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My gift to men of all ages. Happy Holidays!

I woke up early this morning, went out into the freezing cold to take my son to the orthodontist….drove around on the icy streets to get gas and then took him to school.  All this with my frickin sinuses dripping down the back of my damn throat from the frickin pressure I’ve had in my head for like a week.  THEN, I came home and asked Shane one simple question.  “Can you pick up the flea meds at the vet for me?”

He made ‘that face’, sighed a deeeeep sigh.  I waited.  And then it came out…..I said….”Forget it, I’ll do it. “

Which brings me to the purpose of this post.  I have a young son, who I wish to educate in the art of ‘women speak’ so that he doesn’t end up in the same situations as many men do.  So here’s a little lesson for married and unmarried men:

If she has asked you to do something several times…well, even if only once….and she’s not getting a ‘satisfactory answer’ (for instance, “Sure, I’ll help you”, “Let me do it honey”, “Oh, I’ll get that”) within a reasonable amount of time  right away……

And she has to resort to using the following phrases….(you’re in big trouble mister.) Continue reading

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