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Ron Jackson's Perspective
The Sunday Journal -
Think
Kankakee, Illinois
March 7, 1999
Men and women are
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This is not news - but men and women are
different. I have known this for a long time. However, I
recently re-experienced it during two separate events with my wife and
two similar events with a buddy that just proved it: a trip to the
mall and a night on the town.
Case One: One morning my wife says she "needs"
a new pair of shoes and asks if I will accompany her to the mall.
Even with my aversion to shopping malls, I obliged. After all, how
long could it take to buy one pair of shoes? So off we go with no
other specifics than a pair of shoes.
I was lucky! Just inside the mall entrance was a women's shoe
store. In and out we would be. Wrong! Even though she
did like several pairs, she still wanted to check out another store down
the way. Same results there; she liked three or four pairs but
still "needed" to check out a third store. It is
now 90 minutes later and she has approved of 12 pairs of shoes, but she
still "needs" to check just one more store. How
many women's shoe stores can one mall have? We finally left after
a couple of hours, but with no shoe purchase. She couldn't decide
which pair to buy and her urgent "need" had
mysteriously disappeared.
Same Case: A friend calls and says he is running to the
mall to buy a pair of the latest Brand X hi-tops with a blue stripe and
asked if I would ride along. We arrive at the same mall. He
goes directly to Store X and tells the sales rep what he wants in a size
11. He pays cash and we are out of there in 15 minutes tops.
And he didn't even "need" to try them on. We stopped for burgers and fries and chatted for another 90 minutes or
so. When I got home my wife asked, "So it took you two
hours to get a pair of shoes?" I just smiled and said,
"No".
Case Two: I took my wife to a club to hear a blues
band. Before we left she had a few concerns; what should she wear,
who would be there and what were the seating arrangements?
Questions I could not answer. Upon arriving, she questions the
doorman about seating and he explains that since it is so crowded
inside, there is open seating. But she still attempts to walk
through this very crowded place holding my hand.
After standing for a brief time, we found some good seats and sat down
to enjoy some excellent entertainment. Not long after my wife asks
if I had noticed one particularly striking female patron and I
acknowledged that I had. She then asks if I had noticed a specific
part of her anatomy. Again I said that I had, elaborating that it
was like a sunset - nice to look at, but I did not want to get any
closer to it.
"So, you were looking at her?" , my wife asks
again. I explained further that like a sunset, some things cannot
be ignored.
Same Case: I invited a male friend to see a live local
band. He said sure - right away. This place was crowded too,
but we made our way through without holding hands and found some
seats. As I sat there enjoying the music and people-watching, just
as I do when I am with my wife, my friend did not accuse me of ignoring
him. Though he did suddenly exclaim, "Man! Did you see
that!", referring to a very shapely female. I said that I had
and offered my description of the sunset - nice to look at but not
wanting to go there. All he said was, "Huh?"
We certainly are different. If we weren't, I suppose we'd marry
our buddies. But I doubt that would work because I don't think my
buddy would look good in the red dress I just bought my wife. |
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