A few days ago I introduced you to Miss Dawn. She is our director of promotions here at the Bruce Mikells Multi-Media Center. She is always a breath of fresh air to me. Her very candid and honest point of view about life, love, and what's important always makes me stop and think. She also works her butt off to make sure that you, the folks that listen to the radio station, are always well taken care of.

I recently asked Miss Dawn in a joking manner, What's Wrong With Women? You can read her reply by clicking that link. Her Part 2 to that story follows. I have to admit I learned some important things about relating to the ladies in the first three paragraphs.

What's Wrong With Women Pt. 2:

I absolutely love when my phone rings and it’s my boyfriend, Derek, asking me to go on a date! For me, there is nothing more romantic than my honey-buns wanting to take me out on the town.

 

This past Saturday afternoon my phone rang and it was Derek. He asked if I wanted to go eat and then go see a movie. It’s like music to my ears; of course I want to go out. I pop up off my sofa and start getting ready.

 

Shower done, hair fixed,  make-up on, now to find something to wear. Oh boy, this is where the fun begins. I have a closet full of clothes and absolutely nothing to wear. Oh the irony! It seems like many women have this same problem. I’m not a girlie-girl. I grew up with two brothers, I’m a proud tomboy. My closet is mostly packed with t-shirts, jeans and workout clothes. I have a few dresses and a handful of dressy shirts, all of which I hate because none of them fit right, ladies can you relate?

 

After trying on multiple outfits, I finally find something that is tolerable, my favorite pair of Silver Jeans, a white camisole with a black button down ¾ inch sleeve sweater thing over it and a pink scarf. Done!

 

Now I wait for my chariot to arrive.

 

Derek arrives in his jacked-upped Southern Boy truck and I try desperately to get into it without splitting my pants. Success! He asks me where I want to eat and of course I give him my typical girl answer “it doesn’t matter” but it really does because for weeks I’ve been saying that I wanted sushi.

 

If you are a man reading this, you’re probably saying to yourself that  "this is the kind of stuff that drives me up the wall". Why can’t women just say exactly what we want? Here’s the deal, women talk a lot and guys tend to tune out a lot of what we say. We are not oblivious to this fact. Sometimes we just want to see if our man is paying attention to anything that we say. As we pull into the sushi bar park lot, I can’t help but wonder if he had been paying attention all those weeks or if maybe he has the gift of ESP. Doesn’t matter to me either way, I’m getting sushi tonight!

 

As we wait for our food to arrive, I ask Derek what movie he wants to see. His suggestion is an action movie.  It’s some Keanu Reeves movie he tells me.I have no clue what movie he’s talking about so he uses his handy-dandy smart phone and finds the trailer for me to look at. Within the first few seconds of seeing the trailer, I knew that I wasn’t going to like this movie.

 

Before I tell you why I felt this way, let me tell you a little about the movie. Keanu Reeves’ character is a retired assassin.

Spoiler Alert: skip the next three paragraphs if you don't want to know about the movie

Apparently he was very good at his job but once he found the woman of his dreams he decided to walk away from this job he was so good at and settle down. His wife finds out that she has cancer. Before she passes away she arranges to have a puppy delivered to him after she dies. In the note that was delivered to him along with the puppy, she explains him that she arranged for the puppy to be sent to him after her death because she doesn’t want him to grieve alone. Oh my goodness, someone hand me a tissue!

 

He grows fond of this little puppy who is absolutely adorable. One morning he goes to a gas station to put gas in his car. A group of guys start gawking over his beautiful 1970ish mustang, I would have too. One of the guys wants to buy the car but Keanu said that it wasn’t for sale and he leaves. This does not sit very well with one guy and he arranges for  his goons to go to Keanu’s house and steal the car. They go to his house at night, beat Keanu up, kill his puppy and steal his car.

After this takes place, the rest of the movie is all about Keanu getting revenge on these guys not just for beating him up and stealing his car but mostly for killing his puppy. So within the first few seconds of the trailer you learn that his puppy will be killed which doesn’t sit well with me at all but Derek seems to really want to see this movie so I agree to watch it. I mean, how can I say no when he brought me to eat sushi?

 

I have nothing against action movies. I do enjoy them but as I sat and waited for this movie to start, I just knew that I was going to have a hard time enjoying it because of the fact that an animal is killed. The previews roll and the movie began. I watch his wife pass away, I watch the puppy get delivered, I watch the part where the guy wants to buy the car and I am now fully aware that the part where the puppy gets killed is coming up. I braced myself.

 

These horrible men break into Keanu’s house, beat him up, and take his car keys. His puppy, named Daisy, whimpers as these men beat up her owner. One of the guys finds her and hits her. My heart stops. I knew it was coming but it was still hard to watch but that was only the beginning. In the next scene you see blood smeared from where Daisy was when she got hit all the way to where her owner is. It was obvious that she drug her hurt bleeding body from where she was all the way across the kitchen floor in order to put her little face by her owner’s.

 

At this point I look at Derek and say “I don’t like this movie” to which he replies, “why?”.

 

Let me explain something to you about women. For some reason we sometimes put ourselves in other people’s shoes, so it speak, whether this person is real or a movie character. As I sat there and saw that puppy lying dead by her owner’s head, I couldn’t help but think about my own little dog. He’s so sweet and innocent. He loves to chase leaves and eat apples. He barks when the doorbell rings but is too chicken to go see who is there. He’s a mess but I Love that ball of fluff. I don’t want to imagine someone doing to him what these guys did to that puppy in the movie. That’s why I didn’t like the movie. I know it sounds silly but during the rest of the movie I couldn’t stop thinking about what they did to that puppy. I was so relieved when the movie was over. I think I was the first one out of that theater.

 

When I got home that night, the first thing I did was pick-up Tiger, my ball of fluff, and hug him. After that, I let Derek know that I would be choosing the next movie. I don’t think animals are hurt in the Hunger Games?

 

There’s nothing wrong with women, I’m proof of that.

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