HANDWRITING:
To their credit, men do not decorate their penmanship. They just
chicken-scratch. Women use scented, colored stationary and they dot
their "i's" with circles and hearts. Women use ridiculously large
loops in their "p's" and "g's". It is a royal pain to read a note
from a woman. Even when she's dumping you, she'll put a smiley face
at the end of the note.
NICKNAMES:
If Gloria, Suzanne, Debra and Michelle go out for lunch, they will
call each other Gloria, Suzanne, Debra and Michelle. But if Mike,
Phil, Rob and Jack go out for a brewsky, they will affectionately
refer to each other as Bullethead, Godzilla, Peanuthead and
Useless.
EATING OUT:
And when the check comes, Mike, Phil, Rob and Jack will each throw
in $20 bills, even though it's only for $22.50. None of them will
have anything smaller, and none will actually admit they want
change back. When the girls get their check, out come the pocket
calculators.
BATHROOMS:
A man has five items in his bathroom: a toothbrush, shaving cream,
razor, a bar of Dial soap, and a towel from the Holiday Inn. The
average number of items in the typical woman's bathroom is 437. A
man would not be able to identify most of these items.
GROCERIES:
A woman makes a list of things she needs and then goes out to the
store and buys them. A man waits till the only items left in his
fridge are half a lime and a beer, then he goes grocery shopping.
He buys everything that looks good. By the time a man reaches the
checkout counter, his cart is packed tighter than the car on
Beverly Hillbillies. Of course, this will not stop him from going
to the 10-items-or-less lane.
SHOES:
When preparing for work, a woman will put on a Mondi wool suit,
then slip on Reebok sneakers. She will carry her dress shoes in a
plastic bag from Saks. When she gets to work, she will put on her
dress shoes. Five minutes later, she will kick them off because her
feet are under the desk. A man will wear the same pair of shoes all day.
CATS:
Women love cats. Men say they love cats, but when women aren't
looking, men kick cats.
OFFSPRING:
Ah, children. A woman knows all about her children. She knows
about dentist appointments and soccer games and romances and best
friends and favorite foods and secret fears and hopes and dreams. A
man is vaguely aware of some short people living in the house.
DRESSING UP:
A woman will dress up to: go shopping, water the plants, empty the
garbage, answer the phone, read a book, get the mail. A man will
dress up for: weddings and funerals.
LAUNDRY:
Women do laundry every couple of days. A man will wear every
article of clothing he owns, including his surgical pants that
were hip about eight years ago, before he will do his laundry. When he is
finally out of clothes, he will wear a dirty sweatshirt inside
out, rent a U-Haul and take his mountain of clothes to the laundromat.
Men always expect to meet beautiful women at the laundromat. This is a
myth perpetuated by reruns of old episodes of "Love, American Style."
WEDDINGS:
When reminiscing about weddings, women talk about "the ceremony."
Men talk about "the bachelor party."