What Did She Just Say? (standard:humor, 909 words)
Author: Godspenman	Added: Jan 23 2022	Views/Reads: 895/543	Story vote: 0.00 (0 votes)
For me, the basis of unity is listening and hearing what the other person is saying. But, as hard as it might be, it's an essential part of unity in any relationship.

To be honest, I don't always hear what I'm supposed to hear. I do have
ears, but sometimes they are not working in such a way as to benefit 
me. 

Often, The Gracious Mistress of the Parsonage will talk to me about
something, and then at the end of that, she will ask me a question of 
which I have no idea what the answer would be. I did hear her talking; 
I just did not hear what she was saying. 

That's why I say, "Yes, dear," to knock her off her game, thinking that
I heard what she said. 

Often, when I come home, as soon as I come through the door, she will
say, "Did you stop and get what I told you to get at the grocery 
store?" 

Now I'm in a situation where I have to explain why I didn't stop and get
what she wanted me to get. I cannot let her know that I did not hear 
her say that nor that I did not remember what she said. So that, as you 
well know, gets me into some very serious problems, problems that I 
certainly do not want to deal with on any day of the week. 

I must confess that when anybody, not just my wife, is talking to me,
I'm not 100% on target. So I can get the gist of what you're saying but 
I'm thinking of something else or, I'm thinking of the answer I'm going 
to give as soon as you stop talking. 

However, with the wife, it is an entirely different situation. 

Not only do I need to hear what she is saying, but I also need to
understand what she is saying. That is perhaps the most challenging 
aspect of listening. I can hear, but I don't always understand what I 
am hearing. 

It's not that I am mentally challenged, but I just don't go through the
proper thought process to the point of understanding. And when a wife 
is talking to her husband, that thought process is greatly challenged, 
if you know what I mean? 

Frequently she will say, "Are you paying attention to me?" 

One time, and only once, I said, "I'm too poor to pay attention." 

That didn't get me very far in that situation. I think of it many times,
but I don't speak it. 

Paying attention is very expensive in many regards, but not paying
attention is much more costly. 

I've been trying to save up some money recently so I can afford to pay
attention to more things she is saying. 

I've researched this and discovered why I have this problem. According
to my research, the average woman speaks 20,000 words a day while the 
average man only speaks 7000 words a day. I'm not sure where they come 
up with those figures but I think it's pretty close to the real thing. 

I know the Gracious Mistress of the Parsonage speaks more than 20,000
words a day, but I can only handle 7000 words. That means two-thirds of 
what she says I do not hear, which explains why I get in trouble most 
of the time. 

There has to be a way in which she can come down with her speaking, and
I can come up with my hearing. I'm not quite sure how this would work, 
but I'm thinking about it. 

In my thinking about this, I thought maybe it would be a good idea if
the politicians would pass a law limiting how many words a person can 
speak each day. Then, as I was thinking about this, politicians say ten 
times more words than anybody in the world. So there is no way they 
would do anything to curb the speaking in our country. 

The only qualification for politicians is that they can speak faster
than they can think. But, of course, the big challenge would be to find 
a politician who can actually think. 


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