Let’s face it, as much as I may try to deny it and there are rumors to support my denial, I’m a man.

The other day on the radio they were talking about how stores hire “secret shoppers”.  These employees of the store go out onto the floor without a name tag and pretend to be shoppers.  Then they walk around the store and watch the real shoppers.  When someone looks “iffy” about something, they’ll come up, handle the product the real shopper just put down or is “iffy” on and say, “Oh I just NEED this!!!” Of course… they miraculously leave it there and then it tricks you into buying it.  Apparently it is called reactionary something or another… where an item is made more desirable to you by someone else’s interest in it.

They also mentioned that in dating something similar will happen.  Such as when a guy goes into a bar with 3 hot chicks, all the other girls take notice and he is suddenly more desirable than he would have been had he shown up with 3 other guys.  As a guy, when a girl shows up with 3 other guys, usually I’ll think that she’s off the market so why bother.  Difference between men and women revealed?  Maybe.

So due to the affliction we have determined I have (being a man), by default I will never completely understand female behavior.  However, I should understand the behavior of other men, right?  So I can’t understand how a man can have a sweet and endearing woman at his basic beck and call… and yet he’ll still go out and copulate with other females who do not hold a candle to the endearing woman he already has.  At the same time, I can’t understand why such an endearing woman would feel the need to continue to play second fiddle.  Is it because he is desirable by other women?  Or is it something else… like ambient stupidity?

It’s all very confusing to me.