Let us know how it goes. It sounds like it will be right in your wheelhouse since you'll have the tour guide thing to occupy your time instead of staring at each other over plates of spaghetti. If nothing else, you may have made a very interesting friend.  I have met some of my best, longest-lasting friends online.

This whole conversation about Russian women reminds me of the movie "2 Brothers and a Bride" aka "A Foreign Affair".  Man was that movie way more disturbing than I expected it to be. 

 

Annnnyway, good luck with your visit, KJP!!!!!  Shall we expect you to be absent from UO?

 

EDIT:  RnR - maybe we'll get another woman around here :-D

Sure would be nice!  And I'd appreciate the international perspective as well, instead of the "trapped in a bubble" mentaility of so many women I know (not on UO, obviously).

This whole conversation about Russian women reminds me of the movie "2 Brothers and a Bride" aka "A Foreign Affair". Man was that movie way more disturbing than I expected it to be.

 

OK now you're scaring me.

 

Annnnyway, good luck with your visit, KJP!!!!! Shall we expect you to be absent from UO?

 

Not until mid-June.

 

EDIT: RnR - maybe we'll get another woman around here :-D

 

We'll see, ya big teaser! In the meantime, why don't you get that Indian newcomer to Cleveland more involved (the one who's the new pediatrics resident at Rainbow Babies)? She sounds like she's a good candidate for UO.

I've had quite a few PMs with the newcomer, once she's settled we're going to have lunch.  DocBroc maybe you can meet us too, would be nice to meet you in person.

Sure, just let me know :)

I am better at writing than I am at speaking, especially to someone I've never met. Yet in my various jobs I have confronted mayors, CEOs of Fortune 500 companies, congresspersons, senators, reporters, appeared on numerous live television and radio programs and spoken in front of groups as large as 500. Don't get me wrong -- I do get some nerves tingling when speaking in these venues sometimes. But I have never frozen up or even walked away from them as I have done when an interesting and pretty woman has approached me.

 

As for her, she is 31 years old and has a three-year-old son. But she is leaving him in Russia so his grandmother can watch after him while she is here. Despite being married to an American man and living here for several years, she never got to see much of America (she's seen a suburb of San Jose and been to Las Vegas). So I promised her that I would show her around the Great Lakes region since I can't afford much more than that. Anything else that happens as a result will be the result of hope, not expectation.

 

I've lived with foreign exchange students before, and love showing visitors around. She is a world traveler (Europe, South Africa etc), having competed in gymnastics when she was a teenager. So I appreciate her global view.

 

Thats how I feel.  I dont like to speak in public and I just want to go out and dance and not be bothered.  I know the irony is I'm in a social enviornment.

 

I've seen people I'm attracted to, but can never seem to come up with the right thing to say at that moment to kick off a convo.  I've never approached a guy. I'm also bad a picking up "flirting" signals.  My assistant is like, "he just hit you over the head with an "I'm interested" sign and you dont say a word".

 

It's hard for me to tell if a person is "flirting" or just making convo.

I am better at writing than I am at speaking, especially to someone I've never met. Yet in my various jobs I have confronted mayors, CEOs of Fortune 500 companies, congresspersons, senators, reporters, appeared on numerous live television and radio programs and spoken in front of groups as large as 500. Don't get me wrong -- I do get some nerves tingling when speaking in these venues sometimes. But I have never frozen up or even walked away from them as I have done when an interesting and pretty woman has approached me.

 

As for her, she is 31 years old and has a three-year-old son. But she is leaving him in Russia so his grandmother can watch after him while she is here. Despite being married to an American man and living here for several years, she never got to see much of America (she's seen a suburb of San Jose and been to Las Vegas). So I promised her that I would show her around the Great Lakes region since I can't afford much more than that. Anything else that happens as a result will be the result of hope, not expectation.

 

I've lived with foreign exchange students before, and love showing visitors around. She is a world traveler (Europe, South Africa etc), having competed in gymnastics when she was a teenager. So I appreciate her global view.

 

Good luck buddy.  I'll keep my fingers crossed and have a chat with Cupid.  ;)

Thanks.

