pelf-ism is contagious

I was telling J over lunch a snippet of a blog post I read yesterday about an article similar to those found in the famous book “Men are from Mars, Women from Venus”. Well, no, I didn’t tell him it was a BLOG POST. I just said I read “from somewhere”..

Anyway, the (blog) author shared an article about two separate diary entries written by a wife and a husband. While the wife wrote about how she was late for a coffee appointment with her husband, and how she thought he was angry at her; about her husband refusing to talk to her; and about how she felt she was “losing him”, all that the husband wrote was “Today Manchester United lost the match. DAMN IT!”

I digressed, didn’t I?

Anyway, J agreed whole-heartedly with the article and how we women always “think and worry about unnecessary stuff”. But that wasn’t what I wanted to write about.

After a while, in between chewing his nasi goreng + ayam goreng + telur mata, he said, “Now you know!”

And I was like, “But that was just an article similar to a famous book. Why don’t you get me one of those books?”

“Why don’t you download it from the Internet?” Yea, we poor students rely heavily on pirated stuff.

“Because I don’t like to read a book in front of the computer screen! I would rather HOLD the book in my hands.”

“OK.. Why don’t you read the book from the computer, but also hold another book in your hands? You can flip the pages whenever you like.”

“AARRGGHHH!!”