Men are From Mars, Women are From Out Of Nowhere
My wife spent her birthday money yesterday. She bought a skillet and a self-straining saucepan.
Don’t get me wrong — they’re very nice examples of the skillet-and-saucepan persuasion. T-Fal, even, which is one of the brands they do allow at Dillards. But kitchen stuff for a birthday present?
Long ago, I learned the best way to marriage hell was for a husband to buy his wife a food processor for her birthday. So I’m entirely baffled why she would go and spend perfectly good birthday money on totally mundane living-type stuff like a skillet and saucepan. I mean, those kinds of purchases are what paycheck money is for!
If you ask me, she needs to be more selfish. Just think of what she could have bought — computer parts, power tools, car parts, or even a new science fiction TV series on DVD!
I’ll never understand women.
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If they had been purchased with household budget funds, Joe would have felt (rightly) that they were as much his as mine. By spending birthday money on them, I have the right to forbid anyone else to use them. Especially those who think the only two settings on the stove are “off” and “burn down the house”.
(Of course, I shouldn’t be too hard on him. My first test of the strainer lid resulted in an entire potful of boiled potatoes going down the sink disposal. Oh, well…)