She Doesn’t Want Her Cougar Friend To Take A Figure Drawing Class Her Son Models In
This 43-year-old woman has a friend named Joan around her age who is the definition of extra.
Everything Joan does is over the top. Joan is loud, she’s outspoken, and she’s forever drawing attention to herself.
Joan describes herself as a cougar; she’s divorced and interested in young guys. She even talks up quite a tawdry game around her romantic interests.
While she thinks Joan is exciting to be around, sometimes Joan is too much to handle. As for her husband, he dislikes Joan because of her bold personality.
Now, in their city, one of the art museums offers different drawing classes, one of which is focused on figure drawing.
“Fine, I’m not an artist (I’ve tried! I can’t draw a straight line), but I know that is important to those who are,” she explained.
“A year or so ago my son Sam (19M) actually volunteered as a life model for those classes. The museum had put out a call for models, and since they were looking for athletic types (there was some kind of Greek athletes theme to the class, I think), he and his best friend, who is also a teammate at school, volunteered; they basically dared each other, I think.”
“Sam actually enjoyed doing it, and they paid pretty well. Sam actually thought it was highway robbery to just hang around and be still with his clothes off for an hour twice a week and then get a check. Hey, more power to him; he has never been shy.”
She doesn’t discuss Sam’s little side hustle, so she was shocked when she found out that Joan signed up for the class he models for.
David Ferencik – stock.adobe.com – illustrative purposes only, not the actual person
Joan likes to think she’s part of society and enjoys dropping into community events, but she’s not artsy in the least.
She suspects Joan is interested in the class since it will allow her to exercise her inner cougar – it is an excuse to be around attractive guys.
She’s grossed out to think about this but is fully aware Joan is going for the eye candy and not the artistic instruction.
“When she mentioned she was taking the class, I said, “Oh. Wait, no, Sam is modeling in that class.” Joan gave a faux-shocked face and said, “Oh, IS he?” and smiled with raised eyebrows. Ewww again,” she added.
“Joan has never said anything OVERTLY wildly inappropriate about Sam before, but she has made some comments about him (and his friends) that I’d consider more than borderline.”
“I would rather that she not be involved with this at all or that Sam would not model for the upcoming round of classes.”
She’s wondering if it would be wrong of her to somehow put a stop to this. Her husband shares her opinion that Joan signing up for the class is cringe.
She’s worried it will make her a jerk to intervene instead of minding her own business. She would like to convince Joan to drop out of the class or tell Sam to not model while Joan is participating.
She would hate to tell her son he’s not allowed to model, but she would like to find an alternative solution so it doesn’t come down to that.
What do you think she should do?
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