The 'better half' of the relationship sets little traps like this all the time. The most famous of which is "does this make me look fat?" to which the most appropriate answer is NO, the 1/2 gallon of fudge tracks ice cream you eat each night makes you look fat. So with that as the set up, let me ask this. And I am serious! In fact I'm really serious about this.
So imagine YOUR wife holding a "green" Christmas decoration in her hand. And imagine a full 64 count box of Crayola Crayons. Now while looking at that box of crayons, realize that absolutely no color in that box that you can see is what your wife can imagine in her mind. Now comes the obvious question that was asked of me while standing in a store. "after I repaint the kitchen do you think this would match the new wall color?"
But what she really asked was: "after I have the kitchen repainted in the avocodo sort of color that I was thinking about but never really discussed with you and certainly never showed you, do you think this would look good in that room that you have no idea what I am going to do to because you weren't really paying attention anyway?"
So what was my appropriate answer, because stating the obvious didn't seem to work out so well for me
So imagine YOUR wife holding a "green" Christmas decoration in her hand. And imagine a full 64 count box of Crayola Crayons. Now while looking at that box of crayons, realize that absolutely no color in that box that you can see is what your wife can imagine in her mind. Now comes the obvious question that was asked of me while standing in a store. "after I repaint the kitchen do you think this would match the new wall color?"
But what she really asked was: "after I have the kitchen repainted in the avocodo sort of color that I was thinking about but never really discussed with you and certainly never showed you, do you think this would look good in that room that you have no idea what I am going to do to because you weren't really paying attention anyway?"
So what was my appropriate answer, because stating the obvious didn't seem to work out so well for me
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