Women and Men: The Difference

Last night in the wee hours of the morning, a persistent beeping made my wife crawl out of bed and go in search of it. After a few minutes, she called me, and I trolled out. The microwave was beeping, repeatedly, for no apparent reason, and she was tapping its buttons, trying to discern what was wrong. I said nothing – I just pulled the plug and went right back to bed.

And there in a nutshell is the difference between women and men.

The woman would have spent a good hour trying to qualify and discern the cause of this oddity, trying to understand the problem. (An admirable trait.)

The man eliminated the problem.

I now realise this is probably one of the only reasons women need men. We are linear to the point where our first reaction to any unknown is to eliminate it, and return to the previous task (in this case, sleeping). It makes us efficient when action is actually required, such as the destruction of bugs, moving stacks of objects to get to other objects, and silencing offensive microwave ovens.

Make what you will of it.