My wife is an exceptional woman, a loving and devoted wife and mother, as well as a successful corporate lawyer. When she's not busy working on M&A deals, helping take care of the home and family or reading Tolstoy, she somehow finds the time to contemplate life's interesting issues. Here are some of the topics that currently occupy her thoughts (not necessarily in this order):
* Women who have lots of children
* Women who have children at an advanced age
* Women who are pregnant with multiple babies (the more the better)
* Fat people
* Joaquin Phoenix
* Women who spend too much time in the sun, and end up with faces that look like old boots
* Women who have plastic surgery
* Women who are younger than she is, but look older than she does
* Women who are older than she is, but look younger than she does [she doesn't know of any yet]
* Women who marry much younger men
* Woody Allen and Soon-Yi
* The shortcomings of my former girlfriends
* The Oscars
* Women who kill their own children
* Dogs that kill their owners' children
* Dogs that kill their neighbors' children
* Very large babies
* Gas-hogging SUVs
* Children who die because grown-ups leave them in locked cars with the windows rolled up
* What will happen to the family if she dies in a car crash
* What will happen to the family if she dies in a plane crash
* Couples that stay married for decades, which is what she and I will be :)
All one can say about your very nice wife is that like most women she focuses a lot on other women and how they live. Guys? sports, beer, babes.
Posted by: fred lapides on July 26, 2002 05:15 AMA friend of mine, the "Lazy Bastard" found out why your wife thinks about so many topics. Check it out at:
http://lazybastard.ehuna.org/archives/000044.html
Cheers,
David Melle
dmelle@factsofisrael.com
http://www.FactsOfIsrael.com
The increased frequency of parents leaving small children in cars on hot days can be traced, I think, to passenger side airbags and the requirement that children in car seats be placed in rear seats. If passenger side air bags could be turned off or if they had a safety switch that shut them off unless the seat had a 100 pound weight (even small stature adults are at risk from airbags) pressing down on it, kids could be safely carried in the front seat. One more unanticipated outcome from the zero defects society. Your wife is right to be concerned that one day she could forget the child in the back seat asleep.
Posted by: Michael Kennedy on May 23, 2003 10:07 AM