"I will build her a cake."
My personal belief is that many women are so self absorbed and so concerned whether or not someone is offending them that they often fail to see the reality of life around them. This insane behavior then bleeds into everything else.
For example, I am helping a couple do a real estate closing. The house is in her name, but he pays for everything. This is not uncommon. She is currently in Florida in the vacation house that he pays for while he is working like a slob. The house they are selling is a must sell scenario since the carrying costs are very high. There are no other buyers than the current one and they need some concessions to close the deal.
In any event, the husband asked me to get the contracts out. I did and agreed to a pre-closing occupancy, with the husbands consent. The house needs fixing up and it is sort of a dealbreaker for them if they can't do it. The broker the other attorney, and myself are happy because we are making some headway. If we can't close this deal it is going to cost the client at least 9,000 in carrying costs until we find another buyer, and that is without taking into consideration lowering the purchase price!
As soon as wifey hears about this she flips. She starts screaming and yelling at me. She wants the buyers to be allowed only three days and wants to charge them for access. She wants stiff penalties for this than that.
I explained to her that if she makes terms on the buyers harsh to the point that they walk away, it would cost her thousands of dollars. She did not care, despite my explaining to her that her demands for a few hundred dollars were going to cause her thousands. I wanted hang up on her , but that would be rude.
I then tried calling the husband to run interference. The phone was busy. You know what that meant. Oh, did he get an earful, from Florida. She was ranting and raving and being totally illogical, irrational, and without any sense of reality.
The point is that many many women are so caught up in nonsense as to not be able to think straight. And this goes on and on and on.
Any thoughts?