Gender-Heavy Families
Climbing the steps to the Mount Rushmore monument last summer, I glanced to my right to see another family trudging next to us. The father was closest to me surrounded by his My Pretty Pony/Hannah Montana brood.
I got his attention. “Please tell me,” I said, gesturing to his pretty wife and pink, frilly daughters, “that at least your dog is a boy.”
He blinked at me, glanced to his family, and gave me a quizzical look.
I waved an arm toward my own Guitar Hero/lumberjack family and offered by way of explanation, “Our cat is a male.” Then pointed at myself and shrugged.
He laughed and replied, “No. Our dog is a girl, too.”
“I’m so sorry.”
“Thanks.”
8 comments:
Ha! Roses, I know what you're saying. My wife always says "I had four boys, because I wanted ONE girl."
I grew up in a family like that, too. There were so many males in our family that we just barely had a mother.
And it's all down to the father .....
Heh- on my side of my family- it's mostly girls.
On the hubby's side....there are mostly boys....my FIL has 27 grandkids- only four are girls.
Before we went our sepeste ways, I lived in a house full of females!
Wife, three daughters and, yes, a female Scotch terrier!!
Now I live in an all male house, Just Meeeeee!!
oops!! that should read *seperate*.
Guess that last dram went straight to the keyboard :)
My two brothers are the only boys in our generation. The oldest one has 5 boys, the other one has 2. There's only 1 girl in the group. Guess that family name will continue for a while.
I keep telling my husband he's the lone cock in the henhouse. Me, daughter, 2 female dogs. It's good to be head of the harem! :)
I'm the youngest of 8.
Only one sister.
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