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- From: karsten@netcom.com (karsten)
- Subject: Re: Don't laugh, but
- Message-ID: <1993Jan23.081119.5602@netcom.com>
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- Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 08:11:19 GMT
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- harwell@TENET.EDU (Anne Burton Harwell) writes:
- > You know, if there's ONE thing that men do which really <pisses me off>,
- > (and there's not just one, there's thousands), it's buying a woman an
- > ostensible present which is costly and extravagant, which is really for
- > themselves. I've seen men give women power tools, special furniture,
- > computers, even morotcycles.
-
- As if no women would appreciate power tools, special furniture,
- computers or motorcycles.
-
- I know at least two women who would like all four.
-
- BTW, many women have their own versions of this behavior.
-
- The first is buying stuff for men that the men don't want but the women
- wish the men wanted. I never wear sweaters but I've received a dozen of
- them over the last ten years from women who hoped I'd start wearing them.
-
- The second is buying the same stuff for men that they otherwise would
- have but this time calling it a present. My dad gets new socks or
- underwear from my mom every Christmas and has to act like they are
- different from the socks and underwear she buys the rest of the year.
-
- --karsten
-
- ("Oh look - Fruit of the Loom briefs - thank you, honey!" Blech.)
-