was horrible because of them,when I didnt see the stars I started shouting at the guy and hated him...

Happy ever after????

Is that before you find out he has a wife and kids outside the country?

Or till you find out he tried to shagg your best friend..

Or when he tells you (after a million shaggs) that he doesn't think the relationship can work...

Infact don't make me hate them oh cos I just saw a cute one...Oh me gosh I need to catch his eyes...byyyyyyyyyyyyyyeeee.

Anonymous said...

I was and still am a Danielle Steel novel reader. All her novels always have an happy ending, despite some of them being teary at d beginning.

anonymous gal(retired blogger) said...

@ 4givin truth lets sue cheap popularity plus we get our 5 min of fame.
@ abimars good 4 u. i love optimistic pple.
@ afrobabe just finished talkin to a lwayer. guess wat he said we have a case. babe how far with the cut guy now? any news there.
@ weinna i hate daniele. cant think of her havin any happy ever afta.

flawsandall said...

when I saw your name "anonymous"...I was like anonymous finally opened their own blog...it was a about time damn it...but I dont think your the anonymous that runs around like headless chickens on blopspot..lol

awww...baby love exist, maybe not as perfect as mills and boons potrayed it, but I guess something close will come your way very soon...amen

Jayn Sean said...

Yeah used to folow M & B's too.

Will come back to finish reading.

Thanx for stopping by my page. How fa now?

Unknown said...

Anonymous -

LOL!! Temptation, Mills and Boons , Harlequin, Regency - they all messed up our heads... :D

diary of a G said...

I was here

anonymous gal(retired blogger) said...

@ZEPHNI ABEG O IM an anonymous person wiot a face.
@jaybabe tankx 4 stoppin by
@pamela u hv no idea how they messed pple up
@diary of a g huh?

N.I.M.M.O said...

I smiled all through the post. It was funny and it didnt blame men for all the troubles. Sue them jare. (I'm sure the publishers of M&B are women).

Maybe we should just crown you Queen of the Anonymice (plural of mouse is mice abi?)

Thanx for stopping by at mine.

Nimmo

darkelcee said...

M & B are crazy, wish i had a previous tutorials on the content b4 i started reading them.

it got me messed up big time.

Do you know i still act on them?(quit reading them like 5 years ago) i mean when i see a guy i start getting ideas ...will he see his cindarella in moi?

...Will he propose on our first date?

...Will he kiss me senseless?

.... will he take me for a vacation in Hawai or go mountain climbing on everest? or snow/water ski?

none of these dis happen men i am stuck in lAGOS with reality of life staring at me!

So M & B is damn! infact double D!

Lol

lulu said...

hahaha, i did the same consumed mills and boon in class 5 then got bored,, i could rewrite the stories word for word... and starting writing some me self and not even knowing how people made love, i just duplicated what i read... thanks for the tip, have done some on ma new blog and thanks for passing by...

Ella Gregory said...

this was such a funny post
i love the blog

Afrobabe said...

which cute guy is that again...babes it must have ended before it started cos I am extremely single lol..how have u been?

Writefreak said...

Sweetie, you no fit sue o! I wish we could because M&B's messed so many teenagers up. I read them for a few years in secondary school too and would hide them under my pillow so my mum would not notice what i was reading, there was always a school book close by to cover up...
Thank God i got rescued quickly when i became born again, only read them for a few years and it took a few years to get them out of mysystem too so i can understand if you say they really affected, would beg any teenager i notice with them to give them up!
My dear, do't worry, your man will come, i believe you have the right mind set now and you're looking out for the right things, VERY soon!

Unknown Blogger said...

looool girl no case lai lai, infact don't go to court and burn your rep o.
Girl bring your guards down and you'll get a good man, for now forget about him earning less than you because tommorrow might be better for him.
As for m&b, thank goodness i was never hooked.

Allied said...

lol.. very funny post

anonymous gal(retired blogger) said...

@allied and coco tanks.
@ NIMMO men are hardly the cause of the problem
@ darklace the tutorial would have only wet your appetite jo. coz me i was warned.
@ lulu lucky u got bored early
@white freak lucky u got born again. me i was a rebbelious teen.
@ unknown blogger u cld at least lie that i have a case now.

myabubakar said...

wonder what james hadley chase did to guys

Unknown said...

buhahahaha chei so m&b scatter u like this ehn?

esp the short bleached part muhahahahha

Anonymous said...

No wonder! The source of my singledom has been revealed. I was beginning 2 tink dat person from my family dey do me. A se na my 5-6 a day habit dat is showing it's color.

Tank u o, anon-gal!

who says we can't sue? if person can sue mickey d's bcos coffee was 2 hot ;why can't we sue for d disillusionment of 1/2 the human species - abeg jo.

Oya, let the class action begin!
lol

Onome said...

hehehehehehehehehehehehe.....on a serious note mills and boons no try for us girls at all!!! well, God dey!

Flourishing Florida said...

My dear, me & u both. Abeg, wen u see d lawyer, contact me o. Ah ah, somebody has to pay for all these my heart breaks!!!!