After Lunch

An amusing snapshot that provides a living example of the blinding flash of the obvious.  What would this instance bring to the forefront out of the background?  Men and women in the endless, fruitless effort to communicate.

“We are each going to have our own yogurt today for dessert”

“Why? We always share”

“Because you like the apple crumb and I don’t”

“Well, then we’ll have a different one”

“No, I’ll eat half of the strawberry, and you have the apple crumb because sooner or later it will have to be eaten”

“Oh alright”

“The honeymoon is over; next thing will be the divorce”

“It’s the little things”

“Yup, you don’t see them coming”

“Reminds me of that proverbial rhyme For want of a nail; for the want of a nail the shoe was lost, for the want of a shoe the horse was lost; for the want of a horse the knight was lost; for the want of the knight the battle was lost; and want of the battle the kingdom was lost, all for the want of a horseshoe nail.”

Pause

“We need to put birdseed on the Home Depot list”

“Ya know I could have bet a million dollars that I would not have guessed you would have responded in that way to what I just told you”

“You think I don’t listen to you don’t you?”

“Well, I wonder…it’s like you telling me that the umbrella on the deck needed to be taken down because the rain was coming”

“Yes?”

“Well I see the umbrella is down”

“I wanted to be nice; I knew you were working in the study, so I took it down”

“Then why did you tell me it needed taking down when you decided to do it?  That’s what drives men crazy.  Women say they want something done, but if we don’t do it right away you go ahead and do it for yourself.  And if we object to having to stop what we are doing in order to get it done right away, so you won’t pout, you’ll say you didn’t mean right away; when you did.”

“I didn’t want it done right away.  When I saw you were busy I went ahead and did it myself”

“And that’s fine.  I think if you’re able to do it, then do it and ask for my help when you need it or when you want it done right away; or that you can wait until I have time to do it.  Because I DO want you to be happy, and I AM willing to cooperate and accomplish those things you’d like done.  And that’s just what I wanted to say.  Well, no that’s not JUST what I wanted to say about that practice, but that’ll do for now”

“We need to get more birdseed”

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