Happy Men

My brother-in-law mailed this to me...so guys tell us if it's true!

Why Men Are Just Happier People!

• Your last name stays put.
• The garage is all yours.
• Wedding plans take care of themselves.
• Chocolate is just another snack.
• You can be president.
• You can wear a white T-shirt to a water park.
• Car mechanics tell you the truth.
• The world is your urinal.
• You never have to drive to another gas station because this one's "just too icky.
• Same work, more pay.
• Wrinkles add character.
• Wedding dress - $5000; tux rental - $100.
• People never stare at your chest when you're talking to them.
• The occasional well-rendered belch is practically expected.
• New shoes don't cut, blister, or mangle your feet.
• One mood, ALL the time.
• Phone conversations are over in 30 seconds flat.
• You know stuff about tanks.
• A five- day vacation requires only one suitcase.
• You can open all your own jars.
• You get extra credit for the slightest act of thoughtfulness.
• If someone forgets to invite you, he or she can still be your friend.
• Your underwear is $8.95 for a three-pack.
• Everything on your face stays its original color.
• Three pairs of shoes are more than enough.
• You don't have to stop and think of which way to turn a nut on a bolt.
• You almost never have strap problems in public
• You are unable to see wrinkles in your clothes.
• The same hairstyle lasts for years, maybe decades.
• You don't have to shave below your neck.
• Your belly usually hides your big hips.
• One wallet and one pair of shoes, one color, all seasons.
• You can "do" your nails with a pocketknife.
• You have freedom of choice concerning growing a mustache!!
AND FINALLY....
• You can do Christmas shopping for 25 relatives, on December 24, in 45 minutes.

Comments

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  • Yep, Leslie, for the most part it sounds pretty good.

    The world being a urinal reminded me, yesterday a car passed me on the highway to work and when I got to my exit, he was parked along the side just off the highway. This is a secluded spot with a lot of trees and not a heavily used exit. Well, he was standing next to his car assuming the position. I wonder what the lady in the car behind me thought - it was very obvious what he was doing.
  • I like the one about "wedding plans take care of themselves". As the groom's father I attended a wedding planning meeting and it didn't take me long to figure out that anything I had to say didn't count. The bride's father was getting the same treatment. As it became really clear to us that our presence was about as welcome as a plague of leprosy, we retired to the kitchen and found some cold beer. Twasn't a bad meeting after all.
  • What were the words to that catchy tune, “Don’t worry . . .be happy.”x:7
  • A three pack of underwear for $8.95? Must not be going to Costo.
  • I spend a lot more than $8.95 for a three pack. I wish it were that cheap. Most of the other stuff I agree with. I don't even like going to weddings, I cant imagine planning one.
  • From the wedding aspect, I have 3 sons and even though the majority of the planning and expense is on the bride's family, by the time you pay for rehearsal dinner, pay for the minister, certain flowers, lodging for certain people.. and the list goes on, it still gets expensive not to mention the hassle and aggravation. I have already offered my youngest son $1,000. if he will elope or let a Judge or Justice of the Peace perform the ceremony and let us know when it's over.

  • Say it ain't so Popeye. I too have three sons, none of whom have walked down the aisle yet. Thought I was going to get off cheap!
  • Leslie, the key is for your sons to find girls with rich daddies. My son's father-in-law was a highly paid engineer for a major OEM who normally was tight with the buck, but spent freely on his little girl. My biggest expense was his mother-in-law insisted we have matching black suits - had to buy mine and one for the younger son. Well, the biggest was the rehearsal dinner. But, all reasonable. Now my daughter was another story. She was my little girl.
  • Two of my boys have likely candidates. One is working on her accounting degree, the other on her Phd in Economics. Their chosen professions notwithstanding, I think while their family's are comfortable I doubt the term wealthy would apply to either. Ah well, guess I can't expect to get off scott free.

