So theres this guy named Mil Milington, right. He did a site called Things My Girlfriend and I Have Argued About. He’s also written a few books. In addition to that he sends out an email to his mailing list whenever he gets around to it. And he just got around to it.

Here’s a quick excerpt:

Our retinae screen different images. Her eyesight is freer, with less clichéd loci of attention, and it’s definitely no slave to either the visible portion of the electromagnetic spectrum or commonly-held laws of Physics. Illustratively, last night I’m driving home when, from the passenger seat, she points ahead at a car that’s driving towards us and shouts, “Watch out! That car’s on the other side of the road!”

“So?” I reply. “Oncoming cars are supposed to be on the other side of the road. That’s why we don’t run into them. You probably ought to shout only if you see one on our side of the road.” For clarity, I helpfully explain a key fact about yelling out warnings: “It’s all about picking your targets, really.”

She huffs at this nit-picking. (Oh, the car was on the other side of the road, by the way. This wasn’t simply infuriating, semantic pedantry on my part - because, as you know, I don’t indulge in that kind of behaviour.) And, for her view from the driver’s seat, we need go back only a few days. We’d been to the solicitor to complete our wills (yeah, we know how to party). In the car minutes later, Margret suddenly and rapidly asks me, “Are the wills in force now?” She asks this in conjunction with abruptly accelerating powerfully towards a set of changing traffic lights. I’m sure she’d call this ‘making an informed decision’. Having different priorities, I yelped an answer that may not have been legally correct, but it was the one I felt increased my chances of not needing to be cut from the vehicle by the emergency services. Call me boring, but when it comes to wills I like to play the long game.

Read the whole thing at http://microurl.com/mil/phorteetoo