Thursday, October 21, 2010

Girls Are Sneaky

Have you ever watched Star Wars: Return of the Jedi? If you have, then maybe you are familiar with one of my favorite Star Wars characters - Admiral Ackbar. He is famous for two things: 1. His big line in the movie "IT'S A TRAP!" and 2. Ole Miss almost made him their mascot. Picture and video below:

Admiral Ackbar


notice the "It's a trap!" signs around the :43 - :45 second mark

Why do I tell you this? Well let me tell you a little story.

My wife likes to run about two to three times a week in the morning for her daily workout. The other days she does an exercise video. Occasionally she asks me run with her to (a) keep her company, and (b) make sure she doesn't get kidnapped or mugged while she is by herself. Call me overprotective, but I don't want either of those things to happen.

The other morning I went on one of these runs, and everything started out normally. We walked for the first 2 minutes and then we started running. After a couple of minutes of running, Amanda said the following:

"I don't feel so good. I don't think I want to run anymore, can we just walk?"

Immediately I pictured Admiral Ackbar saying "IT'S A TRAP!" in my head because girls are sneaky. What do I mean by sneaky? Well what if I told you that Amanda has said she wanted to quit early on a run before and my reply was "ok". Immediately after my reply though, I was told "Hey, you are here to make sure I don't die, and to make sure I keep running! Don't let me slack off."

Now you know why I thought it was a trap. After a couple seconds of thinking about it, and wondering what to do, I decided that I was going to do my duty and make her keep running. To which her reply was "But I don't feel gooooooood :( :( :( :(" or something to that effect. I let her know that I thought I was supposed to make her keep running and she told me that I didn't have to this time.

This reiterates my point: Girls are sneaky.

Needless to say, we walked for the remainder of the allotted workout time and finished up at our house. I don't know if I will ever understand women...

Do you have any good sneaky girl stories?