O sister, where art Thou

we've all heard of the popular book Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus. why did the book come to mind? i'm glad you asked.

i work at a dental office, and primarily, i work with five or six female coworkers. due to hurricane ike, the office i worked at was closed and so we had to merge our saturday with another nearby office. at that location, there were another five or six female coworkers. so there were around eleven girls, myself, and the dentist, who happened to be my brother at work.

oh, but james, stop whining like a little child and be serious. you're surrounded by girls... isn't that your dream?

good one. my dream, really? that's not a stretch, at all.

but seriously, today was quite a learning experience. first off, i absolutely enjoyed the company. you have to understand, i wasn't blessed with the chance of having an older or younger sister. i don't see my coworkers as "workers," but rather as, for lack of a better word, "sisters." we joke, we laugh, we talk.

Kids Say the Darndest Things? sure, but i think a group of girls say and do equally, if not more, funny and ridiculous stuff. two examples: a girl brought a huge bag of old clothes, shoes, and accessories she was going to trade into a clothing store. so each girl went through the whole bag commenting on each thing, and when i say each girl and each thing, that's exactly what i mean. second example: when we were closing the store, they talked about hair for the last fifteen minutes. then somehow, they all agreed to show up to work the next day without doing anything to their hair in the morning. just a shower and towel dry. then this part cracked me up... and if there was an "emergency," a girl could flat iron her hair during lunch break.

it's something else... the quirkiness. i wonder if girls think the same about guys doing similar weird stuff, like talk about football or look at cars. who knows?

i do plan on giving the work i mentioned at the beginning of this post a quick read through and evaluating it myself. i personally think that we're not so different. every person, regardless of sex, wants to be appreciated, wants to feel a sense of comfort, wants to be loved. it is this natural desire that makes us human, and ultimately, similar.

-jdv