FileTitle: Prose585.html
Category: Humor
Type: Prose
Description: Men and Women Are Not Alike
NEWS BULLETIN - Men and women are NOT alike. Sure, you thought you
already knew that. But now we have proof! After countless hours of
surveys and studies on the following topics, these facts
have emerged:
Relationships:
First of all, a man does not call a relationship a relationship - he
refers to it as "that time when me and Suzie was doing it on a
semi-regular basis". When a relationship ends, a woman will cry and
pour her heart out to her girlfriends, and she will write a poem
titled "All Men Are Idiots". Then she will get on
with her life. A man has a little more trouble letting go. Six months
after the break-up, at 3:00 a.m. on a Saturday night, he will call and
say, "I just wanted to let you know you ruined my life, and I'll never
forgive you, and I hate you, and you're a total floozy. But I want you
to know there's always a chance for us". This is known as the "I Hate
You/I Love You" drunken phone call, that 99% of all men have made at
least once. There are community colleges that offer courses to help
men get over this need; alas, these classes rarely prove effective.
Sex:
Women prefer 30 - 45 minutes of foreplay. Men prefer 30 - 45 seconds
of foreplay. Men consider driving back to her place as part of the
foreplay.
Maturity:
Women mature much faster than men. Most 17-year-old females can
function as adults. Most 17-year-old males are still trading baseball
cards and giving each other wedgies after gym class. This is why high
school romances rarely work out.
Comedy:
Let's say a small group of men and women are in a room, watching
television, and an episode of "The Three Stooges" comes on.
Immediately, the men will get very excited; they will laugh
uproariously, and even try to imitate the actions of Curly, man's
favorite stooge. The women will roll their eyes and groan and wait it
out.
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.
Bathrooms:
A man has at most six items in his bathroom - a toothbrush,
toothpaste, shaving cream, razor, a bar of Dial soap, and a towel from
the Holiday Inn. The average number of items in a typical woman's
bathroom is 437. A man would not be able to identify most of these
items.