Left Brain.....Meet RIGHT Mama!

                             (Mr. and Mrs. Potato Head Inspired...Cake Toppers by TNZsculptures)   
          No, today's post is not going to be about the benefits of brain surgery, the place of Mosquitoes in the eco-system, or the best way to cut a cantaloupe with a pin knife when you're camping....or any other subject that might actually be worth the deep thought of pondering. ^_^ No! Today's post is about a silly conversation that hubby and I had that made me convinced that men and women just DON'T think the same way!!

                             (left brain/right brain notebook by redstarINK)
Of course, I already knew this! I mean, I've been married to the man for almost 29 years...And we were together, as a dating couple, 5 years before that!....And we grew up in the same neighborhood (once I came up North), so I've known him since before that!...from when I was about 12 years old!!!
      So, you'd think that, after all this time, nothing he says would surprise me!...But every day....it still does!! IT STILL DOES!! ^_^ Let me tell you what I mean...My girlfriend bought something for hubby when she was at BJ's store a few months back. What it is is not important, so I won't bore you with the particulars. But it was something he never used before, but that was invaluable to his being more efficient at his job!
    He raved about it. Said he didn't know why he never got it before,...'yada yada yada'!...Just for information purposes I'll tell you that this 'THING' is something that he'd have to keep purchasing for himself on occasion...every 2 months or so...from BJ's. And since we don't belong to BJ's club {UGH! that's another story!! ^_^}, he would have to have my girlfriend, or some other friend whose a BJ's club member, get it for him when he was about to run low.
   Okay......cut to almost 2 months later. He says to me: "Hey! I'm running low of...'that thing'! Where did your girlfriend get that from again?!"..."BJ's."...."Okay, I'm going to have to get over there somehow, and get some more."....Now it's 6 or 7 months later. My girlfriend calls and says:"Hey! I've got some of that 'THING' here at my house. I've got 3, in fact. Does your husband need any more?!"...."Actually, I don't think so." I say. "He said a couple months back that he was getting some. So he may actually already have it!"..."Okay," she says. "because I'm heading back over to BJ's later today. If he wants a couple of the ones I have here in the house he can come and get them, and I'll get more for us when I go."
    Now, here's why I say that men and women don't think the same way...

                            (This sign and those below are from icehousecrafts on Etsy)
...I said to hubby: "My girlfriend said....yada yada yada!...Do you have some already?!"....Hubby, in an aggravated voice says: "NO!! I don't have any! I told you months ago that I needed some! I told you to ask her to get me some more, but you didn't!!"...{Insert Scooby Doo's "Argh huh?!" here!!!}

         "What?!!! You never asked me to have her get you some!!"..."Yes I did!!"...."When?!!"..."Don't you remember when I asked you, months ago, where she got it from?!!!"...."Uh....yeah! But that's not the same as asking me to 'Please ask her to get me some more'!!!"..."Yes it is!!! Why did you think I was asking?!!"

        Now, I could have been really 'fresh' {sarcastic} and said: 'I thought you were asking because your left brain and right brain were working together, and you figured that since that 'THING' is not going to materialize in the house through Scotty's triquarter, {Star Trek reference} you might need to know how to go, or who to go for you, to get it!!...Silly me! What was I thinking!!'....But what I actually said was: "I don't know dear. But I wasn't thinking that! You have to be more specific." To which he looked at me like I had 3 heads...which I "was" growing at the moment...and one of them had steam building in it like a locomotive train!! LOL
     How did his not having his 'THING' for months now, and him using some non-working substitute 'jimmied up' 'THING' because he didn't have a BJ's club card to go get the real 'THING', get to be MY FAULT?!!!....UGH!!! And make no mistake, in his brain it was my fault! And no amount of reasoning on the subject on my part, for the whole of yesterday and this morning, has changed that!! LOL It remains MY FAULT that he doesn't have his 'THING'!! :-/
      All I have to say is that I'm so glad that I know who I am!!!...If I was somebody else I'd be crying and feeling awful that I didn't get his cues and hints about his 'THING', or I'd be sending my girlfriend over there to get him 15 of those 'THINGS' so he'd never run out again, or I'd be fixing him nice meals and rubbing his feet out of embarrassment that I'm so slow to figure things out!!....O_0
     Instead....I'm writing a blog post about it, with a poem, and hoping that if he needs that 'THING' bad enough he'll  figure out a way to get it! Or else he'll let me know, so I can call my girlfriend to go get it for him!...As of now, that hasn't happened. And I'm done with it! I've got crocheting to do! ^_^ My RIGHT brain is in good working order...until proved otherwise!! 

Marital Language

Does your husband speak your language?
Does he get your moods and quirks?
Or do things he says make you question
if his mind still works?!

Does your wife know all your feelings,
as she should, by what you do?
Or does she keep right on talking,
while your face is turning blue?!

Does your marriage live it's own life,
while you two are stuck like glue?
Or are you doing the best you can,
and glad that they'll put up with you!