appealing traits

The boything had surgery yesterday for his shoulder. He injured it two years ago at work and it took until now to get the company to fix it. He's fine but he called me as soon as he was out from under the anaesthesia and he made less sense then than he does when he's drunk. He sounded way out of it but was feeling good enough later in the day to go to a Magic card tournament even though he was still slightly cross-eyed at the time and high out of his mind on painkillers.

Of course, surgery meant being shirtless in front of hospital personnel, and being shirtless meant everybody could see the marks I left on him when he was here. And since he enjoys it I leave some pretty nasty wounds. Even through his clothes I almost broke skin and he still had the worst of the bruises and teeth marks yesterday morning. I'm not kidding when I say he looks like he was in some kind of life-or-death altercation with a wolverine.

So right up until they put him under for surgery he had to explain to everybody who saw him and his bruises that he wasn't in a fight or anything, that his girlfriend left them because she bites. The anaesthesiologist just looked at him funny and the doctor wanted to ask more questions but was laughing too hard to do it. I keep forgetting how weird that is to most people. To each his own and all. When people talk about it at all, I generally glean they put much higher value in shit I find completely mystifying when considering a partner--I used to not want to date anyone who smoked until I realized I didn't mind making out with smokers--and in the end it comes down to everybody having very different desires.

Even so, most people's list of prerequisites for a relationship is full of more common or vanilla mandatory traits. Has no STDs or children, no wife or prison record, certain physical attributes. I know women who won't date guys who don't have chest hair (I guess because they think it's masculine or some shit), which makes Max all the more a bizarre choice for me because he's completely upholstered and I really dislike body hair.

But that's all relatively normal. Most people don't consider 'CAN TAKE A BEATING' one of their top ten considerations in a partner.

Then again, most people don't make their partners wear collars.

So it's possible I'm just really, really weird.