May 31, 2007
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The Difference Between Males and Females
Woo! I’m in the lead for the fridge tour video voting, and I didn’t even beg you guys to vote. How cool is that?
Speaking of cool things, it’s raining here! Huzzah! The grass was dead, the rudbeckia was withered, and the pool water was perilously low. The sound of the storm was a nice backdrop to my evening of fun with some fellow homeschool moms. We were to dress in quintessential homeschool mom garb: a denim jumper. (I had to borrow one from Anne.) I complemented my outfit with sneakers, bobby socks, and a doo-rag. We got together and watched two music and skit videos of homeschool moms lampooning themselves. Oh, what a hoot! (The videos were produced by Funny Moms, but I think they are out of print.) The strawberry pie provided by our hostess, Judy B., was delicious.But, on to the difference…
Last night, Little Miss said to me, “Mom, I’m so tired. Can I sleep in tomorrow?” I thought that she must still be exhausted from all our weekend fun. She slept in and had Cheerios for a late breakfast. I made pancakes for lunch at her request. After that, I headed out the door to drop LibbyK off at her friend’s house and meet TGD for lunch at The Deli (most delicious fried mozzarella in the universe). Next, I headed to a doctor’s appointment and made a stop at Wal-Mart to replace our half-working toaster oven.
During the course of the few hours I was gone, there were about five phone calls between my house and my cell phone. “How is Little Miss? Where is the information for my history report? Can I play on the computer?” When I arrived home, I asked where Little Miss was. “Uh, she’s napping upstairs,” was Hunter’s reply. When I checked on LM, she was awake. “Mom, I have some good news and some bad news,” she said. “The good news is I feel better. The bad news is that I threw up two times.” WHAT? Yes, indeed, she had–all over the wall, the carpet, the window shade, and on the blankets on the chair near her target trash can.
I cleaned her and it up and quizzed the boys one-by-one.
Mom: Why didn’t you tell me LM threw up? It’s not as if we didn’t talk this afternoon.
Hunter: Well, she did it in the trash can.
Mom: Why didn’t you tell me LM threw up?
Wit: Well, she did it in the trash can.
Mom: Did you know LM threw up?
Gockle: Yeah, but she did it in the trash can.
Can you believe it? Three independent quizzings with identical answers. GAAH! Thus one of the many differences between male and female. Had LibbyK been home, I would have known right away.
What amusing or frustrating differences have you noticed between genders?
Comments (23)
lol that sounds just like boys…
A difference I greatly appreciate but have found frustrating is the difference in the way guys and girls react when a friend is hurting. Girls sympathize, talk about it, admire you if the think you have an unbelievably good attitude about it or try to counsel you if they think you’re not quite up tho their ideal. Guys simply do what they can to fix the problem and determinedly tease you until you smile. Having grown up with five boys, I find the girls’ attitude extremely annoying, but amusing at the same time…
I’ll be praying Little Miss feels better.
haha….. awesome….. thats exactly what I would have said….and yeah..i forgot that you knew about HEB….
Ahhh, the trash can…we like to refer to it as the “yuck bucket” from time to time.
You may come sit in my new chair and sip iced tea anytime!
yup.i actually listened to all the tracks..you see..
usually i listen to a cd..and there’s always those 1 or 2 good songs..and the rest of the cd always sort of sucks…and i end up shutting it off..or skipping tracks..i actually listened to this entire cd..without skipping tracks or turning it off once….
i highly recommend it..it’s a great CD.. not a well known band..but great songs..
good luck.by the way..i hope your fridge tour wins..
So funny! I hope she is feeling better now.
I’m sorry she was sick and I’m sorry for you (the mess) but that is a funny story! hahahah
Oh, that’s funny, teacherperson, and yet so true! I think that is so for all males (including dads)…
Merry
P.S. Very glad you replaced that toaster-oven. It was broken and HAD to go.
That’s a very enlightening and entertaining observation… I hope little Miss gets better soon.
That doesn’t sound like much fun, but it made a good story. I hope she feels better and I hope no one else gets it!
The difference that I’ve noticed the most is that we men do not mind using the same knife for yard work, surgery, finger nail cleaning, unclogging toilets (I’ve seen it done, but I’ll withold the details), killing vermin, and slicing cheese.
i have voted for you your ominous*cough cough* i mean, glorious fridge!!!! it was fantastic, and max the iced-cat stole the show….
I know, it’s my favorite so far…
Yeah, I actually watched your whole tour, unlike the many others that I did not want to finish… it’s the best! And what’s better than a fridge tour with Max the super cat (or something like that)!
I thought it was very interesting that the boys in our book club thought that killing for money was worse where almost all of the girls thought that killing for personal reasons (like just some weird grudge because you had a hatred for all blondes or something) was much worse. And I would have thought it would be the reverse.
Lol! Poor Little Miss. I hope she’s feeling better.
Amazingly, after all that you still have my mouth watering for fried cheese sticks. Ohhhh!
Aww…hope she gets better soon!!
And I like arohk’s comment. All too true.
hmmmm…..differences between males and females? Too many to count! I think one noticeable one is the ability to let things and events (like throw-up) just roll off of their backs like no big deal. BING! Just a thought…I wish I could do that!
Oh, sorry about all the b—, that is sooo yucky.
Okay, guys can never, ever find things even when they are right in front of them. I make FM#1 look forever and train him to pick up things and look behind them and I tell him that some day his wife will thank me that I broke him of the horrible nasty male habit of just looking and say “No it’s not there.” FM#2 I don’t have to worry about because he’s the same age as the DP, who is the best finder in the world, and he’s in competition with her, so he actually looks when I ask him to get something out of the pantry or my bathroom closet. He would hate to fail and hear the horrid words, “DP would you please go get it for me?”
yup..it’s actually quite interesting to take a look at.
Okay, here’s FM#2′s contribution to this question. By way of background, everybody is in the other room watching Superman w/ Christopher Reeve from 29 years ago (which explains why I’m at the computer for like forever). He asked why girls scream so much (I surmise he is referring to Margot Kidder as Lois Lane). He then commented, “Girls scream a lot. Boys just don’t scream that much. They just help.” So his vote would be — crisis: girls scream, boys help.
That is so funny and so true.
Skirt Girl : )
(If you don’t know how I am ask Wit)
Your new profile picture is ever so cute and your pose by the open door…dare I call it just a trifle alluring??? I left a comment farther down. This post answered a question that has been troubling me for twenty years: what is the quintissential homsechool mom outfit? But it left me with another. Why would you wear a doo-rag? Is that part of the quintessential homeschool mom outfit? No wonder I could never get it right.
See, the guys would analyze the situation and say “Well, Mom has all this stuff to do – if we tell her she’ll just get upset, come home, and not get her errands done.” Very task oriented (Mission Accomplishment if you’re miliarily inclined). Now, as to why no one accomplished the mission of cleaning up…