It's like the singing telegram joke sorta, you know?
Men are basically idiots. I'm not hating on them, per se, I'm just in a place right now where there is sufficient evidence to suggest that broad statement holds true enough.
During what I call my "decade of death" when I buried ... well, TONS of people, we developed without realizing it, a sort of phone-call-making tree. Probably, in retrospect, not a great thing, since I got to the point that whenever I heard: "Hi, it's _______ calling" I knew someone else had died, since that was the ONLY reason those people and I ever talked, or got together any more, and consequently, I developed an unintentional aversion to hearing their voice on the phone.
I was reminded of this yesterday, and the day before, when I got, out of the blue, an email from my (only living) uncle with the subject line: "Bozo in hospital." There was no text in the message, just a picture of my one of (two living) aunts in a hospital gown.
Sooooooo I shot back a email asking WHY she was in the hospital, and yesterday, he wrote back "Oh, she had a stroke."
Okay, is this something WOMEN do too, or is it just a "guy thing?" Like ... would he have even TOLD me, if I'd not ASKED??
It's like the singing telegram joke sorta, you know?
Men are basically idiots. I'm not hating on them, per se, I'm just in a place right now where there is sufficient evidence to suggest that broad statement holds true enough.
Okay, is this something WOMEN do too, or is it just a "guy thing?" Like ... would he have even TOLD me, if I'd not ASKED??
It's like the singing telegram joke sorta, you know?
i think partly it may be a generational kind of thing, this reluctance to speak of illnesses. and part of it may be due to privacy concerns and that may extend down to our generation. i know when i am ill i dont want the cause of any illness i may have made public to all. its my business to disseminate that info as i see fit. for the generation above us there was a stigma to many illnesses. cancer for example. i dont have a complete family medical history because i dont know how most of my older relatives died. my mothers brother died very young he was prolly in his 40s i asked why she said he was ill. i said from what she said i dont know. i am sure she did, but didnt want to share. same with both of my grandmothers. i am clueless as to what killed them other than they died of some form of cancer and both were young. given the lack of surviving females in my family i can guess what the cause of death was but have no way of confirming it.
nah...i think women generally get the details.....most guys i know, if it is not sports, dont bother with details.....reminds me of a conversation i had with a male aquaintance who's wife's best friend, who i was sorta friends with, was pregnant.
guy: oh, uh, trina had the baby.....
me: that's wonderful!!! when did she have it...?
guy: ummmm, i dont know...sometime last week, i think.
During what I call my "decade of death" when I buried ... well, TONS of people, we developed without realizing it, a sort of phone-call-making tree. Probably, in retrospect, not a great thing, since I got to the point that whenever I heard: "Hi, it's _______ calling" I knew someone else had died, since that was the ONLY reason those people and I ever talked, or got together any more, and consequently, I developed an unintentional aversion to hearing their voice on the phone.
I was reminded of this yesterday, and the day before, when I got, out of the blue, an email from my (only living) uncle with the subject line: "Bozo in hospital." There was no text in the message, just a picture of my one of (two living) aunts in a hospital gown.
Sooooooo I shot back a email asking WHY she was in the hospital, and yesterday, he wrote back "Oh, she had a stroke."
Okay, is this something WOMEN do too, or is it just a "guy thing?" Like ... would he have even TOLD me, if I'd not ASKED??
It's like the singing telegram joke sorta, you know?
