Just found this at Don's blog and Adrian: you are right. Don's theory isn't new: read a book written by Allan and Barbara Pease a few weeks ago named: "Why Men Don't Listen: And Women Can't Read Maps: How We're Different and What to Do About It" at amazon.com (the german one is "Warum Männer lügen und Frauen immer Schuhe kaufen", at amazon.de). There are many answers to such questions and you can certainly get a better understanding of both your own behavior and the mysterious behavior of the opposite sex. Just read it with an open mind and have fun - don't take it too seriously, but it's amusing! If Don would read the book (may be it is just done?) he will find it's refrigerator problem explained