The difference between men and women:
My ward got together last night to prepare for our stake's NIGHT OF THE LIVING SCRIPTURES!!! Only it's actually called Festival of the Living Scriptures but I like the other name better. It's like a mini roadshow where each ward has to put on a 10 minute skit depicting a specific scripture story. Ours is the 2000 Stripling Warriors. It is exactly the type of thing that I fight against because I'm a cranky old woman but in reality I enjoy because it has that Judy Garland/Micky Rooney Summerstock kind of feel to it which I can't resist.
(I just realized that the above paragraph was very Mormon-y and that some of you out there may not have any idea what a ward or a stake or a roadshow or a Stripling Warrior is. Here's a glossary. Helpful, right? I live to serve you.)
We have changed the story around so that it's about a rag-tag band of bowlers (because bowling always gets a laugh, which is why, as you know, I'm having my wedding reception at a bowling alley. For laughs, people.) I ended up on the scenery painting team, turning butcher paper into a bowling alley.
Now, here's where the difference comes in: Women, when doing artistic things like this, will just jump in with a pencil and start estimating where things go. Lanes here, lettering there, a couple of bowling balls scattered over the top. As long as it looks good, right? And, I'm here to tell you, it always looks good. Men, on the other hand, will go into the library and grab a yard stick, which they will use to meticulously measure out the exact amount of inches needed to fit in the alley, the gutter and the ball return, making sure that the ball return is on the proper side, and making sure that there is the proper perspective, with lanes on the ends being smaller than the lanes in the middle, so that when you look at the butcher paper representation it looks authentic. This also looks good, if not slightly neurotic.
I'm not saying either way is better because both ways work. But there were definite moments when the women would roll their eyes and say, "Men," and the men would roll their eyes and say, "Pass me the ruler."
7 comments:
You WILL post the script, yes? Did you use any of may fantastic suggestions? I laugh just remembering.
Can I just express to you my sadness right now, knowing that we moved out of the ward just weeks before this fun little project began. You're going to have to give details now. Whose doing what, who is acting as who, etc....Oh, and when are you guys performing. I think the Rileys may need to visit the Upland Stake soon!
I love this post! Chris and I recently installed a microwave over the stovetop. Hilarious. Chris is the very meticulous one of the marriage, so I let him take charge. I, on the other hand, would have just gone for it and hoped for the best. Thanks to his precision, the microwave was installed and the next day, was still in it's place! Yeah!
So true. Tim's quilts end up much much better than mine because of his measuring skills and attention to detail.
My brother and sister-in-law and their wedding party and selected other family and friends all went bowling and then to Denny's after their reception. Great photos.
Measure twice, cut once!
I love that men and women are different. It makes me happy to know that someone is in charge of formatting the computer and being slightly neurotic when he puts up the towel racks. It makes me appreciate him all the more .. . and Puhlease post the script. I'm dying with laughter just thinking about 2000 stripling warriors at a bowling alley.
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