Last night Bill and I went to see the Jann Arden concert in Ottawa. He told one of his friends this, and the guy says, "wow, that's gotta earn you major brownie points!" (of course, I'm paraphrasing...I wasn't there).
What is it with men and "brownie points" anyways??? If they do something with us, especially something that they wouldn't choose to do on their own, they apparently earn these so-called "brownie points". If they earn enough of these "brownie points" they can then 'cash' them in/exchange them for something they want to do, that they think we wouldn't otherwise want them to do. For example, a guy takes his girl to see a chick flick...he earns "brownie points", then later he tells his sweetie how much he'd like to go out with the guys for a beer, or get in an extra round of golf (or warhammer game!). The theory is that the girl feels loved (or whatever) by the "unselfish act" of her guy taking her to see that chick flick, that she says sure he can do *enter guy thing here*...she doesn't mind. She still feels loved, he gets to go do the thing he wanted to do in the first place.
If you're a guy...you're probably thinking, "yep, we're pretty smart, aren't we!"
If you're a girl...you're probably thinking, "hold on here...you mean he's just doing something nice for me to get something for himself out of it???"
There's nothing 'unselfish' about his supposed 'unselfish act' at all, now is there. Nope!
I know that when Bill wants to see a movie that I don't want to see, I'll often go with him...not to earn "brownie points", but because I love him, and I want him to be happy. I don't think, "hummm, if I do this for him...I wonder what I can get out of it?" *head shaking going on*
(yeah, yeah, I know this is all tongue-on-cheek...but it amuses me just the same)
Bill and I talked about this last night...and apparently, girls can't earn "brownie points". Say what??? Are you telling me that the guys of the world have this idea cornered...all to themselves??? That's a pity...it could come in handy the next time I want $300 to go see Madonna!!!
One thing I still don't know...and I'd love some help figuring out...how does one know how many "brownie points" a certain 'unselfish act' will earn you? I don't know the system, but I'd bet that taking your wife to a Jann Arden concert will earn you many more points than taking her to see the next chick flick at the theatre. I'm also sure that if your girl wanted to see the ballet, opera or musical, that would earn tons more "brownie points" than seeing a chick concert.
Anyways, as we walked into the NAC last night, there were many men there. I turned to look at Bill and said, "I guess there are lots of guys getting mega "brownie points" tonight!" ;)
(thanks for taking me to the concert babe...now, when was it you wanted that extra warhammer game???)
5 comments:
Sigh, I think I lost all the brownie points I may have earned for taking you to the concert by letting you onto the brownie point system! Alas! ;)
It's not like you haven't joked about it before :p
It's true - girls don't NEED to earn brownie points since they control the whole operation in the first place. Females are throttled to infinite brownie points from the get-go.
I guess we don't need brownie points 'cause we're cute! :p Besides...you guys usually let us get whatever we want because you think/hope it will lead to sex...lol!!! MUHAHAHAHAHAHA...we have all the power!!!!!!!
You don't know how right you are ;)
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