How men listen

According to a new survey,the average man is an excellent listener who can concentrate for
ages while being addressed on a wide range of topics.Unfortunately this is only the case
when the person talking to him is a male
friend and the conversation is about sport,cars and what used to be referred to as “birds”.
When the person doing the talking is a woman
who he is in a relationship with, however, things all go a bit Cheech and Chong. Listening to the lady in his life is something a man can only manage for six minutes before his mind breaks free from its mooring and drifts dreamily away.
My first thought on reading this was that six
minutes seems like an amazingly long time.Six
whole minutes of full concentration?Frankly,
if something takes longer than six minutes to say,then maybe somebody isn’t really getting to the point quickly enough.
But apparently this was not the point being
made.Instead,the evidence is to be taken as proof that men are bad listeners and that they really should be doing better.
Over half of women in the Ladbrokes-
commissioned survey are so fed up with men
not listening to them that they throw in little
tests to make sure that he is not faking it.They
want to make sure he isn’t doing the classic
man-move of giving the occasional non-
committal nod in the hope that eventually
she’ll get the hint and call a friend instead.