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Poet deVine
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Member Seraphic
since 1999-05-26
Posts 22612Hurricane Alley |
Why is it that they think they have to control everything? I mean take the remote for instance....why is it that guys think they MUST flip from channel to channel to channel to channel in an endless search for something better??? And that's another thing...why is it that some men don't see that the BEST thing that ever happened to them is RIGHT there under their nose???? sigh.........this vent will self-destruct in 5 seconds............ .............. |
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serenity blaze Member Empyrean
since 2000-02-02
Posts 27738 |
I confess. I stand before you, accused and freely admitting, I am a remote control junkie. FLIP FLIP FLIP....I like the amusement of chaos...  and last time I checked? (wait, will do so again) YEP....STILL A WOMAN!!!!! |
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Poet deVine
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Member Seraphic
since 1999-05-26
Posts 22612Hurricane Alley |
serenity!!! I think you should turn in your membership to the National Organization of Women!!! (LOL) |
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JLR Senior Member
since 2001-02-04
Posts 1785 |
Well, had to reply to this...sorry to say, though, it's not just men. Control freaks abound! Not me, I hate control, too much responsibilty! |
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Paula Finn Member Ascendant
since 2000-06-17
Posts 5546missouri |
PdV? Do like I do...HIDE the remote...its more fun than watching any comedy on tv...they wont walk the two feet to press the tv button HAHAHAHAHAHAHA |
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Dopey Dope
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Member Patricius
since 2000-08-30
Posts 11132San Juan, Puerto Rico |
Why? Because we can!  |
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Severn Member Rara Avis
since 1999-07-17
Posts 7704 |
A certain someone and I have had a heated discussion over the remote control recently...in the end I will of course win...he just needs to realise it ~smiling sweetly~  K |
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Nan
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Member Seraphic
since 1999-05-20
Posts 21191Cape Cod Massachusetts USA |
Just get another remote - with dual controls... or one of those TV's with the picture insert thingy and let him flip the little pic til eternity... Just don't settle for the little one yourself?... LOL... TV? What's that?...  |
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Kit McCallum
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Member Laureate
since 2000-04-30
Posts 14774Ontario, Canada |
And why so many remotes? We've got the original TV remote, the stereo remote, the VCR remote, and some other remote I don't know what it even does. And who invented the "universal remote"? Got one of those too ... sheesh! Thank goodness the buttons on the TV still work ...  |
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doreen peri Member Elite
since 1999-05-25
Posts 3812Virginia |
possible solutions -- 1- separate tvs in separate rooms. 2- separate houses.... lol....that works even better..!! they want you more when they see you less which can be considered a good thing by some, but then again... *sigh*... still thinking on that one... but i do know that nobody can control what they don't see!!!! become the "remote"... move out... rofl!!!!! i crack myself up sometimes... oh, and serene-one... i love that line about being amused by chaos!! that's a pome, m'friend... (where've you been harpo??) |
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inot2B Member Elite
since 2000-09-18
Posts 2205Arkansas |
Ok Dopey you are in control, now you HANDLE IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
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Sven
since 1999-11-23
Posts 14937East Lansing, MI USA |
um. . . sheesh deVine. . . I'd answer this. . . but. . . I can't find the remote!!!!  *Sven steps back from this topic and waits to see how it develops* ------------------------------------------------------------- To the world, you may only be one person. But to one person, you may be the world. |
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Temptress
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Member Rara Avis
since 1999-06-15
Posts 7136Mobile, AL |
