NICKNAMES: • If Laura, Kate & Sarah go out for lunch, they will call each other Laura, Kate & Sarah. • If Mike, Dave & John go out for lunch, they will affectionately refer to each other as Fat Boy, Dickhead and Shit for Brains. EATING OUT • When the bill arrives, Mike, Dave & John will each throw in $20, even though it’s only for $32.50. None of them will have anything smaller and none will actually admit they want change back. • When the girls get the bill, out come the pocket calculators. MONEY • A man will pay $2 for a $1 item he needs • A woman will pay $1 for a $2 item that she doesn’t need because it’s on sale. BATHROOMS • A man has 6 items in his bathroom: toothbrush and toothpaste, shaving cream, razor, a bar of soap and a towel. • The average number of items in the typical woman’s bathroom is 337. A man would not be able to identify more than 20 of these items. ARGUMENTS • A woman has the last word in any argument. • Anything a man says after that is the beginning of a new argument. FUTURE • A woman worries about the future until she gets a husband. • A man never worries about the future until he gets a wife. SUCCESS • A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. • A successful woman is one who can find such a man. MARRIAGE • A woman marries a man expecting he will change, but he doesn’t. • A man marries a woman expecting that she won’t change, but she does. DRESSING UP • A woman will dress up to go shopping, water the plants, empty the trash, answer the phone, read a book and get the mail. • A man will dress up for weddings and funerals. NATURAL • Men wake up as good looking as when they went to bed. • Women somehow deteriorate during the night. OFFSPRING • Ah, children. A woman knows all about her children. She knows about dentist appointments and romances, best friends, favourite foods, secret fears and hopes and dreams. • A man is vaguely aware of some short people living in the house.
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY A married man should forget all his faults, mistakes and other shortcomings. There is no point in two people remembering the same thing.
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