Getting Dressed

Written By:  Andrew Eide

Women have the ability to take twice as long to get dressed as a man.  They use the excuse it takes them longer because of ensuring their hair and makeup are proper, but the real reason is they change their mind several times on what to wear.

The woman will stand in front of her closet, for long periods of time, trying to decide what to wear.  She will give the excuse she has nothing to wear when, in reality, she has too many choices to make.

The man insists the woman pick something out so they will not be late for their appointment. The woman gets annoyed at his suggestion to pick something out.  She forgets that she always offers suggestions to him on what to wear.

The other scenario is that the woman gets quickly dressed and she looks great.  To the man’s amazement she is an hour ahead of time too!  The man goes into the other room to gloat and smile and sing praises that his woman finally got ready on time!  Twenty minutes later he begins to wonder where she is.  When he goes to the bedroom the woman is now wearing another set of clothes and there are an additional two sets of rejected clothes sitting on the bed.  He asks, “I thought you were already dressed, why did you change?” to which the woman states, “I didn’t like what I was wearing.”

The man goes into the other room grumbling about being late again. After 15 minutes pass the man checks on the woman again.  She has now changed into another set of clothes and there are a few additional rejects on the bed.  The man walks away shaking his head mumbling to himself.

After an hour elapses the man gets up and again goes into the bedroom to check on his wife. They are already late for their appointment so he isn’t in a rush this time. Guess what?  She is now dressed in the same outfit she had on in the first place!  She says she decided to wear that outfit anyway!  Why didn’t she just stay in that outfit in the first place?

Then the woman tries to get the man to change his clothes into something else.  This is a defensive reaction with women.  They feel guilty that they change clothes so often and cannot make a decision that they want everyone else around them to do the same thing so their guilt is lessened.  No way! Men are not falling for that one!