Try having a CD player in vehicle that can be controled by remoted control! LOL! There have been some arguments over that one for sure! I understand the remote control possesion, although my reasons for wanting to possess it are entirely different from some mens' reasons. I want to control it so they can't freaking change the channel in mid sentence during a movie, or in case of the cd player in vehicle, a song. THATS TOO FREAKING ANNOYING! FLIP! FLIP! FLIP! FLIP! Hi this is WCP...static...static...OH BABY!!...static..static..fuzz..Yesterday I cried....static..static..fuzz...ARRGHH!!!!!!!TV...man kissing woman...FLIP! woman crying...FLIP! something blowing up...brief pause...*jenn has some hope that this will be THE ONE* FLIP! ARGGHH!!!! racy scene with no apparent dialogue...brief pause...racy scene begins to have dialogue...FLIP! HEADACHE! LUNGE FOR THE REMOTE PROMISING TO DO SOMETHING OBSCENE AND HAZARDOUS WITH IT... In the truck..with the cd player..We do this "wait til the evil enemy remote control weilder or captor leaves the area unguarded" strategy... On a trip in vehicle: Stop at gas station...make husband get out to pump the gas..when he gets out, snatch the remote, put it in pocket before going in to pay for the gas and grab a bottle of water or two. Husband gets in truck....come out and see husband searching frantically for something..(looking under seats, outside on the ground, etc)..innocently smile and ask whats wrong...Husband looks and says he can't find the remote control..evil grin from me and then he demands it back... I refuse to give it back, and happily pull it out of pocket changing it to one station (something we both like) and claim the victory for that round by holding on to it as if it were the last scrap of food on the earth. Somewhere along the way, another stop. This time, husband awaits my departure from the vehicle first with an evil grin on his face. I smile back in return, open the door, (remoted in hand), put remote in pocket, and get out giggling in the most evil female way I can.  NEVER let the enemy use your own tactics against you! Well....errr..  I think I ranted enough. LOL! And the above..most always comes out with laughter.  still d-i-s-c-o-n-n-e-c-t-e-d |
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Dusk Treader
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Senior Member
since 1999-06-18
Posts 1187St. Paul, MN |
I'm a control freak, I admit! Get me a 12 step program... But I hate TV, so it's not the remote. Don't let me "show" you how to do something though... Especially on the computer... *sigh* I can usually see what's under my nose... just not when my head's surrounded by storm clouds... "They that start by burning books will end by burning men." -- Heinrich Heine |
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Poet deVine
Administrator
Member Seraphic
since 1999-05-26
Posts 22612Hurricane Alley |
So who else will honestly tell me they are a control freak? |
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Jamie Member Elite
since 2000-06-26
Posts 3168Blue Heaven |
I am not a control freak. You will not find me confessing before some group of 12 stepping, recovering controlaholics. I repeat, I am not a control freak. I will let others drive, (until they prove themselves undeserving) I don't have to push the cart in the grocery store(unless you don't do it right). Please, someone else pick where we will eat. (just don't try to tell me what to eat) Movie? Your choice.( I have veto power of course) The remote? You may as well go ahead and call the NRA (...when they pry it from my cold dead hand - etc...) It is an extension of my body, custom formed to fit the contours of my palm, the numbers inlaid in genuine 14k gold. The only thing it shares with control is it's last name, which in my case was changed to protect the guilty. My remote is now known simply as "the hand". Control freak? No Lord, not me. But,,, The remote is mine. ps. K .. it was more a spirited debate than a heated discussion. ( Don't you think?....heh)There is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar. |
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Michael
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Member Rara Avis
since 1999-08-13
Posts 7666California |
Hmmm... This post confuses me - The only thing right under my nose is the remote...LOL click click click... Michael |
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Dopey Dope
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Member Patricius
since 2000-08-30
Posts 11132San Juan, Puerto Rico |
I have posted two replies to this same thread and both have not come up! What's up with that?! |
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Severn Member Rara Avis
since 1999-07-17
Posts 7704 |
Well...I'm not AS much of a control freak as I USED to be...I have chilled out somewhat...but er...I can be well...strident in stating what I want. I have and am learning the art of compromise. Something SOMEONE will have to also do, in regards to 'the hand' in a few months time...won't he. I concede (see? Compromise at work...) A spirited debate it was  heh heh KP.S - what exactly is the 'right' way to push a shopping trolley J? [This message has been edited by Severn (edited 05-30-2001).] |
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brian madden Member Elite
since 2000-05-06
Posts 4374ireland |
