It’s usually men who have a bad reputation for not noticing changes in their significant other’s appearance or clothing. For example, I’ve always said I could dye my hair purple and my husband might not notice, and certainly, because I have a lot of clothing (like most women do), he’d likely not notice a new outfit. He’d just assume it was something I already had in the closet. It’s not that he doesn’t care enough to notice. It’s because we work together and live together 24/7 and stop noticing small changes. For the record, if I dyed my hair purple, he would notice. However, he shaved one day and I didn’t notice. So it’s not just men who are guilty of this, ladies. We do it, too. In the joke below, an old cowboy is perturbed that his wife doesn’t notice his boots, but she has the perfect comeback. Enjoy this hilarious joke!
An elderly couple, Margaret and Bert, live in Arkansas.
Bert always wanted a pair of authentic cowboy boots. So seeing some on sale one day, he buys them, wears them home, walking proudly.
He walks into the house and says to his wife ‘Notice anything different about me?’
Margaret looks him over, ‘Nope.’
Frustrated, Bert storms off into the bathroom, undresses, and walks back into the room completely naked except for the boots.
Again, he asks, a little louder this time ‘Notice anything different NOW?’
Margaret looks up and says, ‘Bert, what’s different? It’s hanging down today, it was hanging down yesterday, and it’ll be hanging down again tomorrow.’
Furious, Bert yells, AND DO YOU KNOW WHY IT’S HANGING DOWN, MARGARET?
‘Nope,’ she replies.
‘IT’S HANGING DOWN BECAUSE IT’S LOOKING AT MY NEW BOOTS!!!!!’ Bert yells.
To which Margaret replies…Shoulda bought a hat, Bert. Shoulda bought a hat.
