Coming Clean

The best part about being friends and having friends is being able to have man-to-man moments or opportunities to come "clean" to each other. 

The national telephone survey of about 500 men ages 18 to 70 found that most would rather talk with their guy friends about current events, sports, their job, their kids — in other words, just about anything other than the state of their health. - Stat from AARP.

PS: Austin I know that stat doesn't apply to you because of age, but please entertain it anyways.

For the state of my health, I, like some of us, have had to come clean about things in my past (recent and distant) which could be, failures, faults, and even sins. The best part about it? As friends, there is no judgment, no embarrassment, and even no anxiety that should be attached when telling our boys the current state of our own being. 

A distant come clean moment:

Some of you have had the privilege to meet one of my best friends Matt Feldmann, otherwise known as Feldy. Back in college and still, really to this day, Feldy is/was a Frat boy (as was I for 2 months). This boy loves to party beyond the majority of us and is commonly known for sleeping at bars (to this day) when he has a few too many cocktails. At one of the parties at the off-campus frat house, Feldy (before he was sleeping in the middle of the party) fancied a young gal named Maci (7.9/10). They chatted and had a few things in common so Feldy asked if she would go to the KDR formal with him here in the next few months. Because it wasn't for a few months and the house was the main party spot, I would see Maci from time to time. One night about a week in advance of Feldys big formal night, the house had a party. A group of us were playing drinking games together, Maci and I were next to each other so we started just chatting about life, her major, and her plans after school. Again coming clean, it was purely just out of friendship knowing Feldy had a bit of a crush, they were "talking", and he was super excited for formal night.  As we were talking I had a feeling she had a bit of the not-so-good crazy in her but one teeny tiny problem (for feldy's sake) occurred during our conversation.... Her family/her had steelers season tickets. We ended up staying up until the wee hours of the night chatting about Steelers' football and our fandom. As the night came to a close I could feel the vibes vibing and I had a choice to make either hook up with this girl and ruin Feldy's formal/maybe future with this girl or send her home and be a gentleman. I made the choice of being a gentleman sent her off to her apartment and gave her my phone number in case her family couldn't go to a future game so that I could buy the tickets from them. Feldy and her, unfortunately, didn't work out in the long run but what's most important to me was that I was a gentleman and came clean to Feldy the night after formal about the interactions between her and me. 

A recent come clean moment:

Why I need to come clean to all of you today and I need all of you to come to the table with no judgment is that: I haven't paid an ounce of fucking attention to fantasy football or really football. I am so fucking dialed into the US bound to be World Cup winning run that I couldn't tell you anything about anything. I didn't even field a full team because truthfully I couldn't give a fuck. I could sit here and list out the teams and bullshit my way through it but that's not fair to you. If someone else wants to make their own power rankings I can edit this and add them? The one thing I do know is Doug's team/Josh Jacobs is a fucking wagon and I have 0 runningbacks. I will be able to do legit rankings next week IF and I mean IF the Netherlands somehow beat the greatest country known to ever have existed in the USA. If the USA wins and you want rankings, write them your fucking self (but seriously if the USA wins Saturday I will have 0 power rankings the following week so if someone wants to fill in let me know because if not it will be about 10,000-word document on US soccer). 

My Brain, 

PSPS: If you felt my example was a bit lacking of a "coming clean" moment and closed pretty quickly you were right. A week later formal night came for the KDR and they had a pregame party. I wasn't going to the formal but was gonna stay back and just party. At the pregame party, cocktails were flying Maci and I were vibing to the point nobody on this planet was going to stop us from banging. Feldy and her leave for formal - she was texting me the whole time that she wanted to bang - ubers/lyft wasn't a thing so a friend picked her up from formal after being there for 45 minutes (supposed to be an all night thing) - came back to the party (which was Feldys townhouse, not mine) - called a cab and it wasn't gonna be there for 30 minutes - we couldn't wait - Feldys room/bed was open - sorry again felds.

PSPSPS: I did come clean and tell Feldy the night after the formal that I banged his date in his bed. Still besties to this day. ✌

PSPSPSPS: A few weeks into hooking up, she got on some shrooms (and possibly some molly) across the street from my house at her friends, tried to break into my house to see me/hookup/tell me she loved me. I was right, she was a bit crazy.