 

I've also been hit over the head with expressions of interest and not responded. Examples that I can immediately remember:

 

"You are handsome. My name is Lisa. Call me at...." Note left under my car's windshield wiper.

 

"Hey, where's the party?" said two women who pulled up in a car as I left the beverage store with friends as we carried cartons of beer.

 

"Make sure you get his phone number too" said one woman to a cashier in my check-out line at a store.

 

"How about next weekend?" said the friend of a woman I had been dancing with when I asked if I'd ever see her again.

 

"Ken! It's so good to see you again!" yelled a woman from school who ran up to hug me when she saw me at a shopping mall.

 

"That's how I like a man to masturbate me" said a woman I'd just met at a party when I promised to be on my best behavior then held up the two-finger pledge of 'scout's honor'.

 

"Rape me!" said a drunk woman in the company of her girlfriends outside my condo building.

 

There were many, much more subtle expressions and if I missed the overtures above, you can be darned sure I missed the subtle ones!

Thanks.

 

I've also been hit over the head with expressions of interest and not responded. Examples that I can immediately remember:

 

"You are handsome. My name is Lisa. Call me at...." Note left under my car's windshield wiper.

 

"Hey, where's the party?" said two women who pulled up in a car as I left the beverage store with friends as we carried cartons of beer.

 

"Make sure you get his phone number too" said one woman to a cashier in my check-out line at a store.

 

"How about next weekend?" said the friend of a woman I had been dancing with when I asked if I'd ever see her again.

 

"Ken! It's so good to see you again!" yelled a woman from school who ran up to hug me when she saw me at a shopping mall.

 

"That's how I like a man to masturbate me" said a woman I'd just met at a party when I promised to be on my best behavior then held up the two-finger pledge of 'scout's honor'."Rape me!" said a drunk woman in the company of her girlfriends outside my condo building.

 

There were many, much more subtle expressions and if I missed the overtures above, you can be darned sure I missed the subtle ones!

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This is the most disturbing thread on urbanohio EVER ... but not necessarily in a bad way :)

Thanks.

 

I've also been hit over the head with expressions of interest and not responded. Examples that I can immediately remember:

 

"You are handsome. My name is Lisa. Call me at...." Note left under my car's windshield wiper.

 

"Hey, where's the party?" said two women who pulled up in a car as I left the beverage store with friends as we carried cartons of beer.

 

"Make sure you get his phone number too" said one woman to a cashier in my check-out line at a store.

 

"How about next weekend?" said the friend of a woman I had been dancing with when I asked if I'd ever see her again.

 

"Ken! It's so good to see you again!" yelled a woman from school who ran up to hug me when she saw me at a shopping mall.

 

"That's how I like a man to masturbate me" said a woman I'd just met at a party when I promised to be on my best behavior then held up the two-finger pledge of 'scout's honor'.

 

"Rape me!" said a drunk woman in the company of her girlfriends outside my condo building.

 

There were many, much more subtle expressions and if I missed the overtures above, you can be darned sure I missed the subtle ones!

 

Yeah, those last two are a little scary...

 

Thats how I feel.  I dont like to speak in public and I just want to go out and dance and not be bothered.  I know the irony is I'm in a social enviornment.

 

I've seen people I'm attracted to, but can never seem to come up with the right thing to say at that moment to kick off a convo.  I've never approached a guy. I'm also bad a picking up "flirting" signals.  My assistant is like, "he just hit you over the head with an "I'm interested" sign and you dont say a word".

 

It's hard for me to tell if a person is "flirting" or just making convo.

 

Just imagine being visually impaired.  I wouldn't know if someone was fliring with me unless they sat on my lap.

Yeah, those last two are a little scary...

 

 

I don't have any regrets about the last one. If I'm sober and she's not, I don't care what she says or does to me -- I'm not going to respond.

 

The one before that though was at a party in Akron in the early 90s. She sure shocked the hell out of me when she said it and she seemed pretty sober at the time. She was also very pretty so I figured she was just playing around with me, playing headgames.

