Went to Bajio for lunch today- and Youngest file found this on the Kaleidescope-
By RED GREEN
Okay it all comes down to pride. We're out there driving around in our own vehicle, burning gas, wearing sunglasses, looking good.
People who see us driving by would never guess that we have no idea where we are. And we don't want to tell them. Men don't enjoy the concept of going up to total strangers and saying "You may not know this but I'm a moron."
In contrast the woman we're traveling with is often very anxious to share this knowledge with the world. It somehow eases her burden. To women, getting lost on a trip is a blameless act of nature - to men it's a personal failure. He knew where he was when he left home - he doesn't know where he is now. Somewhere along the line he crossed the line from the world he knows into the world he doesn't know. To a man this is how he felt when he got married or had kids. If he admits he's lost in the car, he'll have to admit that he's lost everywhere and that's way too much to ask. So just bite your tongue and circle the block a few more times. Men aren't lost, they just go the long way.
We're all in the same boat, and the women are on the shore laughing.
A man's most important emotion is a feeling of competence. I am good at what I do. Women who understand men are careful to make her man feel competent.
My mother was one of the 1% that innately understood this. She may have been irritated with my father but she never made him feel incompetent.
> We're all in the same boat, and the women are on the shore laughing.
I am on shore. Never been lost in my life. My dad could get lost in a small town of 1600.
SJ
On occasion, I deviate from my planned route but I am never lost.
>If he admits he's lost in the car, he'll have to admit that he's lost everywhere and that's way too much to ask.
I'm thinking that there is potentially a huge market for stealth versions of the GPS navigation devices that order the driver to turn here or there, suggestions delivered in a sexy female voice with an exotic accent. Probably something that could be hidden out of sight with a bluetooth earpiece would do the trick for those without an innate male sense of direction as reliable as yogic flying. :>
Yeah, but someone might mistake that bluetooth ear device for a hearing aid and you know us men can't admit that we're deaf, either...
What was that?
Don't buy one of the new GPS kitties though. They don't work all that well.
BECAUSE WE ARE NOT LOST!
