The pressure of what to write on this momentous first entry was actually almost too much. But an idea came to me as I thought back to conversations I've had with grown people who in retrospect should know better. So here it goes:
Say you are on a date, maybe even a first date, and the cute little girl across from you sweetly asks, "Whatcha do today?" She is asking for the highlights like "went to the movies", "cleaned the house", "met an old friend for lunch" She does not at all want the conversation to go like this:
"Well I got up, started the coffee, brushed my teeth, took a shower, got dressed. By then it was 6:30 and I decided to sit and read the paper. I started with the sports section zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz"
When someone asks you how you are doing it is never good to answer "I think I'm going through menopause." Really, although your good friends might care, most of the world will be stuck for a response. We might fumble around a while and finally come up with, "uuuhh... good luck with that."
When one of your wife's girlfriends tells you that they enjoyed going to the rodeo with your wife, your comeback should not be, "Yeah, doesn't she look great in a pair of jeans?" Cause in all honesty that is probably not why your wife's friends hang out with her ~ and what can their response to you be? "Yeah man! Way to go!!"
Other topics to avoid: underwear, your particular type of underwear, vomit, your colon (and as an aside we never want to see you gettting a colonoscopy -- what was the perky Katie Couric thinking), and any type of description of what your insides look like from a doctor's point of view.
TTFN
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