Here's to Happy Women...

Sometimes, when playing with girls, the rules are different. Take, for instance, the game of golf. When a friendly wager enters the competition, the stakes are often different and so are the rules. You might say that it’s a completely different ball game when you play with the girls. Recently, I played a round of golf with a good friend. She and I decided to play skins. For those of you not familiar with skins, the basic principal is that the person with the lowest score on each hole wins the amount wagered (the skin) on the hole. We bet a dollar a hole. A basic rule I’ ve always adhered to while playing skins is “one tie all tie.” Meaning if more than one person gets the lowest score (a tie) on a hole, then everyone playing moves on to the next hole and the wager, or skin, for the tied hole (or holes) carries over to the new hole. Whoever wins the new hole gets the skin for new hole and any skins from any preceding tied holes...

Why is it that food can bring out the worst in some people — especially when it involves group participation and dining out? There are the ordinary pitfalls of deciding what to eat, where to eat, and when to eat. Any one of these issues can have relatively sane people frothing at the mouth—and not because they’re starving, but because they can’t agree. Then, of course, there’s the tallying of the bill. In my experience, some do and some don’t— meaning that there always seems to be those who order five courses, the most expensive drinks, and then throw in two thirds (or less) of what they owe. I like to split the bill evenly, regardless of who ordered what—with each party putting in a credit card (hopefully their own). One friend of mine doesn’t feel this is fair, because she doesn’t drink, and everyone else does. Never mind that her husband drinks more than the rest of us combined, or that she was the only one who just had to have crab cakes for a starter, and finished off with tira...