men.... control freaks a bit of a generalisation. surely two like minded souls who are in love can come to a compromise about a small thing like a remote or could it be that I don't know the first thing about how relationships really work. "you are what you own in this land, you can be king and it all depends on the view and what you can see" Whipping boy |
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Acies
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Member Rara Avis
since 2000-06-07
Posts 7665Twilight Zone |
Sharon --- You mean boogers are the best thing that happened to men Q: Why do we take control of the remote? A: Cause we know whats good to watch I'm so sorry for doubting you Kit ... please forgive me!!!! |
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Sven
since 1999-11-23
Posts 14937East Lansing, MI USA |
I was waiting for someone to say that this was a generalization. . . Um. . . well. . . I really don't have to have control of the remote. . . and what is control anyway? And as to your other question. . . well, I could turn that on you as well. . . but, I'm not going to. . . I'll just say that I'm sure that some men know when they have the best thing that's happened to them right under their nose. . .  ------------------------------------------------------------------ To the world, you may only be one person. But to one person, you may be the world. |
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Dopey Dope
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Member Patricius
since 2000-08-30
Posts 11132San Juan, Puerto Rico |
We're just men.....oh well |
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Acies
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Member Rara Avis
since 2000-06-07
Posts 7665Twilight Zone |
We're here to make your life interesting I'm so sorry for doubting you Kit ... please forgive me!!!! |
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bslicker
since 2000-12-04
Posts 2321state of mind |
1st question We do that? 2nd question And right under my nose is my mustache. Opps I mean the best things right under my nose is my wife, but i just seem to forget that sometimes... A smile a day keeps the world in smile's. |
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Jamie Member Elite
since 2000-06-26
Posts 3168Blue Heaven |
Don't leave the shopping cart (trolley) unattended in a place where it will obstruct the passage of others. Don't stop beside other shoppers and chat. The cart is not an all seeing babysitter, and it can not protect your child in your absence. A pusherless cart in the checkout line does not guarantee your place in the line. just a few i thought i would mention for now...heh There is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar. |
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Severn Member Rara Avis
since 1999-07-17
Posts 7704 |
So this is what happens to you if you become a fireman heh |
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Jamie Member Elite
since 2000-06-26
Posts 3168Blue Heaven |
Well--only if you are fortunate...heh There is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar. |
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Severn Member Rara Avis
since 1999-07-17
Posts 7704 |
OH? And what if you're not then...? K |
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Moon Dust
since 1999-06-11
Posts 2177Skelmersdale, UK |
See this is why I dont let a fella within 10ft of my remote. ITS MINE. Don't ever give in, if you do you've lost everything you've ever had and everything you hope to gain, but if you carry on your already winning. |
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Acies
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Member Rara Avis
since 2000-06-07
Posts 7665Twilight Zone |
Us guys don't like the stock remote anyways. We want the all in one universal super duper remote. hi Sweets, Lizzy, Ina, Erin, Erica, Minna, Kit, Kamie, Javi, Jenn, Sharon, Nan, Cawlee, Cherish, Val, Sara, Justine, Leah, Jess, Kimmie, Maree, Michel |
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StarrGazer Senior Member
since 2000-03-05
Posts 679Texas |
hehe I'm definitely a control freak ... theres two ways two do things my way and the wrong way lol but as far as TV goes ... you can have it... to me the most annoying thing is someone reading over my shoulder ugghhhhh cant stand that !! |
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sans38 Member
since 2001-03-03
Posts 117Westland, Michigan |
I'm sitting here giggling over this remote control thing. My husband is a remote control freak lol. The one that really gets me the most is the one for the stereo in our bedroom. The stereo is located within arms reach of his side of the bed....can anyone tell me why on earth he needs a remote control for it?? |
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White Wolf Member
since 1999-09-18
Posts 371Somewhere in the vast wasteland |
