Conversation with My Wife (10)
Where a woman with hair explains it all to a man without
ME: <from shower> “Honey, I have a ‘Mars & Venus Question’ for you.”
DEB: <at sink, turning off water> “You have a WHAT question?”
ME: <emerging from shower> “Mars & Venus”
DEB: “Oh. Sorry, I thought you said ‘bars and meanness’ and that made no sense. What’s the question?”
ME: “I was was looking at Medium this morning and in just a quick perusal I saw two women who were talking about starting the new year with new haircuts. Is that a female thing?”
DEB: <thinking briefly> “Yes. Sometimes women don’t have a whole lot of control over our lives. One thing we almost always can change is our hair. So if we are about to make a change in our life, or if we want to change something but we can’t, changing our hair style can be a way of announcing the change or reasserting control. I haven’t done it since you’ve known me, but I used to get a perm or something every so often. But it grows out after awhile so I don’t bother any more.”
ME: “Thanks, honey!”
DEB: “You’re going to put this into a ‘Conversation…’ piece, aren’t you? And you’re going to mention the ‘bars & meanness’ thing so everyone knows your wife is going deaf.”
ME: “NO! Well, maybe. Tell you what, I’ll have the water running when I ask you at the beginning, and nobody reads to the end anyway* so you’ll be fine.”
*Except Tre. Thank you, Tre! Anybody else I would tag, but I know you’ll read this anyway. 😄
