125) A Problem With Guys - Vol 1

I know guys are annoying and dumb, and that this poses many problems throughout the world.  However, I stumbled upon another problem today I would like to explore.

A problem with guys is:  they don't get excited about much.

Today a vendor we work with had Babe's Chicken Dinner House catered to the office.  The girls in the office went NUTS!  They danced and skipped around.  They woke up early and ran a little extra so they could enjoy more greasy calories.  They counted down the minutes to lunch time starting around 9:15 am.   And when the woman walked in with the food, they cheered.  No kidding.  They CHEERED!  Their reactions made me so curious about the food because seriously, who cheers over fried chicken, corn, mashed potatoes and lettuce.

The women in the office described each entree using the word "crack".  They would say, "don't forget to get your lettuce laced with crack" or "you should get 2 helpings of crack corn".  They all agreed that the biscuits were made with flour, butter and crack, because no matter what you will come back NEEDING more.

I tried everything and must say that the corn was pretty good.  Tasted like corn with a lot of butter in it. The chicken tasted like fried chicken.  The mashed potatoes tasted like mashed potatoes with a lot of butter in them.  The lettuce salad tasted like lettuce with not enough vinegar and oil.  The biscuits tasted like biscuits cooked with a lot of butter in them.  I guess my point is, the food was ok, but it was like eating at pretty much any other fried chicken place.  Nothing to get excited about.

And that is when it hit me.  Maybe it was worth getting excited about.  The other three dudes in the office filled their plates and answered the emphatic cheers much like I did.  They nodded, smiled and answered politely, "This is good chicken and stuff..."  Perhaps we are incapable of getting excited.  Perhaps we're boring.  Perhaps we have not learned the important lesson that life is about enjoying the little things.

I reflected on this while watching all the women in our office have so much fun eating the fried chicken.  I thought about all the things I've seen girls get excited about recently:

• Getting gelato after dinner
• Ke$ha playing in Dallas
• Tiff's Treats
• Something coming in the mail.  She was not even sure what it was, but was excited until she opened it and realized it was an industrial set of toe nail clippers and guitar wall mounts
• Trublood and Dexter Sunday (Sadly, I did get a little excited about this as well)
• When one of our flowers blooms in the garden
• Ordering dessert at a restaurant
• The day office supplies are delivered
• Packages of flavored sunflower seeds
• Getting to hang out with Hadley (This one get's me excited too)
• Ordering a shake from Jack in the Box
• Knowing that she can spend an entire day in pajamas
• Breakfast tacos being brought in to the office, doesn't matter from where
• Stopping at Buc-ees for weird stuff on the way to client meetings in Austin/Waco/Houston/San Antonio
• Buying a 300th pair of shoes
• Receiving another trinket (could be wiener dog shaped, but could also be something else like a rabbit, owl, frog, noah's ark... depends on the specific girl we are talking about.

I notice how simple things, things we could choose to do anytime we want can make the girls I interact with daily so excited.  And I don't feel like I see guys getting excited like this on a daily, weekly, or even a monthly basis.  I think guys are missing something here.  

I'll end with words of wisdom brought to us by Augustus McCrae who said, "The only healthy way to live life is to learn to like all the little everyday things like, a sip of good whiskey in the evening, a soft bed, a glass of buttermilk, or a feisty gentleman like myself."