Tonight my husband explained to me how a “man’s” brain works. Keep reading, this only gets more interesting.
This afternoon while talking with our plumber AH mentioned how he would be home early on Friday. I look at him with raised eyebrows and respond with, “You’ll be home all day. I’m leaving for the beach at 8:30am.” “You didn’t tell me that.” he says. Oh yes I did.
After the plumber leaves he says, “So I’m supposed to take Friday off? I thought you were leaving Friday afternoon.” Of course my reply was, “I told you when I made the plans that you would have to take Friday off. That it was a long weekend away, which I am sure you will be taking one or two of this winter so you can go skiing.” End of subject, or so I thought.
When I got home tonight AH finds me and takes a moment to explain to me how a “man’s” brain works. He tells me it was my duty to remind him several times of the plans and because I didn’t do this it is not to be expected that he will remember. Essentially he cannot be expected to remember the plans, even though they didn’t change at all from what I originally told him, because he’s a man. (These are his words – which he repeated several times) Forget that for weeks I have been talking about this trip, planning the details and that it is on our family calendar. Apparently it is a woman’s responsibility to remember everything the first time and a man has to be told repeatedly before he is to be expected to retain any of the information (per AH, literally).
My response? Honey, I am sorry the male brain is inferior to the female but you still have kid duty all day Friday, Saturday and Sunday.
(Wait till he remembers there is no school on Friday - ouch!)
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OH, I forgot there wasn't school on Friday too. That's kind of funny. I'm glad that my husband isn't the only one who forgets things when they have been scheduled and talked about everyday.
What a relief to hear that this illness has afflicted other husbands as well. We've had similar experiences about needing multiple reminders recently, including this classic about his brothers' birthday (which he forgot until 10 days later) "You only reminded me once."
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