by Rhonda Erickson

Created on: June 12, 2008

Have you ever experienced one of those really crazy times in your life, just so plainly stupid, that looking back on it, you have to ask yourself if it was real, or some fairy tale gone grossly wrong? The kind where your decision making process got scrambled, and left you feeling like a moron, playing the role of a character in "Nursery Rhymes on Elm Street" ? I have been there recently... and yep.. I got the tee shirt to prove it.

A quick look at the reality of my situation will help you understand why I chose to go into more detail in the fairy tale version. When you are a willing participant in such great scatterbrained, idiotic and self inflicted humiliation, making fun of yourself can be somewhat therapeutic....... or at least it will give you a few laughs between the fits of sorrowful sobbing.

Reality..... my husband cheated on me with my very best friend, we got a divorce. Afterwards, I had some very bad dating experiences. A little later I fell in "lust" with a man twenty years younger than me. I woke up one morning, three years later, dead broke, bankrupted, over my head in debt, and alone.

From the pages of "Mother Goose's Tales From the Dark Side"...the story of "The Perfume Princess,the Psycho Musician and the Evil Genie"

Once upon a time I was happily married for eighteen years. For my fortieth birthday I was granted a divorce, compliments of an unfaithful toad frog, caught kissing my equally unfaithful wicked witch of a best friend.

I swallowed the remaining lump of poison apple left in my throat and drifted off into Sleeping Beauty land.... better known as the dating world of a divorced, over forty year old woman.

I joined a local singles club, and after dating several Fire Breathing Dragons, all Three Little Pigs, a Troll or two, and one very Big Bad Wolf, I decided to try a new concept.... computer dating. There, I dated Sleazy, Grumpy, Pervert, Bashful, Dopey, Dummy and Creepy.

I did find a great deal on some new perfume in an online add. It was called "Genie in a Bottle", by Three Wishes Scents Inc., guaranteed to make your wildest wishes come true. At least I could smell good, even if I didn't have date. When my perfume arrived, it was in the most unique bottle.... shaped just like a golden magic lamp. There was a cute little green genie on one side, and the words "Three Wishes" on the other side. I sprayed a little on my arm, then held the bottle with both hands giving it a good rub and like all the princesses before me, said " I wish Prince

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