Ha! So true. Ping's always amazed I'm not dying like he is when he's sick. I think he's just a weakling. Miwedhel is always broken and headachey, but moves on with life. If nacirema_cult catches the sniffles, he's DYING and sprawled out on the couch- half awake.
I think one reason men melodramatize their sicknesses is because many women reward them for it. Some of you guys love an opportunity to mother us. And what man, sick or no, wouldn't occasionally like to hear, "would my puddin wuddin like another spoonful of soup?" It's like the kid who falls down and bumps himself when no parent is around, and thus doesn't bother to cry.
If you really don't want us to lie arounjd waiting for coddling, instead of that puddin wuddin thing, say, "Get up, nancy boy, and walk it off. Back in Nam I took out a frog's nest full of Charlies with an AK-47 round lodged in my aorta!" Say it loudly and unsympathetically like you're a football coach.
Guys: sorry for busting the game, but since I don't have a live-in woman to stroke my feverish forehead, the scam doesn't benefit me right now.
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You, and my mom, too.
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If you really don't want us to lie arounjd waiting for coddling, instead of that puddin wuddin thing, say, "Get up, nancy boy, and walk it off. Back in Nam I took out a frog's nest full of Charlies with an AK-47 round lodged in my aorta!" Say it loudly and unsympathetically like you're a football coach.
Guys: sorry for busting the game, but since I don't have a live-in woman to stroke my feverish forehead, the scam doesn't benefit me right now.
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