Me? I don't like to control. I let things happen. It is better that way. But when there is a need for control I will step up to the role. Like two children fighting over the remote, the remote becomes mine and I have the control. Plus if I tried to control anything all of the time I am bound to make a mistake that I will reget. The White Wolf PS Control is just an illusion anyway. If life is just a game, when does it end cause I want to get to what is real. |
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catalinamoon
since 2000-06-03
Posts 9543The Shores of Alone |
Oh boy, I found another fun place to hang out! The remote thing is I swear a male problem. Yes I say problem, because it can take a perfectly good natured woman and make her scream STOP IT before I BREAK IT. CAN WE PLEASE WAIT LONG ENOUGH TO SEE WHAT IT WAS??? Question two is one I shall forever ponder, with no answer, I fear. |
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Alyssa
since 2001-05-30
Posts 385IM ENGAGED!!!!! |
Why even ask the age old question?Men are men all our problems sart with MEN menstraul cramps, menopause, mental anxiety, menthol ciggarettes (dont ask) men are just put here to annoy us like the gooey jelly on the side of the jelly jar kids always forget to wipe off.... "lifes tough, get a helmet" [This message has been edited by Alyssa (edited 06-10-2001).] |
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Dark Angel Member Patricius
since 1999-08-04
Posts 10095 |
LOL! |
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Opeth Senior Member
since 2001-12-13
Posts 1543The Ravines |
"Why is it that they think they have to control everything?" ~ My wife has complete control over my finances. I wouldn't have it any other way. "I mean take the remote for instance....why is it that guys think they MUST flip from channel to channel to channel to channel in an endless search for something better???" ~ lol...this is sooo true. If my wife could work the damn thing, I'd give it to her "And that's another thing...why is it that some men don't see that the BEST thing that ever happened to them is RIGHT there under their nose????" ~ Because they are always looking somewhere else. In general, men need blinders, like horses wear. |
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Local Rebel Member Ascendant
since 1999-12-21
Posts 5767Southern Abstentia |
I haven't the remotest interest in controlling this thread. |
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cherish Senior Member
since 2001-03-25
Posts 1639swimming in fairy floss........... |
..uh....funny... Congratulations! It's a bisexual! |
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KristieSue
since 2003-01-31
Posts 1460PA, US |
My mother and father both have a remote control. They flip the channel on each other and then argue about THAT. My current "friend" is a flipper, but the remote broke. Unless he is already up, I now get the honors of getting MY butt up off the chair and changing the channel ROFL want the choice of channel?? break the remote!!! LOL |
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Toerag Member Ascendant
since 1999-07-29
Posts 5622Ala bam a |
Yea, I know what ya mean....most of the time when I can't find the remote..it's right there under my nose!! |
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Ratleader
since 2003-01-23
Posts 7026Visiting Earth on a Guest Pass |
"Why is it that they think they have to control everything?" They don't -- but like Don Quixote, they think they have to try! "I mean take the remote for instance....why is it that guys think they MUST flip from channel to channel to channel to channel in an endless search for something better??? " It's a surrogate, which is why women always focus on it too..... (I sense a Poetry Challenge here, but I can't quite work out how to phrase it....) An endless search for something better? Why that's built into our genes, not to mention our jeans, which takes us back to that surrogate thing, doesn't it? "And that's another thing...why is it that some men don't see that the BEST thing that ever happened to them is RIGHT there under their nose????" Well, maybe.... but I shaved it off at my wife's request...... ~~(¸¸¸¸ºº> ~~(¸¸¸¸ºº> ~~(¸¸ ¸¸ºº> ~~~(¸¸ER¸¸ºº> |
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JP Senior Member
since 1999-05-25
Posts 1343Loomis, CA |
I don't know PdV, I'm going to have to kinda disagree with you on this one... My wife cannot sit through 30 seconds of commercials for anything, our biggest fights come from her demands for control of the remote control and her inability to leave the blasted TV on one station for any measurable length of time. I'M THE MAN, I SHOULD HOLD THE REMOTE! (why do you think it is shaped the way it is to begin with?) Yesterday is ash, tomorrow is smoke; only today does the fire burn. |
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Tim Senior Member
since 1999-06-08
Posts 1794 |
I have no idea why my wife bought me a monogrammed remote for Christmas. By the way, I can get through all 78 channels we receive during the average commercial break. I am still working on the use of two remotes simultaneously to speed up the process. Heck, my goal is to get through the channels so quick I hear John Wayne say, "Pil," watch a bit of the Beave and get back in time to hear the Duke say "grim." |
