8 July 2008
What I still don’t understand about women.
Posted by Toner under: Life and Family .
If you add up time spent dating, living together, engagement and marriage, my wife and I have been together about ten years now.
I think we know each other pretty well.
Over the weekend, I was helping her hang some curtains up that we just got back from the dry cleaners.
Now, to clarify, in this particular room, we have “curtains” which are, ya know, curtains, and then we have something called “sheers” which are like these white strips of material that go in-between the curtains.
As we are putting the first set back up, my wife says, “We usually have two curtains and three sheers on each rod, do you think we should just change and do two and two?”
Of course I ask “why?”
And she says “no reason just asking.”
This perplexes me. Now, follow me here. As a man, if I give someone options there’s usually a reason. A pro/con perhaps. For example…
“Bob, do you want tequila or beer?” Essentially, I’m asking, “do you want to get drunk out of our minds or do you just want to chill, have a beer and watch the ballgame…” There are two clear options.
This leads me to believe, my wife, being a rational, intelligent woman, probably had some motive behind the question, but, what this motive is, will remain forever unknown to me for no reason I can figure out… i mean, was one answer better than another? I dunno…
Creepy man.
One Comment so far...
Tom Gebauer Says:
12 July 2008 at 9:23 am.
I had a similar experience the other day. My wife and I were in NYC leaving a concert. We walked across the street, and I went to hail a taxi. So I’m standing there, with my fingers up in the air, saying “What up, taxi?”. I wasn’t really having any trouble - there were lots of taxis - they were just all being “occupied” by other people leaving the concert.
So, my wife then asks me, how about we walk a block and half up the street to get a taxi? “Why?”, I ask. Because I’m not really having any issues here.
She just “Liked it better up there”, up the block. Where she then hailed the taxi, and felt really happy that she was able to do it.
Really, they’re not concerned with logical questions. Just keeping us men in our place.
Had you responded to your wife’s question with “Well, I believe that the two sheers would increase the light that comes into the room, and provides us with symmetry - feng shui, you know? two and two. I think it’s a great idea.”
She would probably say “I don’t know about that.”
You would say “Ok.” Then she would say, “Oh, nevermind”.
And the same result would have been reached.
Creepy man, indeed.