Posted by Traveling Salesman at 7/26/2012 10:38 AM
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“That would be a busision”.
“A what?”
“A busision. Or a buscision or a bucision. A business decision! A busision”
“OK.”So goes life at the home of the Traveling Salesman. It’s like living with a little kid who just learned to rhyme. My college student son continuously combines words into one word and he hit me with that one as we were sitting around talking about business. Let me continue down this path for one quick minute. I love supporting all the industry groups and have had WIFI members blog on here several times. So please forgive me if I make an unfair statement here. But guys have a couple talents or tendencies that the ladies do not have. First, there are things like this playing with language that my son demonstrates. Then, there is something about the young male that causes him to repeat movie lines that apply to certain life situations. When I was courting my dear wife many moons ago, my soon-to-be brother in laws would continuously repeat Monty Python lines. Sometimes I knew the context from whence they came but sometimes I just could not place the line. But my three brother-in-laws knew every one of them. Today, my 63 year old brother cannot have a continuous five minute conversation without injecting a line from a Sienfeld episode. And anybody in the room who was a Sienfeld fan “gets it”.
My sons are borderline pathetic with the whole thing. Every dinner includes multiple South Park, Family Guy, Anchorman, Step-Brothers, or whatever lines and if there are other young males at the table, they all “get it”. They know where the line came from and the context. It is an amazing gift that males have in this area and I’m just not sure the ladies do this same thing. Let me be frank. There are times when my sons do not get along and they get on each other’s nerves. Sometimes their only real communication seems to be either making fun of me and my wife or reciting lines from shows and movies they have both seen. It is quite extraordinary. (…)
