Have you noticed men and women are different?
Startling insight – ranks right up there with the revelation that men
are from Mars and women are from Venus, but I do not expect to make a bestseller
out of this.
Have you noticed men and women are different?
Startling insight – ranks right up there with the revelation that men
are from Mars and women are from Venus, but I do not expect to make a bestseller
out of this.
Still, as a slow learner and a fast “forgetter,” the particulars
of the differences have recently been reenforced for me.
For instance, a woman will chose a clean flower bed over her husband having
a clean boat. A man had rather have a trolling motor that raises and lowers
smoothly than to have the back screen door open and close freely.
Given two hours of non-scheduled time, a man will chose to oil and spool properly
every fishing reel on the place while a woman would rather he invest those hours
manicuring the yard. A man sees the strategic nature of cleaning and oiling
his deer rifle, but a woman would rather him clean the oil off the carport floor
and clear a crawl space into the carport storage area so the family can get
out the Christmas decorations this year for a change.
A woman would rather have dust-free shelves. A man would rather make dust on
the way to his favorite fishing or hunting spot. A woman would rather have a
“straightened house” and a man would rather have a duck blind or deer
box stand cluttered with snack wrappers.
A man would rather have a new four-wheel drive ATV, but a woman will go for
a new sofa every time.
A woman, if left unchecked, will demand a vermin-free woodpile over her husbands
idle hope that the dog or cat will keep it vermin-free. Women consider seeing
the tiniest of mice inside the utility room a greater crisis than the fish of
a lifetime slipping off the hook. For a woman, it is no mice over a sure hook
set; for a man, it is a sure hook set and what mice?
A woman will chose to have her husband sitting next to her in a theater showing
a chick flick over him sitting on a deer stand watching a trophy buck slip into
the open. Closely related, a woman had rather have the outside trim on the house
painted than to have her husbands trophy deer and fish hanging on an interior
wall.
A man will not notice a shutter falling off but a woman will notice the tiniest
piece of paint peeling on the highest point of the house. A woman would rather
have a man clean up his mess after finding that for which he was searching.
The man had rather leave the mess and step over it and around it for the next
month. And the woman says the man gets no exercise.
For a woman, when a man says “I will do that,” she believes he will
do it in the foreseeable future, say the next month or so. For the man, it means
sometime in the unforeseeable future, as when he has absolutely nothing else
to do, usually the next year or so, if she is lucky.
When a woman asks, “Are you going to wear that?” a man thinks it
is a question. It is a command: “Dont you dare wear that.”
A woman always will chose a closed cabinet door. A man had rather leave it
open so it will remind him to celebrate finding the peanut butter and jelly.
Besides, he knows if he closes the cabinet door, he will just have to open it
again when he wants something out of the cabinet, like in a few days.
A man always will chose to wait until the last minute to buy his wife a gift
for a special occasion rather than listen carefully for several months to discover
exactly what she wants so he can give her the perfect gift. On other occasions,
the woman never will drop a sure hint of what she wants for her birthday or
anniversary and, then, pout for anywhere from hours to months because the husband
did not get exactly the right gift that “he should have known I wanted.”
A woman, on the other hand, always will buy a man exactly the gift she wants
him to have so there is no problem of wondering what to buy.
Still, men really are not from Mars and women really are not from Venus. They
are from the creative hand of God. God must have known that between the two
of them, as different as they are, they could get a few things done – like
repopulating the earth.
Besides, can you just imagine all the fun God has watching men trying to figure
women and women trying to remake men?