Males are one-dimensional creatures that take
directions as given. Maybe that’s why
they read maps better? But that’s digressing. Maybe that’s why men fail to
read equivocation accurately. Simple solution (and guys do always look for
simple solutions): tell it straight as it is.
Illustration
F: I wanna talk to you.
M
receives message, decides that it’s time to leave, waits
for bus at bus stop.
F: I actually
don’t feel like talking.
M sees no point in going home so
early then. Decides to take an alternative bus that goes,
maybe, nowhere. Somewhere quiet, somewhere far to spend some alone-time
thinking and clearing the mind.
F: Home? Go
online?
M on bus, decides to go home instead
then. Alights in the middle of a rather-nowhere place, looks for familiar bus
route to take bus back home as soon as possible. No such luck at this bus stop.
Spots another bus stop a junction across, crosses the road towards it hoping to
find bus.
F: ): Nvm
M stops in the middle of road –
there’s no traffic anyway. Drops bag, sets instrument down. Sits down and
blanks for fifteen minutes. Total silence, total absence of
thoughts. Still no traffic, no hope for buses, he surmises at the end of
those fifteen minutes. Enough
wasting of time today. Let
this day be over. Let’s go home. Oh it’s past twelve. Booking fee for cabs is
waived. So why not call a cab. Since there isn’t going to be any bus coming
anyway. Cab arrives, sets off for home.
That’s our
inadequacy. That’s how we are simple-minded creatures incapable of higher-order
thinking.
dejectium out
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