All Tuned Out

It must be true that men are programmed to tune out the women in their lives. The four guys in my home seem to have mastered this ability to zone off into another world when I need their attention.

If I take a minute to think about it, I bet that I can come up with some of their best tuning-out methods. Let's pretend to go inside those male heads and guess what they may be saying to themselves when I make a request or bring up a conversation topic.

• "If I nod my head a couple of times and raise my eyebrows, she may think that I get what she's saying."
  
  
• "I'll pretend to sleep."
  
  
• "I better look like I'm at an intense stage of my video game. Maybe she'll think that I'm concentrating on winning a level or something."
  
  
• "If I say what? a lot of times, she'll probably get one of my brothers to do it."
  
  
• "Honey, I need to go to the bathroom."
  
  
• "Just keep turning up the volume on the TV."
  
  
• "Maybe I should tell Mom that Jillian is calling her."
  
  
• "I could pretend that Mom is speaking Portuguese. I think that's what Dad does."

Happy Wednesday everyone!