What do you think?

I just finished watching an episode from British series "Coupling". The episode revolved about the misery of a poor guy whose fiancée asked him for his opinion about which furniture to buy. The poor guy spent the entire week (of course he was extremely lucky to get a week) relentlessly trying to form his opinion about the few selections his fiancée had already made. But all he could do in a week is to form just one opinion about the furniture: men can’t have an opinion about sofas, cushions, curtains or ladies’ dresses.

This question “What do you think?” is not going to bother you only when you are buying furniture for your house. This is like one ubiquitous question when you are into a relationship. Fellas you know this situation.You and your partner are out for shopping. She is all lost into pool of dresses while you are wondering “Gosh I wish I could watch this football match at a pub with my friends. What would be the score by now? Its 30 minutes into the game. May be Manchester United is leading 1-0”

Just then the question comes and shakes your conscious into life. After a couple of hours of filtering & screening, two lucky garments made it to the final list just to get you into more trouble. “Which one is better?” Of course you have absolutely no clue which one to chose? You try to be politically smart by saying “Honey you look gorgeous in both of these. Why don’t you buy both??” What the hell!!! You just burnt a big hole in your pocket.

You just made the blunder of not carefully selecting your words. What if you say something like this “Honey I think this one would look much better on a slimmer figure”. You are screwed up big time.

Even if you are lucky one to give your opinion over just one dress, she will make it tough for you by maneuvering her tone in such way which suggests she think that designer designed this dress with me only in his mind. You simply can’t say that this dress is not pretty.

And by the way do you think that your opinion matters? Is she going to change her preference if you suggest that none of this is a good buy? You realize your mistake instantaneously and try to appease her by choosing the third one which in all probability will make you shell out even more bucks.

Moral of the story: Chose your words carefully before you pass on your judgment. Take your time to make your all your calculations. Oh by the way make sure the pause doesn’t seem to be eternal one. You have to be fast..really fast.