from a book

Ahoy,

This is the epitome of mine and the RRS's relationship. It is everything. As excerpted from page 188 of Mindy Kaling's Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? 

"Why do all men I know put their shoes on incredibly slowly? When I tie my shoelaces I can do it standing, and I'm out the door in about ten seconds. (Or, more often, I don't even tie my shoelaces. I slip my feet into my sneakers and tighten the laces in the car.) But with men, if they are putting on any kind of shoe (sneaker, Vans, dress shoe), it will take twenty times as long as when a woman does it. It has come to the point where if I know I'm leaving a house with a man, I can factor in a bathroom visit or a phone call or both, and when I'm done, he'll almost be done tying his shoes.

There's a certain meticulousness that I notice with all guys when they put their shoes on. First of all, they sit down. I mean, they need to sit down to do it. Right there, it signals, "I'm going to be here for a while. Let's get settled in." I can put on a pair of hiking boots that have not even been laced yet while talking on my cell phone, without even leaning on a wall.

I don't have any real problems with it, except when you've done a whole snappy/sexy exit conversation with a guy leaving your place and then he tacks on an extra eight minutes as he puts on his shoes."

As I was reading this, it was like every line was extracted from my brain. If you can imagine - my jumping ecstatically and cheering "YES YES YES!" or "I KNOW!" a la Monica Gellar of Friends. Mindy Kaling is genius. And reading this book has changed my opinion of her.

nonfictiously bred,
jt