My girlfriend of 2 and a half years Beth just bought me golf lessons for my birthday.  I have no idea what to tell her.  I don’t actually need golf lessons.  She only thinks that I’m playing all this golf every day because that’s what I tell when I run off to go hang with the guys.  None of us play golf.  We mostly get really drunk, watch sports or movies, or just sit around and talk.  It’s never anything that interesting.  Just idiot guy talk.  I feel bad about lying to Beth all the time, but she doesn’t like any of my friends.   She thinks that they’re all bad influences on me and drag me down to their level.  Of course I don’t really like any of her friends.  They talk far too much and love the sounds of their own voices.  And their idea of a good time is just go shop and shop and shop and they have to gossip about every little thing everything everyone they know does.  I know my buddy Nathan was engaged an hour before he called to tell me because Beth’s friend Kate was blabbering about it when she, Beth, I, and Kate’s guy were having coffee.   I still do my best to put up with all Beth’s friends if only to make her happy.  Why can’t she do the same for me?