A window on the male mind

Recently I had a friend stay for a couple of days. He's perhaps not your average PhD in statistics, and while that might come in handy for me occasionally, that's by the by. A few years ago he married the love of his life, then promptly watched her die a slow and painful death, which actually wouldn't have been so bad if her parents' contribution to the grieving process had been a little more sensitive than the immediate presentation of a fabricated Will. But that's by the by too. Well, it is now, anyway. He hopes to recover his health by the end of the year.

Slowly he's getting himself to the point where he'd like to find a date, so while he was here I took him to an online candy shop dating site. I did a search for what he was looking for and was quite amazed by what came back (but I guess I've always known that not wanting children isn't a great marketing strategy with women). He was even more amazed and I hardly heard a word out of him for the next hour. But I did hear the following:

"She looks like she has some depth!"

"Oh no, her eyes are too close together."

I wish him luck.

They should know

I've now been assured by two women that a man a woman fall in love just by spending lots of time together over a long period of time. These two women had something in common, too. They had been married a very long time, and weren't in love.