Offering an Opinion about Gender Differences . . .

This is a joke from the internet. But there is a VERY LARGE TRUTH around which the humor is woven


For the past ten years a secret store that sells new husbands has been operating in New York City. Women can purchase a husband at this store.

At the entrance to the store, the prospective buyer must sign a release, indicating she has read the rules of the store and will abide by them, and keep secret the outcome of her shopping trip. Here are the rules:

1. You may visit this store ONLY ONCE!
2. There are six floors and the value of the products increase as the shopper ascends.
3. The shopper may choose any item from a particular floor, or may choose to go up to the next floor, but cannot go back down except to exit the building.

Here is an account of the typical visit by a typical woman:

On the first floor the sign on the door reads: Floor 1 - These men have jobs.

The second floor sign reads: Floor 2 - These men have jobs and love kids.

The third floor sign reads: Floor 3 - These men have jobs, love kids, and are extremely good looking.

Naturally the shopper, sensing a trend, skips each floor and now hastens up to the fourth floor and where the sign reads: Floor 4 - These men have jobs, love kids, are drop-dead good looking and help with housework.

Excitedly she heads up to the fifth floor. Here the sign reads: Floor 5 - These men have jobs, love kids, are drop-dead good looking, help with housework, and have a strong romantic streak.

Of course the shopper is tempted, but she goes up to the sixth floor, where the sign reads:

Floor 6 - You are visitor 31,456,012 to this floor. There are no men on this floor. This floor exists solely as proof that women are impossible to please. Thank you for shopping at the Husband Store.

Naturally The Husband Store makes no money for the owners. So to cover all their expenses, they opened another store, the Wife Store. It is near the Husband Store. And it, too, has six floors and the exact same rules.

The prospective buyer, after signing in, is greeted with this sign on the door to the first floor: Floor 1 - These women are very good looking and love sex.

Many men go right in the door and make their purchase. For the more discerning make, who goes up to the second floor, the sign reads: Floor 2 - These women are good looking, love sex and have money.

No man has ever gone past the second floor.