The Nothing Box

As I was watching TV the other day, my show went to commercials and so I lazily clicked through the channels until, for some reason, I stopped for a moment on a live lecture with a huge stage backdrop that read "NOTHING BOX". Intrigued I listened for a few minutes and found that the program was about the place where men go to "veg" during stress or just down time, and why women, hard as we try, cannot go there. The "Nothing Box" it seems, is the place where guys are (mentally) when they are staring blankly into space and seem distracted or disinterested in what we females are saying. Apparently, when you ask a man what he is thinking and he answers "nothing" he may be very well be telling the truth! And why can't women go there? Well, because if we invaded a guy's "Nothing Box" we would be shocked to discover that there was actually nothing there. We would immediately start decorating, arranging, and filling the nothing with somethings, driving the poor guys insane. We don't want to idle our minds and vegetate, we want to talk about stuff. Guys need an escape (usually from us). Thus we females are forever banned from the "World of Nothingness", but maybe it's better that way after all.

Still, whenever I see a guy sitting in silence with a blank look on his face, lost to the world, I wonder... what is it like? When a girl gets a blank look on her face it's there for one of two reasons, one, she didn't put it there on purpose; she has no control over that one cell; or two, it's a facade to lull whatever she's talking to into a sense of secure superiority. It's a fun look to get good at.