Posted on 04/18/2008 8:47:15 AM PDT by najida
Rules that Girls Wish Guys Knew
1. Asking a girl on Friday for a date on Saturday is completely unacceptable. Keyword: Planning
2. Shave every day. One day's growth of facial hair is worse than a girl not shaving her legs for a week.
3. We may be emotional beings, but do not lie to squirm your way out of trouble. We are not as gullible as you think.
4. Learn to clean up the toilet. If peeing standing up is so difficult and you are bound to miss, then may we suggest that you learn to use a toilet brush and sponge to clean up after yourself.
5. We really don't find it attractive when you stand there stratching yourself in the morning, afternoon or night- please do it in private.
6. Don't do it, if you're not going to follow-thru. A woman would rather not have sex at all, than to have it and miss the climax by a mile because you weren't up for the challenge.
7. Don't fix it if it's really not broke. You don't need to take everything apart out of curiosity.
8. Ask for directions
9. If you said you are going to be somewhere at a certain time, then do it. Don't expect us to wait around.
10. Professional Wrestling and Soap Opera's are the same story lines, just different costumes. So don't make fun of us for being hooked on Y&R when you are hooked on RAW.
11. "I don't feel like talking right now" is an acceptable thing to say- Unacceptable thing to do is sit there and pretend you're listening and just say "uh huh" and "yes Dear"- it's condescending.
12. Get rid of your holey underwear.
13. If you can ogle so can we!
14. One remote is ENOUGH... no need to have a control tower in your living room.
15. Couch Potato is not a sport, so don't try to be an All-star at it!
16. Your way is not always the right way. Learn to say- "I was wrong"
17. If we can't talk to you during a football game, then don't try to get our attention during Gray's Anatomy.
18. If you say you are going to do something, then just do it. Don't sit around thinking of creative excuses why you couldn't get to it.
19. We are not your mothers, so don't expect us to clean up after you like one.
20. Wendy's is not considered a romantic dinner for two.
21. We have other friends of the male gender, so leave your jealousy at the door!
22. If you concede to let us decorate the house without any input from you, then don't complain when everything is in frilly flowers, and pink motif.
23. When wearing a dress shirt, wear an undershirt underneath. Nothing worse than seeing a man's hairy chest and nipples through his shirt. (PINK PINK PINK)
24. Hey, we CAN be friends with our ex's- so deal with it!
25. We understand that you have to put on a manly act in front of your friends, but in the privacy of your own home, it's okay if you just want to cuddle.
Unless the sex was awful with your ex and is wonderful with your spouse, THEN you want to send the ex’s wife a sympathy card and a gift cert for a Passion Party.
Sometimes, you’re glad it’s over.
>>Sometimes, you’re glad it’s over.<<
I agree. But if you are glad it is over, why would you be friends?
You live in the same town, work the same job, hang out in the same hobby/social circle, go to the same church, are married to relatives etc.etc.etc.
It’s not saying ‘OMIGOD! He is my BEST friend in the whole word forever!’ it is saying that you can have he and his wife over for a cookout with all your other friends. Or call him to for to ask a question about Cub scouts. Or chat for 5 minutes in the Kroger checkout line. It means you’re better friends than you ever were lovers.
>>You live in the same town, work the same job, hang out in the same hobby/social circle, go to the same church, are married to relatives etc.etc.etc.<<
In my personal case, we both left that church. I went to a different one and she just stopped going. When we DO meet, I don’t want to even give her eye contact unless we are REQUIRED to discuss something. It happens very rarely now that our three daughters are in their 20’s.
But more importantly, I don’t want my wife to be in the same room with me and a woman we both know I had sex with any more than absolutely necessary. It is out of respect for her that I do this.
I always say that one of the worst things that can happen to a divorced woman who is still trying to keep her ex engaged to some degree is for him to remarry. Once that happens, the ex and his current wife are like Jews and Arabs. And if they are not, they SHOULD be.
I base this on what I know and believe about base human nature.
I guess my attitude is why create bad feelings where not needed.
hardihar ... could be true.
I did learn from my hubby the sniff test — ie, that you actually CAN wear a tshirt from the laundry/from the day before, IF it passes the test. hahah.
A minute or two in the dryer.... Good as new!
I can see why we disagree. I haven’t formulated marital advice based on movies I’ve seen. I’ll place a lot more value on my personal relationships, including remaining lifelong friends with my first love, which must be going on 30 years. All the times we slept together hasn’t hurt our friendship. Then again what do I know, I’ve never even seen When Harry Met Sally or Best of Show.
Heh, heh. I haven’t formulated it on movies either. In my case also, it is on personal relationships. I offer the movie as comic relief.
Oh, and I’ll have what she’s having...
Both movies are pretty funny in their own way.
And maybe the main problem is that I am looking at this from the male perspective while you are looking at it from the female.
The whole running “gag” in When Harry Met Sally, which is actually BASED on what I believe to be the truth, is that men cannot be friends with women. There is always the sex drive.
I'm inclined to doubt it since I'm not in any way female. I do however have a great many female friends. despite being married for the last 17 years. And yes, a couple of those friendships were hotter relationships at points in the past.
Hmm, that’s a step above what we do. Good trick, tho, I’ll add it to my (very short) list of how to be elegant. haha. Nice to find like-minded folks here, tho.
LOL! I got trapped with that the other day. Come to think of it, I don't remember what the answer was. A new throw pillow, a candle or something - I can't recall.
Women marry men thinking they will change.
Men marry women thinking they will NOT change.
Therefore both are inevitably disappointed.
Einstein, I think.
Brilliant.
“24. Hey, we CAN be friends with our ex’s- so deal with it! “
Most accurate my fanny. “On speaking terms” is fine but how many women would like their men (esp. husbands) to be out with an ex who’s “just a friend.” Recipe for disaster if you ask me.
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