Why Men Are Like Buses!

Why Men Are Like Buses!

I have mentioned this quote from a wise woman in one of my other blogs, but I think it worthy of expounding on the analogy.

It’s funny that while I was married to my first husband I did not fully appreciate the wisdom of my first mother-in-law, alas, we live and we learn.

When I was divorcing her son after our eight year long marriage I was having coffee with her while she was paying a visit to see my two sons, her beloved grandchildren, and we were speaking about the difficulties encountered in relationships.  It may have been one of the best conversations we ever had over the years that we were family.

Anyway, I was twenty-nine years old at the time, and she actually did support my decision to divorce her son.

Her sage advice was this, and I quote, “Brigid, men are like buses, you stand on the corner long enough and another one comes along”.  At the time I burst out laughing because I couldn’t believe that she was actually saying this to me!  Her future EX-daughter-in-law! 

Think about it though.

It is true.

Men ARE like buses.

Ok, so we have a regular bus (man) we like to ride, (lol), and one day we are heading to that same corner to wait for that good old dependable bus (man) to roll down the street toward us, and for some unforeseeable reason, we MISS the bus (man)!

Now this could take the form of many causations here, remember this is an analogy.  Maybe we broke it off, they broke it off, he didn’t call, whatever…but we missed the bus (man).

So what to do?

Our first impulse is to begin running down the street after the bus (man) regardless of whether we are in our high heels or our Keds and try to catch that bus we just missed!  What happens nine times out of ten when you chase a bus down the street?

You got it.  Nothing.  We end up out of breath and a block or so away from the stop where the next bus (man) will cruise by.

Most of us learn to calmly walk back to the bus (man) stop and just wait for the next bus (man) to come by.  MOST of us.

Some of us are so obsessed with having that particular bus (man) that we may chase the bus for ten blocks, or, God forbid, all the way to our original destination!  What happens then?  Well, if we can run that far and have that much endurance, our feet will blister, we’ll be disheveled and tired, and guess what?  The bus (man) turns around and goes back the other way to continue its’ route!

What happens if we just walk on back to the original bus (man) stop?

Just like my good old ex-mother-in-law said those many, many years ago…

Another bus (man) comes by.

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