Chick Flicks

The bane of man’s existence, chick flicks have been tormenting half of Earth’s population ever since the first moving pictures.

Even though nerds are known to be soft-hearted, that doesn’t mean we will watch sappy lovesick movies with a tear in our eye and a smile on our face like some drooling fool.  Maybe we take it with a little more grace than others, but we’re still thinking, “Dear God, WHY?!”

Part of losing one’s nerdiness is to overcome the act of watching life go by and to become a more active participant.  After all, life is no spectator’s sport.  (That’s another part of losing nerdiness; using sports analogies.)

My wife, like so many wives, looooves to torment me with mush-movies.  I used to watch those instruments of the Devil without complaint, but now when I hear the mere mention of a chick flick, my Pavlovian reaction is a rolling of the eyes so fast I can see my brain.

Ladies, a good rule of thumb when picking out a movie to see with your boyfriend or hubby is that drama = trauma.  The more dramatic the movie the more traumatic the experience.  So don’t go picking out movies like, “The Notebook”.  Guys hate to tear up and it’s even worse when one actually leaks out.  Besides, we don’t want to learn about some man spending his last years of life gallantly trying to preserve his wife’s failing memories of their love only to mentally lose her again and again and end up dying together in the same bed.  IT’S JUST WRONG!!!

Yet I would take, “The Notebook” any day over that which my wife brought out one dismal day.

It was…it was…see for yourself.

 Me ---->

I could feel the testosterone drain from my body.  I rolled my eyes so fast I could have been a slot machine.  How long would this torture last?  The minutes were printed on the backs of each case.  There is a total of 1,759 minutes of agony.  30 HOURS!  This is it, this is the thing that’s going to kill me…or make me a vegetable.

To date, I’ve only completed 10 hours.

Let's be perfectly honest here, they're not AS bad as I thought they would be.  They have their funny parts and tid-bits of useful information.  Plus, Erin and I have a good compromise going.  I watch chick flicks and she watches man movies like "300", "Hot Tub Time Machine", and "The Last Samurai" to name a few.

It's a good way to broaden each other's horizons.