    Okay, now where did that term come from?!?!?
  • My middle son's wedding was out of town (11 hour drive) so almost everything that was our responsibility had to be handled long distance or second handed by my daughter-in-laws family. By the time I had to pay for what was deemed the Grooms responsibility, I dropped over $2500 and this was for a guest list of about 500 and approx 375 showed up.
  • I will say this, when I got married the end ticket price shocked me. We had spent a grand total of $27,000. Luckily our parents had planned for this. How it ever got that much is beyond me.
  • Leslie asked where the term "scott free" came from. Obviously, not Scott Orr. Oh, that was bad.
  • I gotta agree with ya', POPEYE. Weddings are such a waste. My sister and her husband just blew through over $100,000 for her daughter's wedding. Heckuva good weekend party and the marraige lasted only slightly longer. What a colossol waste....throw an expensive party for two kids to go steady for less than a year!! Weddings are nothing but a big business anymore and I avoid them when I can. I made an exception when my oldest son got married. At least it was on a Friday so it didn't spoil the whole weekend. My share ran me $3000 and that's considered conservative!! And I don't even know what I paid for! Except the privelege to see my ex- mother-in-law with that same chiseled look on her face and a voice that sounds like a tornado alarm. My favorite part of the whole thing was "last call".
  • $100,000! That IS crazy. I'd rather have had a nice home, completely (or mostly) paid for! One of my former bosses cashed in his life insurance policy to pay for his daughter's SECOND wedding (Probably around $50,000). It lasted about a year. But this is the same girl that threw away 50 pairs of shoes in a dumpster because she ran out of closet space! What do you expect?
  • Speaking of weddings. I'm a happy guy because my daughter married a middle eastern man. In their culture the grooms family does, and pays for everything. Didn't cost a dime. Nice guy, too.
  • My daughter got married a week ago Saturday, and the sum total of my expenses were her dress ($79), her hair, manicure and pedicure ($80), my dress ($49), and outfits for the grandkids ($38). Since they've been living together for three years, and he's the father of her second child, they didn't want to go all out. However, it certainly wasn't the "mother-of-the-bride" experience one normally expects.

    They were married in the back yard of their tiny rented house - it was 102 degrees, and the humidity brought the heat index up to about 115. The groom (a "goth") was dressed in black slacks, a white poet shirt, and a top hat. His fingernails were polished in a subdued white opaque (they're usually black), and one of his eyebrow studs was lavender (to match the wedding color scheme). His added bonus - a pair of custom made vampire-style canine teeth, which he proudly wore during the ceremony.

    My ex-husband is a Lutheran minister, and performed the ceremony. The look on his face when Eric smiled at his bride - PRICELESS!

    (I was on vacation last week, and it's all I can do to catch up on all the postings - this is a really prolific group!)
  • psrcello,

    What a scene! Nobody kicked in a few bucks for a 12-pack??? Once upon a time, that's the kind of ceremony I would have expected from my two oldest sons, who were both "Goths" in high school and into college. Once I had to draw the line at my oldest borrowing my black eye liner. Anyhow, those times appear to have been left behind.
  • Oh, thank you! Someone who has actually seen this kind of behavior left behind! He will be turning 25 next week (as will my daughter), so I'm sure we've got a few more years of this, but maybe it will mellow over time.

    Yes, there was a pony keg of beer - he actually wanted to tap it the night before the wedding, but my daughter talked him out of it. No one got into the beer until after the bride and groom had toasted each other with Boone's Farm Sparkling Apple Wine (screw-off top, no less!) contributed by the groom's family.
  • [font size="1" color="#FF0000"]LAST EDITED ON 08-07-03 AT 07:55PM (CST)[/font][p]Yes it can happen! My oldest, 27, actually still is a bit into it but mostly for his theatrical side - he does poetry competitions (slams for those in the know). My 25-year-old has gone more professerish on me. He's in his third year of law school at Berkeley and has been doing some undergrad teaching. I expect him to come home any day now with a pipe in his mouth and leather patches on the elbows of his coat.

    Your daughter sounds like a smart woman. No good can come of a drunken binge the night before the wedding. I haven't drank Boone's Farm since 1973 - I didn't know they still made the stuff! Who are your daughter's in-laws? Jerry Garcia reborn and Grace Slick?!?!?!?


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