A 'friend' of ours (I use the term very loosely, you'll see why in a bit) is going through a mid-life crisis. I swear, this guy's losing his freakin' mind!
'F' is a detective. He's been a detective for 6 years. As a detective, you would think that he would have learned from his subject's mistakes - first of all, to not be decepetive, but secondly to cover your tracks and to not get caught.
F and I have never really done well together. We kept eah other at arm's length and were cordial to each other, but I've always considered him a self-centered, egotistical misogynistic asshole, and he's always thought me a bitch. Recently, he hasn't done very well with anyone. He found out that he was going to have to deploy for the first time in 6 years, and that his investigations job wasn't going to be waitng for him when he got back (he's been in that job for 6 years, normally people get rotated out every 2 years, so he was waaay overdue to get moved on)..and he set about buring as many bridges as he could. He bad mouthed people, he slammed his colleagues, his superior officers and NCO's, and he was very vocal and very public in doing so. He also took the opportunity to come on to me. This man, who claims to love my husband "like a brother" told me that if I ever got "lonely" or in need of a little "affection: that I should call him. That I'd be safer with him than with "some loser from the street", that he'd be "happy to take care of" me whilst my husband was gone.
F's current marriage (his third) hasn't been going well for some time now. His wife just had a little girl, their second child together, in July. F made it well known that the conception of the newest baby was the only time he had had sex with his wife in the last year. He told her before he went off to a school this past summer that he wasn't happy, and that he thought they should use the time apart to consider their feelings for each other and re-evaluate the relationship.
So, F goes off to school, and what does he do? He embarks on an affair. I shouldn't really call it an affair, I should really call it a booty-call. With a girl who's a good 10 years his junior (and is a junior rank to him to boot). He calls her on his cell phone constantly (mistake number one, because his wife gets the bill) and then does something that causes myself and everyone who knows him to think that he's lost his mind.
He takes photographs of her. Naked photos. Pornographic photos. Photos of him having sex with her, in various places, positions and at various times. He then transferrers the photos to a jump drive, and when he comes back from this school and is getting ready to deploy, he asks a colleague (who's also a detective, and who recently got bad-mouthed by F) to "keep an eye" on it. Bad move. Of course, F's colleague wanted to see what was on the drive.....and was stunned to find out what F had been up to at school. By this time, F has left for a 6 month deployment, so is unavailable to give an explanation for his insane behaviour.
In the meantime, F's wife has been checking out their cell phone bill. She finds some numbers she doesn't recognize on there - a lot of calls to the same number, late at night, and for extended periods of time - and calls them to find out what the heck is going on. Imagine her surprise when the girl who own the cell phone number spills the beans about F's involvement with her. F gets a phone call from a very irate soon-to-be-ex-wife, telling him that he screwed with the wrong person and that if she had her way he'd be lucky if she left him with the clothes he stood up in, much less his house and his car....
...F in turn, calls around to everyone he can think of, accusing them of spilling the beans to his wife. No matter that he was stupid and he got caught, it's still someone else's fault.
I'm expecting to get a call from him this week. I'm also going to have to sit my husband down sometime soon and tell him about his friend who had all this respect and love for him, but who volunteered to get into my pants.
I swear, F is losing his mind......
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