Why Women are Indispensable

If all women suddenly vanished from the earth, the world would fall apart. Other than the obvious re population issues, men would never be able to find anything!

Women, raise your hand if you have had this conversation with your husband (or your son):

Man: "Honey, I can't find any clean socks."

Woman: "Did you look in your sock drawer?"

Man: "No." (pause) "Which one is my sock drawer?"

Woman: "Second drawer from the top." (small sigh) "Same drawer that your socks have always been kept in as long as we've been married."

(pause) Man: "I don't see any."

Woman: (larger sigh) "Hang on, I'll come look."

Now, one of 2 possibilities occurs here. Either the woman goes and looks in the drawer, and finds the socks (which are sitting in plain sight) in 3 seconds, or (and this occurs rarely, but it is a possibility) there are no clean socks in the drawer, in which case the conversation continues as follows:

Woman: "Oh, I'm sorry, honey. I haven't gotten the socks put away yet. They are in the laundry basket."

Man: "Where is the laundry basket?"

Woman: "Sitting on the bed."

Long pause. "Honey, I don't see any socks."

Woman: "I just did a load of whites yesterday. They are there, I promise."

Man: "I still don't see them."

Woman (suppressing desire to throw something): "I'll come look..." 10 seconds later, in a slightly-less-than-loving-tone: "Here are your socks!"

You can substitute almost any object for "clean socks" and still have the same result. Now, I am not trying to disrespect my husband or say men are not smart. In many many ways, my husband is much smarter than me. (technology, anyone?) But when it comes to finding things, I'm not sure why it is, but all men seem to have this inborn, inescapable inability to locate the simplest objects!

Drives us crazy? Yes. Can we do anything about it? No. I suppose we should just consider it job security! ;-)