This is the most disturbing thread on urbanohio EVER ... but not necessarily in a bad way :)

 

I don't think so.  Apparently you've forgotten about the GREECE photo thread!  ROFLMAO!!!

 

Just imagine being visually impaired.  I wouldn't know if someone was fliring with me unless they sat on my lap.

Well "make it rain" man!

Yeah, those last two are a little scary...

 

 

I don't have any regrets about the last one. If I'm sober and she's not, I don't care what she says or does to me -- I'm not going to respond.

 

The one before that though was at a party in Akron in the early 90s. She sure shocked the hell out of me when she said it and she seemed pretty sober at the time. She was also very pretty so I figured she was just playing around with me, playing headgames.

 

Yeah.  Drunk "come ons" are the worst.  It's not really a compliment as the person giving the compliment does not know (remember) what they have said.

Just imagine being visually impaired. I wouldn't know if someone was fliring with me unless they sat on my lap.

 

That happened to me at a party. Cute, too, and just a little drunk.

 

Then, his wife walked in.

Just imagine being visually impaired.  I wouldn't know if someone was fliring with me unless they sat on my lap.

 

That happened to me at a party. Cute, too, and just a little drunk.

 

Then, his wife walked in.

 

LMAO!

Well, so much for the visit of the lady "From Russia With Love"...

 

Just another pothole in the pathway.

ok I am sure there is more to the story than 'so much for the visit of the lady "from Russia with Love" '

and we are owed a story...

Get used to disappointment.

What - she's not coming after all? Or she came and it was a complete disappointment?  spill.

Just think of it this way, in 20 years time, she'd be a 'sturdy' woman wearing a babushka, with a nose covered in bursted capillaries due to years of vodka abuse.

Well, so much for the visit of the lady "From Russia With Love"...

 

Just another pothole in the pathway.

 

Oh no!  I'm sorry :(

Sorry to hear that KJP...

 

I cut off contact with her because she's been living with her boyfriend here in America the entire time we've been chatting and planning.

 

Just think of it this way, in 20 years time, she'd be a 'sturdy' woman wearing a babushka, with a nose covered in bursted capillaries due to years of vodka abuse.

 

Or she could look like the 50-year-old Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Timoshenko...

 

Just think of it this way, in 20 years time, she'd be a 'sturdy' woman wearing a babushka, with a nose covered in bursted capillaries due to years of vodka abuse.

 

I cut off contact with her because she's been living with her boyfriend here in America the entire time we've been chatting and planning.

 

 

Wow.  Bi-otch.

 

Or she could look like the 50-year-old Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Timoshenko...

 

 

Meh. While I find the Princess Leia thing she's got going on strangely erotic, she's got crow's feet. And probably wrinkly elbows. And knobby knuckles due to early onset arthritis.

Mmm, lovely. And she *just* told you this little fact? Nice.

I cut off contact with her because she's been living with her boyfriend here in America the entire time we've been chatting and planning.

 

 

Wow. Bi-otch.

 

You said it docbroc...

Mmm, lovely. And she *just* told you this little fact? Nice.

 

No actually her boyfriend did.

 

But hey that's life.

Meh. While I find the Princess Leia thing she's got going on strangely erotic, she's got crow's feet. And probably wrinkly elbows. And knobby knuckles due to early onset arthritis.

 

Wow, you're really searchin' -- wait until you turn 50. That's only the visible maladies you'll experience.

Mmm, lovely. And she *just* told you this little fact? Nice.

 

No actually her boyfriend did.

 

But hey that's life.

 

Was it like a "You're messin' with my girl, so I'm gonna kill you!" kind of thing?  Do we need to get you a bodyguard?

Meh. While I find the Princess Leia thing she's got going on strangely erotic, she's got crow's feet. And probably wrinkly elbows. And knobby knuckles due to early onset arthritis.

 

Wow, you're really searchin' -- wait until you turn 50. That's only the visible maladies you'll experience.

 

Hey, I'm just trying to make you feel better!

 

Listen, the news stinks, but at least you know now before you made any real investment in this wacko.

 

No actually her boyfriend did.

 

Wow, that's even worse.  At least he told you now, before things got really messy.

