She's Training You
Earlier tonight I was listening to a comedian explain about the training that women do for the men in their lives. He said, "Now fellas, if there's a woman in your life - mother, sister, girlfriend, it doesn't matter - she's training you. She might not be using a cattle prod, but you can bet your life she's training you just the same. One night after we'd been married about five years, we were lying in bed reading and my wife said, 'I'm a little warm.' Straight way *I* put *my* book down, shuffled over to the switch for the ceiling fan, flipped it on and turned to walk back to the bed. About halfway there it hit me. I could just her excited call to her Mama, telling her about how well trained I am and her Mama telling her how proud she is of her. Mama would probably tell her Daddy but he'd be gone to the store because Mama had mentioned she was a little hungry."
Believe there isn't a lot of truth in this? Think about it for a bit... ;)
posted by Lady Julia @ 10:42 PM
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That's so true. My wife does that "I'm so hot" commet, which really means "turn the fan on" often. Some others I've heard lately in our household after going to bed are:
"I can't remember if I turned the dishwasher on".
"The garbage truck comes in the morning, doesn't it? (which really means get up and wheel the garbage can to the road).
"I forgot to feed the cat".
"What's that noise, is the back door locked?"
Or my favorite after a very loud bolt of lightning:
"I can't remember if I pulled the windows down".
I never really thought about it that way, but training is exactly what it is - a very humbling lifelong process.
You are so right. I never realized that she was doing this. Maybe my wife is more dominant than I realized.
She has trained me in other ways too now that I think about it. When we got married I was a bit of a slob. She's trained me not to leave my clothes laying around all over the house, not to curse in front of her, and to do my chores without her having to hound me. She simply did it all in a way that was so subtle I didn't know she was doing it. I thought it was my idea. Sometimes I slip and I can see how disappointed she is. That is not something I enjoy seeing.
One of the keys to comedy is for people to see the truth behind the joke. And this one has obviously hit home. I thought of things instantly. I don't even try to keep the TV remote any more. I may take it and adjust it, but I give it back when I am through with it.
When she calls for me, I come all the way across the house to see what she wants.
"Honey, kill that bug," is taken care of at once, even though bugs don't bother me a bit, and I know there are ten more bugs where that one came from.
My wife is not overtly dominant. But she definitely has me trained.
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