and I will tell you why.<\/p>\n
(Although I know people get really touchy about “blanket statements” of any kind … There are always exceptions to every rule – I myself am an exception to many ‘this is what women are like’ rules – but still. I certainly can appreciate a moment like the one I am about to tell)<\/p>\n
Someone had a birthday party at work, and there are balloons floating about on the floor. One wandered into our area. 4 of us work back here, 2 of us are women, and 2 are men. Everyone is very cool, I like them all.<\/p>\n
The female co-worker and I started batting the balloon back and forth, as though we were at a volleyball game. It was all rather desultory, the two of us bored, talking to each other about other things, as we batted it back and forth.<\/p>\n
Then the two guys got involved, and within literally THREE SECONDS, an entire game, with a complicated rule system emerged. A point-system blossomed forth, and disqualifications were discussed – all of this seemed to happen immediatley, like flowers opening up on speeded-up film. The game just MANIFESTED.<\/p>\n
“Okay. So you have to stay seated in your chair. No standing. We have to kick the balloon back and forth.”<\/p>\n
“Yeah! Cool! And it’s 2 points if you land it right on top of that plant.”<\/p>\n
“And it’s 5 points if it goes all the way across the table.”<\/p>\n
“And you win the game if it lands on something sharp and it pops…”<\/p>\n
“Yeah, cool! Okay – go!”<\/p>\n
A structure was zip-zip-zip created, and then we were all off to the races.<\/p>\n
We began to play this suddenly-created game with ferocity, kicking the balloon around, screaming out, “2 points!”, “5 points!”<\/p>\n
That alone is evidence of why I think men are so great. Please, women, I know that we create things, too, but I’m talking about basic Darwinian playground behavior here, and it was when the boys <\/b>leapt into the fray that RULES appeared. My female co-worker and I would NEVER have just feverishly created rules and scoring and foul zones. It took the BOYS to come in and do that. And it was so funny, because we all immediately accepted the rules, no question.<\/p>\n
“Oh, of course. 2 points if you get it there. Sure.”<\/p>\n
Once the game died down, I commented, “I absolutely love it that when the BOYS got involved, an entire scoring system was created from nothing.”<\/p>\n
We all just started laughing!<\/p>\n
Playground behavior. Live from New York.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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