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Laugh a
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He
and She (She includes He) by Madan Saluja, CEO, Amar
Management Pvt. Ltd. Ahmedabad |
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What is a man? A man is
a creature of superlative intelligence who can
understand the principles of satellite weather
forecasting, the atomic bomb, the Computer and the
share market. Be he cannot understand how to fold his
own shirt. He also can’t understand how to boil milk
without burning bottom. A man has a remarkable memory.
He can recall the score of 1968 Cricket Test match
between India England at Lords, the number of seats
each political party won and the number of votes
polled by Ruling party in the last elections and the
mileage of his first car. |
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But he can’t remember
what size socks he wears, the age of his children and
in what classes his children are studying.
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And what is a woman? A
woman is a scatter brain who can’t read a slide -
rule, can’t follow a road map, can’t remember what
beats what in bridge, what is her husband’s office
telephone number and is vague about the make and model
of the family car. But she can recall vivid details of
the embroidery and frills on the blue silk saree she
wore on her engagement and she can mentally calculate
the dhobis bill, while she is ironing a blouse,
helping one child compose a letter to his teacher and
listening to another child’s complaint of his friend.
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A man has astounding
manual expertise. He can undo a hopelessly tangled
badminton net. He can repair an electric plug, fix a
carburetor, operate a power saw and park a 17 foot car
in a 16 foot parking space. A woman can’t do anything
like that. She has great difficulty in opening a jar
of pickles. But she can unjam a stuck zip. She can
remove a hot pan from burning stove with bare hands.
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A man is decisive. He
can make instantaneous decision about mergers and
advertising campaigns, Production Programme and new
shares issue. But he has to appeal to his wife to help
him decide which tie to wear with his blue suit and
what present to give to his close friend on his
birthday.
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A man can’t bear a baby crying
in the middle of night and continues to sleep
undisturbed. But if a child taps the table while he is
talking to some one on telephone, he gets perturbed.
A man has calm, philosophic attitude about losses in
his friend’s business or the burning of his
neighbour’s house, but he becomes a bundle of nerves
when he does not get a proper seat in train or plane
or a room in a chosen hotel on a holiday.
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Men are practical, hard headed, realists, quite
unlike women, who are notoriously child-like when it
comes to anything concerning money. A man can prove
that buying a new car is cheaper in the long run than
getting two new tires for his old car.
A woman wants a new saree - when she wants one and
does not care whether her husband can afford it or
not.
All in all, a man is absolutely indispensable. He is
brilliant, resourceful, brave, strong, steady and rock
to lean upon. But it is his utter helplessness that’s
his greatest asset because it gives his wife knowledge
and assurance that she is indispensable and he can’t
get along without her. As indeed he cannot.
Come to think of it,
this isn’t such a bad state of affairs.
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