Girls Night Out

Let me spend a few moments on the recent phenomenon of Girls Night Out. Let me first say that I just don't get it. Why do woman have to have a Girls Night Out? It's odd. Usually when the women in my life want to go out together all their men call me and all of sudden want to do the same thing but with us men!

This is where it gets me thinking it's weird. The women get all dressed up. They cake on the make-up and show off more cleavage than I get to see in a month. I never see these women get made up when we all go out as couples! I'm told that it's because there is a friendly competition between the women to see who can look the hottest.....but wait a minute....doesn't that sound like if I believe this statement I'm being the most naive loser on the planet?

"Oh honey, I'm just getting dressed up because I want to look good for my girlfriends."

Even when I write it, I'm not buying it.

Let me put it to you this way. When their men and I get together for our complement to Girls Night Out, we generally have jeans, flannel shirts and ball caps on our heads. We'd have to be in an alley to be competing for who looks better on this nite!

Don't get me wrong. I guess I realize the reasoning behind women wanting to get together without their men. They can talk about their men or for that matter, talk about things their men just don't want to hear them talk about. I'm okay with it. I just wish deep down inside me that they didn't have to look so good when they did it.
I'd be perfectly fine if they all wore jeans, flannel shirts and baseball caps.

After much deliberation about this....I know you're amazed that I could spend an inordinate amount of time thinking about a topic such as this and analyzing the life out of it until I have come up with some sort of rationalization or realization that suffices my ego or just my well being but such is me.....I have come to the conclusion..........I just don't like that it has a name!

I can't stand that it's called Girls Night Out. I don't really care what goes on during this evening. Quite frankly I don't think I want to know. Usually no one tells me what happens on these nites because they don't want me to know anyway. I get it. But the fact it gets a label really bugs me. It's almost a slam against me and all that is manly. When I go out with my friends we don't label it. We didn't call it, Opening Day of Baseball Out With The Guys Day Out! But when the women get together they verbally slap us men in the face by calling it, Girls Night Out.

It's almost like this....if they happened to walk in a bar that we were patronizing, they wouldn't allow themselves to talk to us! I can hear it now, "Remember ladies, this is Girls Night Out."

After all the years I've been married I understand the importance of getting out without each other. I realize the benefits it has in the long run of a relationship. No two people can spend all their time together....that would just be nuts and I don't think it would work. I know my relationship is better when we have time to ourselves and our friends without our children let alone each other!

I'll just chalk it up to another of the many things I just don't get about women. Lord knows, growing up with three older sisters and being married this long(yes there may be a correlation there but that is for another blog) my list is getting as long as Santa Claus'!

I hope all my female friends have a safe and happy Girls Night Out this Saturday.

One more thing...."Honey, if you're reading this could you line up a sitter for Saturday nite?"