Colour me male.
But not green with envy.
It's no secret men and women see the world through different lenses.
Most probably are not old enough to have read Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus.
At the time it was perceived, by some, as a landmark treatise on the battle of the sexes.
Author John Gray set out to improve relationships between men and women by attempting to understand the communication styles and emotional needs of each sex.
As you might guess from the title, Gray suggested men and women are as different as beings from
different planets.
And as such, the only way to co-habitate is to understand the code of conduct of the opposite sex.
What was so surprising about the book, was that it was such a big seller. As recently as two years ago the book series had sold more than 50-million copies worldwide, was the No. 1 selling relationship book of all time and sat on the New York Times Bestseller List for almost seven years.
What, we didn't know men and women were different?
Just ask any married couple, independently of course, and they would have no trouble delineating the difference.
Even single women know the
difference.
Single guys - not so much.
I had my own epiphany last week.
After staggering up the stairs in a middle-of-the-night answer to the call of nature.
I had a tussle with a bath mat.
Guess who won?
Not the balding, bearded old guy!
The bath mat went left, I went crash and the next thing you know, neck brace here I come.
A couple of days later I slipped back into bathroom, scooped up the offending mat and had it in the garbage before the little beggar knew what was happening to him.
Unfortunately, my wife had grown quite accustomed to having her feet caressed and warmed by Mat.
It wasn't necessary for me to have read the above mentioned author, to know this wasn't an argument even worth having.
Off I went.
Once in the store, what lay before was a depressingly small
number of options.
White, green and taupe were my choices.
I knew the green was the wrong colour green (are you starting to get it).
Even as a bachelor it might have twigged that not all greens are green.
I knew instantly white was a bad choice (it's that cleaning thing) and taupe doesn't go with anything in the bathroom.
Taupe! That was my epiphany.
Prior to marrying the most-wonderful-woman-in-the-world, that would have been dirty brown to me.
I realized then I'm becoming a Venusian.
