Man Law

[legion]

Most women seem to regard all of their SO's male friends as idiots.

I was reflecting on this...

Well, I was reflecting on this after covering for a friend to his wife. I was thinking to myself: "Man, she must really think I'm an idiot because I'm always taking the blame for the dumb things he does." (It goes both ways.)

The man law is that if your friend does something stupid, you take the blame with the SO so that he does not get "punished".

There an old joke about a woman that stays out all night and doesn't come home. The next morning, the husband calls the wife's female friends and each tells him that she left the bar with some other guy.

The next weekend, the man stays out all night and doesn't come home. The next morning, the wife calls the husband's male friends and each tells her that he is on the friend's couch, passed out right now...

So it's not that men have stupid friends, it's that they take the blame for each other's stupidity.

[Dan in Pasadena]

You married them gentlemen, they didn't adopt you. You aren't "in trouble" unless you allow yourselves to be.

Example: Your woman is all pi$$ed off because you used the toilet and didn't put the seat back down? Aren't all commodes made for both sexes? They are. Is it ANY harder to put the seat down than it is to lift it up? It is not. Is there any certainty that a woman will be the next person to use the commode after you do? No, you might use it again before she does. And last (my favorite) is it YOUR FAULT because a grown person is stupid enough to sit their @ss down in a bowl of water when they know they need the seat to be down and don't check it? No it is not. YOU check it, why can't they? So why are you "in trouble" if you leave the seat up? Because you allow it.

We all get "in trouble" because we didn't all say (in the beginning of our relationships when they ooh, ooh, ooh...loved us to death, baby!) "Hon, I love you and I am committed to you and I want to please you but I am never "in trouble" in my own home...and neither are you. If you have a complaint, lets talk about it but don't ever try to "punish" me as though I'm a child because I will not stand for it. If we treat each other as adults, we'll always be fine." We get in trouble because in our desire to have a good relationship, we acquiesce, back down, ease up, say "its not really that important to me". Well intended and stupid. Grow back your set.

This concludes the rant of a middle aged man who survived (barely) a divorce after 20 years!

[svandamme]

if the man law says you gotta cover up your friend's infidelity , his lack of loyalty
by lying
then fogetaboutit, i'll break that law

[legion]

I never said what I was actually covering for...

I simply said that I did some covering, then told an illustrative story...

(BTW, I covered for him not wearing his seat belt--his wife freaks about it...)

[nostatic]

so what do you do in this situation:

new g/f has a drawer at your place to keep some clothes for "sleepovers."

you, being a nice guy, wash her stuff along with yours when you do laundry, fold it, and put it away in "her" drawer.

said g/f comes over, looks in drawer and gets instantly pissed. Holds up pair of underwear and says, "these aren't mine."

[dhoward]

"I just bought those for you because I thought you would look great in them".

[dhoward]

Washed them so they wouldn't give you the new panty itchies.

[dhoward]

You don't like surprises?

[dhoward]

Your hair looks terrific today

[dhoward]

Are those new shoes?

[Burnin' oil]

Originally Posted by nostatic

so what do you do in this situation:

new g/f has a drawer at your place to keep some clothes for "sleepovers."

you, being a nice guy, wash her stuff along with yours when you do laundry, fold it, and put it away in "her" drawer.

said g/f comes over, looks in drawer and gets instantly pissed. Holds up pair of underwear and says, "these aren't mine."

You wash her clothes separately from yours.

[nostatic]

heh. The sad thing if I'm not sure who's they are. But I do know they're not recent which is the only real applicable issue for her. Logic really isn't in play here though. Near as I can figure they were on the floor under the drawers or tucked into a drawer and when I cleaned my stuff out they got in with the laundry.

At least that's my story and I'm sticking to it...I mean his story and he's sticking to it.

[dtw]

Originally Posted by nostatic

so what do you do in this situation:

new g/f has a drawer at your place to keep some clothes for "sleepovers."

you, being a nice guy, wash her stuff along with yours when you do laundry, fold it, and put it away in "her" drawer.

said g/f comes over, looks in drawer and gets instantly pissed. Holds up pair of underwear and says, "these aren't mine."

Snatch panty out of her hand, cover your nose with them, inhale deeply, look back at her and go "you're right!"

Toss panty back in the drawer and walk out of room.

[Burnin' oil]

Originally Posted by nostatic

The sad thing if I'm not sure who's they are.

I assume you mean to say "The sad thing is I'm not sure whose they are." In which case, you are a slut. Don't let Tabs know.

[craigster59]

Sounds like the old joke about 2 guys in the gym locker room getting dressed and one guy starts putting on panties. The other guy says "Joe, since when did you start wearing womens underwear?" Joe says "Since my Wife found a pair in the glove compartment."

[Flatbutt1]

Originally Posted by svandamme

if the man law says you gotta cover up your friend's infidelity , his lack of loyalty
by lying
then fogetaboutit, i'll break that law

If a buddy strays from the straight and narrow thats his business, I never know anything.

[SlowToady]

Could you hear the "DAMN RIGHT!" I just gave you?

Nostatic: Tell her, "no, of course they aren't...but I thought they'd look good on you, too"

Originally Posted by Dan in Pasadena

You married them gentlemen, they didn't adopt you. You aren't "in trouble" unless you allow yourselves to be.

Example: Your woman is all pi$$ed off because you used the toilet and didn't put the seat back down? Aren't all commodes made for both sexes? They are. Is it ANY harder to put the seat down than it is to lift it up? It is not. Is there any certainty that a woman will be the next person to use the commode after you do? No, you might use it again before she does. And last (my favorite) is it YOUR FAULT because a grown person is stupid enough to sit their @ss down in a bowl of water when they know they need the seat to be down and don't check it? No it is not. YOU check it, why can't they? So why are you "in trouble" if you leave the seat up? Because you allow it.

We all get "in trouble" because we didn't all say (in the beginning of our relationships when they ooh, ooh, ooh...loved us to death, baby!) "Hon, I love you and I am committed to you and I want to please you but I am never "in trouble" in my own home...and neither are you. If you have a complaint, lets talk about it but don't ever try to "punish" me as though I'm a child because I will not stand for it. If we treat each other as adults, we'll always be fine." We get in trouble because in our desire to have a good relationship, we acquiesce, back down, ease up, say "its not really that important to me". Well intended and stupid. Grow back your set.

This concludes the rant of a middle aged man who survived (barely) a divorce after 20 years!

[peppy]

I should show this to my wife, and she will think I am GREAT!!

[Flatbutt1]

Originally Posted by peppy

I should show this to my wife, and she will think I am GREAT!!

and we'd let her think so!

[Rick Lee]

I have a buddy who's very bad to his wife and has regularly used my name as cover, as she thinks I'm kinda honest and reliable (dunno why). Several times she has called me late at night looking for her hubby when he didn't give me a heads up. Other times I was with him in the car en route to another titty bar or whatever and had to remain totally silent in the background as he told her some outrageous story. It was pretty pathetic. But the man law is as inviolable as that of universal gravitational pull. You don't even think of trying break it. You never know when you may need it.