 

Was it like a "You're messin' with my girl, so I'm gonna kill you!" kind of thing? Do we need to get you a bodyguard?

 

No dear. I'm fine. I created and owned the clevelandmob.com website years ago, wrote exposes on the Cleveland mob (still available on the web), and even had a mob-hired private detective go through my garbage to look up dirt on me. So a jealous boyfriend 3,000 miles away in San Diego doesn't scare me at all.

Her current or soon to be X boyfriend told you?

 

This is some wysteria lane-esq BS man!

There must be a few 30 or 40-something single women in Lakewood.  Go places where you would have to engage them in conversation, have your family introduce you to their friends, etc.  You have a sister, right?  Get her on the job.  Sisters are good at that sort of thing.  Just don't use the bus for your first date!

 

They say the Russian mob is much more brutal than the Mafia, be careful.

"There must be a few 30 or 40-something single women in Lakewood..."

 

Key words.

My sister spends all her time watching movies alone at home. She has a worse social life than I do.

 

And for whatever reason American women don't give me the time of day. But Eastern European women respond to me. So who I am to deny them?

 

I did start researching Russian gangsters in Cleveland starting in 2001, but then Sept. 11th happened that distracted me for a while and then there was a break in one of the lingering mob stories I had been working on for several years (involving some people who since got nabbed in the Cuyahoga County corruption scandal). But I met a lot of Russian immigrants on the east side, especially in my old stomping ground of Mayfield Heights. I think that's where I discovered I liked Russian and Ukrainian women and that they liked me. And while Mayfield Heights went from being the home of one mob to another, you're right Dan that those Ruskie gangsters are more brutal than the mobsters they replaced.

The best way to get the attention of an attractive woman is to have her see you with another one, or notice others being interested in you.  It sounds cynical, but it's true.

 

I had way more opportunities when I was with Holly (and not inclined to take advantage of them) than before, and there still seems to be some carryover from that that isn't just the "works in a bar thing"  (the normal rules don't apply to cops, firemen, musicians, or us).  I also see it quite a bit at work with others.

Life is like a Seinfeld episode!  George wore a wedding ring to attract women!

 

Funny, I always attracted crazy girls. Like my ex-girlfriend in college who was on Prozac, didn't tell me she was on Prozac and then decided to wean herself from Prozac. I had no idea what was going on.......

 

My wife is crazy but in a lovable kooky way. She's Darhma and I am Greg.

 

KJP, I would offer up my sister but she is a petite fiesty Italian so i doubt she meets your Russian women qualifications...

I dated a woman who at times was just wonderful, and at others was just so strange.  One day at her apartment, I saw her prescription for lithium.  No, I didn't check her medicine cabinet, it was sitting out on the counter!

My neighbor's son married a Russian woman.  She wasn't mail order like in a magazine, but he went to Moscow to meet her.  They have been married about 10 years.  She is just a wonderful person.  She went from speaking very little English, to hardly an accent.  They have 4 kids and she just seems to be so happy to be here.

I dated a woman who at times was just wonderful, and at others was just so strange. One day at her apartment, I saw her prescription for lithium. No, I didn't check her medicine cabinet, it was sitting out on the counter!

 

I bet you the lightbulb that went off over your head when you saw that could have lit up Terminal Tower..

KJP, I would offer up my sister but she is a petite fiesty Italian so i doubt she meets your Russian women qualifications...

 

Are you kidding? I love Italian women! If she'd like a mostly Irish guy, let her know I'm out here. I say that because a lot of Irish men hook up with Italian women in Cleveland and other cities.

KJP, I would offer up my sister but she is a petite fiesty Italian so i doubt she meets your Russian women qualifications...

 

I say that because a lot of Irish men hook up with Italian women in Cleveland and other cities.

 

Case in point, me, hahaha.

See!

Go Latin!  LMAO!

Life is like a Seinfeld episode!  George wore a wedding ring to attract women!

 

 

Or the scene in "Legally Blonde" when Reese Witherspoon smacks the guy for "blowing her off", causing the woman he's asking out to change her mind. :)