A definite difference

Men and women react to the same situation in different ways.

That's how we are. Seldom are we on the same wave length.

Last week a man went to visit his neighbor, Joseph. He took along his white puppy to play with the neighbor's puppies.

The pups romped and played, twisting and tumbling and chewing and growling and having a great time together.

The men decided to do some welding on some farm equipment. The pups continued playing and two of the pups headed toward a small backyard fishing pond, not far away

The men paid no mind and continued welding..

The woman of the house returned home, greeted the men, then went about doing womanly things.

A short time later she walked around the corner of the house, holding a wet dripping white puppy.

"Why is this puppy wet", she accused the men. "This puppy could get sick being wet like this."

The man who owned the pup, stifled a laugh, and drawled, "Well, I don't know how he got wet.. Last time I saw him, he was goin' fishin'."

The woman huffed into the house, got a towel, and began drying the puppy.

Now that's a prime example of how men and women are different. They can look at the same situation and have opposite perceptions.

To the men, a wet pup was no big deal. But the woman's mothering instinct surfaced and she became a caretaker.

I remember when my children were young, maybe two and six, I left them in the care of my husband while I bought groceries. My girlfriend, who had three young children, decided to go with me. Her husband brought their three children to my house where the men would babysit the five children. That was the plan.

When I returned from shopping, the children had written all over the wallpaper with crayons. The bedroom where they played had been ransacked, with toys helter skelter all over the room; on the bed, under the bed, and all over the floor. My husband and my friend's husband sat in the living room, oblivious to the bedlam. One child was jumping up and down on the bed, swinging a play sword.

A women would have handled the same situation in a different way. Likely, she would have removed the colors in advance, monitored their activities, and perhaps put a couple of them down for afternoon naps, away from the others. She probably would have played some games with them or structured their playtime.

Again, men perceived the whole situation differently..No big deal.

Physical differences are obvious but I'm talking about social differences, behaviors and thoughts.

It is said that men compare while women share.

When men get together they discuss events, ballgames, swapping scores, cars.. When women get together they discuss family, issues, people,feelings.

Men's conversations tend to focus on facts, while women tend to emphasize the feelings behind the facts.

Have you ever heard a woman describe her husband as "thick-headed?"

Well, actually he is. A man's skull is thicker and stronger than a woman's. But women have four times as many brain cells connecting the right and left side of their brain.

That's why a woman can do multiple activities at the same time. She may do three things while a man focuses on one.

Men and women just don't think alike on a lot of issues.

We don't even think alike where clothes are concerned.

For women, clothing can be a major focal point. They are concerned about style and fashion and if their clothes accentuate or hide certain features.

A man is content with jeans (or khaki's) and a t-shirt. It's the uniform of the average Joe everywhere. No, I'm not forgetting the exception to the rule. There are always a few good men who prefer to dress a little nicer, even when it isn't required. I'm talking about the average guy who sees clothes as a necessity, nothing more.

A woman will keep a man waiting at the door jingling the car keys while she puts the finishing touches on her makeup.

Men don't like to shop. They shop to complete a mission. A man can buy a pair of shoes in six minutes. The average woman enjoys shopping, and store sales, She can spend half a day in a mall looking for the exact pair of shoes she wants. For her, shopping is an outing, not a hit and run.

Sometimes I wonder if the Lord God played a joke on us. He made man and woman in His image, yet they are opposites. They live in vastly different worlds.

After Adam and Eve sinned by eating the forbidden fruit in the Garden of Eden, God was angry. He dealt out punishment to the serpent and to Adam and Eve. One thing He said was that man would rule over woman. I think that's the root of the trouble. Now God's creatures fight over power, sex, money, how to raise the kids, and if the commode lid should be up or down.

A man spends a lot of time thinking, "Just what does she want?" She spends a lot of time thinking, "I shouldn't have to tell him. He should know."

So we might as well accept it.

Women can never expect men to think the way women do, and vice versa.

Men are from Mars; women are from Venus.

And so will it ever be.