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Ron
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Member Rara Avis
since 1999-05-19
Posts 8669Michigan, US |
You know you're getting old, I think, when every day gives rise to a new definition of what it is to get old. For example, at my age, I think I have more respect for the remote control than what I'm sensing in this thread. Why? Because when I was growing up, I was the remote. |
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Irie Senior Member
since 1999-12-01
Posts 1493Washington State |
I let my husband think he is control. He wears the pants in the family ......... I just tell him which ones to wear! And I hear ya' with the remote! GRRRRR ~Sheri |
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Sunshine
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Member Empyrean
since 1999-06-25
Posts 63354Listening to every heart |
"I was the remote"... you, too? |
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skyshine
since 2002-02-07
Posts 3058Beneath the northern stars |
I'm a control freak! I admit it! No, really, I am.  ~Liz Waited on a line of greens and blues, just to be the next to be with you.. |
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IcyFlamez89 Member
since 2003-02-14
Posts 292Jersey City NJ |
Ya noe if sumone else got the remote, just do wat i do. I tape or block the receptor on the tv, that lil blak box. So no matter how many times he pushes dem buttons, it aint changin till his laziness goess off for a while and walks up to the tv. Wanna noe sumthin funny? My friend was so used to the remote that he never knew of the buttons on the tv till the remote batteries died out...are we getin lazier or what?! [This message has been edited by IcyFlamez89 (04-10-2003 09:51 PM).] |
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Magicmystery Senior Member
since 2002-02-13
Posts 821Windsor, Ontario, Canada |
LMAO @Temptress... I got ya hon!!!! Control freaks come in all shapes and sizes and I am as guilty as the rest... and I am 100% woman!!! and by the way.... my husband is soooo way not a control everything freak... it wouldn't help him to be.... I work with a couple though.... It just proves my theory that you don't have to be intelligent to be well paid. Most of these jerks make twice as much as me, work less, order just about anything that wears a skirt around just like they where their personal servants. Being who I am makes life interesting for them... II can be most subtle at making them look like the single celled boobs that they are.... but most often, I don't... I have had to tell this one (who isn't in charge of anything including his own ego) to take his feet off my desk, or chew with his mouth closed....(kind of reminds me of Gaston in Beauty and the Beast) LOL My real pet peeve is the frustration in knowing that there are some people out there too stupid to actually realize that they are stupid and what really steams me up is that they are the ones who make the most. AAARRRRRRGGGGG!!!!! There, I've vented.... That's probably why I become the control freak at home. |
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Bill Charles Member Patricius
since 2000-07-11
Posts 10619highways, & byways, for now |
Poet deVine - I felt compelled to reply to this one after I read it. 'Why is it that they think they have to control everything?' Perhaps they are not in control of themselves, and they find it in trying to control everything... 'I mean take the remote for instance....why is it that guys think they MUST flip from channel to channel to channel to channel in an endless search for something better???' There's one of those control things. I would rather engage in conversation, read a poem, play someone a song than flipping the channels, and I'll watch what you would like. But I'm not a passive person, just a little perhaps, smile... 'And that's another thing...why is it that some men don't see that the BEST thing that ever happened to them is RIGHT there under their nose????' I'm glad that you said some men, as this one appreciates, if you know what I mean... 'sigh.........this vent will self-destruct in 5 seconds............ ..............' please don't let this vent destruct in 5 seconds, I would have never read it if it did... BC |
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littlewing Member Rara Avis
since 2003-03-02
Posts 9655New York |
Sharon - in answer to your original question: hehehe I am the one with the remote control ahahahahahahahah . . . . . . As for men/women not seeing what is right beneath their noses: I chalk that up to it just not being the right person or the right time. You will know when that one sees into your soul - beneath the layers - into you - and not at you - you know why? because the both of you will be happy. simple as that |
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