The
Manhattan Martini
As
always insight comes to me in the latest hour of the evening.
On this evening I came to the conclusion that men will
always cheat. Now I realize that this is a pretty bold
statement but under the circumstances and the cocktail,
it was the reality that I had avoided up to this point
in my life but had to accept. I think the acceptance of
this fact was do to the different recipe for the tried
and true Manhattan.
The Manhattan has
been a martini that has been around for ever. It is one
of the great classics. It is a martini that you drink
and feel that you should be sitting with the rat pack
and discussing how a martini is pure magic, it may not
make your problems disappear but it will certainly reduce
there size. The Manhattan will definably reduce the pain
a woman feels when she realizes that her man is a cheater.
A combination of Canadian Club rye, sweet vermouth with
a dash of bitters and a splash of Jim Beam, makes this
a martini that is hard core and just a bit bitter.
I think it was the slight bitterness of this martini that
made the realization that men will always cheat hit home.
This cheating issue came about by my very good male friend.
Our social circle had erupted over the past few days because
one of our solid couples had split. The wife had received
a phone call from another woman who told her that she
was having an affair with her husband. The hurt and betrayal
that followed was devastating. My buddy and I were sipping
our Manhattans and discussing the issue when he made the
comment that it really wasn’t that big of a deal,
they just needed to get over it because everyone cheats!
I was speechless, as shocking as it is to believe! I had
no retort to that statement. I could not believe it, according
to him everyone cheats. Was I the only one who had never
cheated? He was shocked to discover that even I had morals.
The only positive
thing about this conversation was The Manhattan it was
so good we had to order another. We discussed all the
people we knew that had cheated; as we went through all
our friends I realized that he was right,
“Almost
everyone we knew had cheated at some point.”
The
scenarios were different: like the men who had an affair
with his wife’s friend, or the man who swore he
had met his new love but he was sleeping with multiple
woman for the first 6 weeks of meeting his new love, or
the wife who found about her husbands not girlfriend but
boyfriend. Even though the scenarios were different the
end result was the same, was anyone faithful any more?
Just
recently I had met a very nice married man who flirted
shamelessly with me, he even made the comment that "he
was a happily married man but would I like to get together
for a drink?" Is that not a complete contradiction?
As I went through all my past relationships I could only
come up with one, that I was pretty sure had never cheated.
I was shocked, had I been in denial of this my whole life?
