He's talking in Movie Mode again. I'm listening with my SnoCaps and buttered popcorn.

So there I was, sitting at the park with company, engaged in full and inviting conversation, while my daughter trampled the grounds with other children at play. Being around a toddler for so much time, a person can become slightly jaded when the opportunity to talk one on one with another adult comes about. I'm reminded that I do have a social life outside of being a parent, and it's wonderful.

Anyway, we're ranting on about the movies we've seen, want to see, jobs, friends, the whole nine yards. I had to catch myself in the excitement so I wouldn't appear overly eager as if I hadn't had decent banter for some time (I have, but with guys, it's rare). He rambles onto a tale of a bad experience he encountered with a car of his. From having my own share of unwanted vehicular misfortune, this was a topic I could more than relate to. As his story developed, he reached a pivotal moment and the dialogue became sound infested.

Bingo. I'm instantly awarded my next article idea without trying to seek one out; communication differences between men and women. Now it's not new news that males and females describe stories in completely opposites ways, I know this, but we don't often fester on the moment when it happens. We notice, and quickly move to the next thing we have to say.

It's online, in books, spoken by psychologists, and been proven as fact a million times over that men aren't open talkers when it comes to sharing feelings and problems like women are. One thing they do have one up on us is, they love to animate their chitchat with cartoon effect. When a guy is raving about a fight he witnessed, a car crash, etc, it is in his d.n.a to include his own recreation of how everything had sounded at that moment of time, kind of like this guy impersonating a train:

Guy on Subway

For me, it's almost live television. I become engrossed in the words, their attention to detail, and their fanaticism in making sure that I'm as wrapped up in their convo as they are. Repartee has more life and character to it when we can re-enact our personal moments with noises. The humor in this, is that when women go on about lets say, engine trouble, we focus on expressing our anger and frustration by complaints, rolling eyes, and maybe clenched fists hoisted in the air. Guys will discuss their engine troubles by mimicking the sounds that emanated from under the hood for a more thorough approach, get it?

Maybe it's set in the x/y genetics that separates a mans' approach to storytelling from the rest of us? Maybe it's growing up in a world dominated by technological advances, who knows?! My awareness is set on the dependability that if I am in dire need of a laugh or run into trouble where I need to explain to my mechanic the issues I'm having, I'm calling up one of my guys to stand in and 'perform'. Wouldn't it help all of us to have someone like this famous guy as a go to friend:

Mike Winslow

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The Mad Cow

He's talking in Movie Mode again. I'm listening with my SnoCaps and buttered popcorn.