We weren't even thinking of dating each other, but both my friend and the Drunk Guy insisted that we were chatting each other up. It is wierd when two people get something that wrong. I assured her that I would double, extra, not date the guy, in that case.

She said that the Civilized Guy had come to the park as part of a stalking thing. She said he'd never come to the park before, but he knew that she stayed there. There were some clothes left on the picnic table bench. She said that he left them there. I didn't remember seeing him holding them, but I wasn't watching for this. She acted like the left clothes were some kind of sinister marking thing for the stalking. They looked like wadded up old clothes. They could have been work or excercise clothes.

She insisted that all this was true in the most vociferous manner.

The wierd thing: before the Civilized Guy left, she spent a long time trying to cheer him up because he had broken someone's rib through an accident. I was not appreciating this because it was an elderly woman's rib, and he was negligent. I didn't think that cheer ups were appropriate. Can you imagine getting left somewhere at night twice by a guy and then not saying a word when he dropped by your picnic table and then trying to make him laugh because he broke someome's rib? I can't, no matter how hard I try. The Drunk Guy was even telling her not to make false accusations.

The wierd thing is, we are all intelligent people in our forties, but her and the Drunk Guy were massively projecting flirting behaviors onto the Civilized Guy and me and also between me and Drunk Guy. They were also pretending that the Drunk Guy's behaviors were flirting when it was clear to any intelligent person that they were hostile.

In my friend's mind, did my non existent "popularity" cause her to make all of this up to keep me away from one of her on-call harem? I think it could be. She tries to keep all of these alcoholic construction workers on call if she needs a place to park/shower/ or have sex. She does it by talking dirty and having sex with them. This appears to work for her. There are some hitches in the system since none of the parties are models of mental health.