|
Jackpot
Some of my favorite
nights are the ones when I’m out drinking with the girls. It is usually an
interesting mix of characters. They come from all over. Greece, Holland,
Germany, Austria, England, Canada, you name it.
Age doesn’t matter either...the
youngest is 18, the oldest, way in her 60s. The only thing we all demand is
a positive attitude and a big time party mood.
Most
of us have kids, some have husbands or boyfriends, so we don’t go out early,
dinner has to be taken care of beforehand...so 10 o’clock is our usual time.
We drink, we dance, we drink some more and we talk. About everything.
Economics, religion, politics, friends in trouble and...men.
If I am excruciatingly honest, which I intend to be, we mostly talk about
men. Sorry guys.
One of these fairly
recent nights started me looking at the subject from a different point of
view. First of all, I thought it was amazing how the coupled friends
supported their spouses. Mind you, I used to do the same. Unbelievable
loyalty and love dripped off their words: “I don't mind getting him his
coffee (5 times a day I was guessing) he works so hard.” Or:
“He needs to be able to unwind (like every day) with his friends
after work.” Or: “It's my fault he's getting fat, I don't cook healthy
enough (of course he's shoving it
down his face with a gun held against his head).”
Well,
this got me thinking, cause, you see, most of these friends of mine have a
full-time job that pays for a hell of a lot of bills.
And most of these friends have a
couple of kids to tend too. All of them cook everyday and a good 75 percent
take care of the household on their own. And, when they are not doing
that they are playing taxi
driver, getting the kids to school or to karate or music lessons or to
english class three bloody times
a week. If there are no kids involved, I assure you they are taking care of
other important “couple” business, like the tax returns or the rent
subsidies or the shit tank being emptied or the washing machine fixed...while
they bring him his coffee.
|
Let’s not forget finances. How many times
have I heard: “Well, we can't really afford it but he really needs a new
computer...a new television...a new play station? To do what girls, to be on
Facebook, watch high definition World Cup football and play Mario Karts
simultaneously? Not!
Wake up and get a grip. They can't
find clean socks and get dressed at the same time, how could they possibly
manage all of the above? You work for it ladies, you deserve more. A nice
haircut now and then, a day at the spa, those gorgeous new shoes, more
nights out with the girls. 'Cause, you know what? While you're running
around like an idiot taking care of things, he's eyeing that cute, carefree,
well polished and well dressed girl that has her life in order. Forgetting
totally that you once were that girl, the one he fell in love with and whom
he has now transformed into his mother!
So girls, get your lives back. Or, for
the lucky ones, the girls that have a great spouse, that do have a rock they
can lean on, the girls that do feel loved and supported: Get your toe nails
painted hot red, loose those extra pounds, spray on his favorite perfume and
put on a sexy dress now and then, for you have hit the jackpot and he
deserves it.
|
