Points to me for being perceptive
It's no secret to a lot of people that I have a lot of sisters. I often use that fact to claim a higher understanding of female behaviour, but really, to me, girls are still a mystery. I generally don't know why they do what they do when they do it. The other day however, I was in a situation where I needed some women's intuition to pick up what was going on, and I did it successfully. I was talking to a female friend of mine about her plans for the upcoming year. (I still live in a semi-University world, so "year" means September to August.) I had heard what she was initially planning on doing, and I asked if that was still her plan. She looked at me and said, "No, I'm doing something else next year," but she looked at me as if I should know what the 'something else' was. It was the kind of female smirk that I generally despise because I have no idea what it means. So then I thought, "If she said that to a girl, that girl would get it. So what would be obvious to a girl that isn't obvious to me?" And then it hit me, so I said to her, "Oh, you're having a baby!" I said it with the appropriate level of excitement, despite the fact that, if incorrect, I had just issued a pretty dangerous statement. (Of the few things I know about women, I should collect them into a book, a very short book. Female life lesson: When a woman isn't pregnant, she doesn't like other people to imply that she is.) She nodded her head, and we talked about the pregnancy etc, and I gave myself a point for perception.

   [ posted by William @ 11:16 AM ]