Well, I don't like the idea of Al being treated badly by his romantic interests, but it doesn't bother me as much as the idea of him doing the bad treatment (after all, I'm sticking my neck out here as an admirer of Al; I don't feel any particular necessity to admire any of his lady friends, except, of course, his current, legal and last one-- hi, Suzanne!KnottyEmily @ Nov 1 2006, 04:28 AM wrote: I was thinking, instead of CBNC perhaps being retrospective [albeit an extremely loose one] of Al's journey to finding the perfect women, maybe it's a retrospective of how he was treated by women [again, taken to an extreme in the song]....just a thought I had earlier today
) And it doesn't make sense that when Al is consistently considerate in his dealings with everybody else, he'd be a jerk in his relations with women. But I'd also have to admit that Al was single for long enough that any amount of Really Stupid Stuff might have happened. Probably the well's not going to dry up any time soon when it comes to production of twisted love songs.
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) I really feel that Al would be a perfect gentleman, especially on a date, and would never do anything as ridiculous as the guy in CBNC. Sure, he isn't perfect, but I think that's really what the song is about as well. Everyone has special quirks that make them unique and loveable, and by embracing the quirks instead of dismissing them, you may find someone really perfect..FOR YOU...and Al did! 
Wait, that sounds juuuusst a little too Freudian to me.
