To paraphrase Dr. Laura Schlessinger: men have simple needs, which does not imply that we are simpleminded (a point that, I’m sure, some female readers may take issue with), I will open with article on living room furniture with a little vignette about the selection of the type of seats in our new SUV. Being an outdoorsman, I am naturally interested in functionality over style so I told the dealer I was interested in cloth seats. My better half wanted leather seats. Want to guess at what kind of seats we drove off in? The correct answer is leather.
A woman asking a man about what he likes in living room furniture, in my opinion, is the same as her asking you if she is “fat”. Does she really want an honest answer or is she simply asking you to reconfirm what she believes? I think by now you are getting the idea that it is the same as my mother asking my brother and I if we wanted peas and carrots at the dinner table. When we said “no thank you”, she simply began scooping mounds and mounds of the green and orange veggies on to our plates and when we objected, she simply replied, “asking you boys was just a formality”. My sense is that style, color and size of the sofa carries about as much weight as declining the “request” for peas and carrots.
