Don't you dare give me one Smartie at a time

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MyLot member Nitin Pednekar @nitirrbb7 has inspired this post. You can get the background story here if you’re interested: http://www.mylot.com/post/3107750/always-carry-a-basic-mobile-with-your-smartphone. For some reason, Nitin’s post prompted memories of the time my husband and I read the Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus. I really only remember three things from the book. One is something about men and their man-cave to which they sometimes retreat Another is how women and men give each other ‘points’ when their spouse does something nice for them. Apparently, women give points for good behaviours and favours done but if something goes wrong, the points all get deducted in one fell swoop. And the third point is that gifts for a woman don’t have to be huge. Men will get just as many points for a single rose as for a bunch of roses. This fact has worked very much against me. I would often get a block of chocolate as a gift and it was very much appreciated. Once Vince read the book I stopped getting a block of chocolate and instead would be given a Freddo Frog. Are you familiar with them? They aren’t big at all – barely a mouthful of chocolate. Luckily Vince didn’t take any notice of the check-out lady who asked why he didn’t buy a box of Smarties and just dole them out one at a time. He would have lost all his points if he had done that!