Too Hot to Handle

Just some stuff I've seen:

-A guy rushes out to buy the most exotic, fastest car he can afford without taking time to learn how to drive it. Still, he likes the way having a 200 mph sports car makes him feel about himself while he's picking up burgers at the drive-through.

-A guy shows up for his African safari with the biggest, most powerful rifle he can hold in two hands ... even though he's never fired it a single time because he's scared witless of the recoil, and can't hit a tree if he's standing beside it. But he still likes showing you the cartridges and explaining that he owns the baddest.

-A guy buys a bigger boat than his neighbor but ends up never taking it out, because he lacks the experience and skills to pilot such a big boat back to the dock all by himself though he's too embarrassed to admit it.

But he still enjoys hearing all the Wow's and whistles when strangers walk past when they see it tied up in its slip. Even though all the women he thought he'd attract have been attracted to the new biggest boat over at the adjacent dock.

Yet he'll bore your ears off telling you all the places his boat is capable of going.

That men like those pursue adornments and trophies, without understanding or being devoted to what they already have, to focus on simply having more symbols to bolster their self-image, might explain why their wives are so seldom mentioned during conversations.

When asked "Where's your wife?" the usual answer is "Oh, she'd rather stay home than do anything like this."

Hmmm. Wonder what the wives are doing while Captain Macho is busying soaping down his toy yacht, playing Great Hunter or waiting at red lights behind the steering wheel of his new $100,000 rocketmobile?

Come on guys, for pete's sake. All you're doing is looking silly ... and chances are your wife was the first one to notice.

Have you forgotten what Passion means?

Thursday's "Here's A Clue" Playlist:
I Want You (She's So Heavy) - The Beatles