Men Are Like Waffles, Women Are Like Spaghetti

So, I have been reading this book recently called Men Are Like Waffles, Women Are Like Spaghetti, a strange title for an amazing book. I found this particular excerpt to be fascinating and I thought I would share it with you. It's a smidgen lengthy, but a good read. It's the Interpersonal Communications Major rising up within me that gets me excited about this junk. So, see if you agree. Here goes:

Men are like waffles. Men process life in boxes. A waffle is a collection of boxes separated by walls. The boxes are all separate from each other and make convenient holding places. That is typically how a man processes life. A man's thinking is divided up into boxes that have room for only one issue. The first issue of life goes in the first box, the second goes in the second box, and so on. The typical man spends time in only one box at a time. When a man is at work, he is at work. When he is in the garage tinkering around, he is in the garage tinkering. When he is watching TV, he is simply watching TV. Social scientists call this compartmentalizing.

Women are like spaghetti. In contrast to men's wafflelike appraoch, women process life more like a plate of spaghetti, you notice that the individual noodles all touch one another. If you attempted to follow one noodle around the plate, you would intersect a lot of other noodles, and you might even switch to another noodle seamlessly. That is how women face life. Every thought and issue is connected to every other thought and issue in some way. Life is much more of a process for women than it is for men. This is why women are typically better at multitasking than men. A woman can talk on the phone, prepare a meal , make a shopping list, work on the planning for tomorrow's business meeting, give instructions to her children as they are going out to play, and close the door with her foot-all without skipping a beat.