Better Than Expected

I learned an important truth last night. Guys are different than girls.

Disclaimer: I knew driving home last night that I would want to make somewhat of a commentary on the differences between men and women, but ultimate knew that my male readership would be offended. But then again, since the guys are in such the minority, I thought I would post my finding anyways. Besides, I am sure you are different from these guys, so don’t take it personally.

I don’t know if girls are better hosts, if they like entertaining more than guys do, or if we just host people so often that it has just become second nature.

Let’s imagine a girl has invited a guy over to her house to watch a movie, or over for dinner. If this was a premeditated idea, you know that everything from her outfit to the food will have been thoroughly thought out.

But if this was a somewhat impromptu invitation, the house would quickly be tidied up (just don’t look in our closets, under our bed or behind the couch.) some sort of food would be wrangled up and with just one look, roommates would immediately scatter.

We would apologize immensely for our untidiness, feel bad that all we had to offer was a few cookies and hope, with fingers crossed, you were having a good time.

Please note my guy hosting abilities are based on a few invitations that have been extended to me in the last little while and not a reflection of any one person.

Chances are when you show up at the house, his roommates have no idea you are coming over, and usually hang out the rest of the night to see if anything fun might be happening. The roommates will usually entertain you with tales of guns and old sports injuries or if you are lucky, you tube videos of monster trucks.

Efforts have been made to improve the general cleanliness of the house, proofed only by the vacuum still being in the middle of the room, but you will still have to move dirty dishes off the couch to sit down, and please, try not to venture into the bathroom.

Food might be an issue as usually there aren’t any clean dishes. You might be offered some scary looking Kraft Dinner that probably has been sitting all night on the stove. Of course, due to all the dirty dishes, chances are you will have to eat it right out of the pot.

If he wants you to come and watch the game, that is exactly what we will do. All conversation will stop, and extreme focus will be applied to the game. Any conversation that is made will be strictly pointing out great plays, or statistical information about the team.

Any movie we watch will be from his extensive collection of Terminator, James Bond, Die Hard or Rambo. He will be really into the explosions and will undoubtedly replay some of them frame by frame so you can get the full effect.

And just when you think that the whole evening was a waste, and you are convinced this boy barely even noticed you were at his house, is when he offers to walk you to your car just to tell you how beautiful he thinks you look, or offers you the last piece of a crudely made chocolate cake, surprisingly on a clean plate.

So guys might not be the same kind of hosts as girls are, and maybe that is okay. They tried, and really, that is all that matters. Looking forward to similar invitations, hopefully in the near future.

Grateful for all I have.
Go Flames Go.

As Always,