People, listen up!

If the women in your life need cookies every day for a week, that week is not the time to get all self-righteously indignant about the amount of cookies you have to buy to satisfy them and thus declare that there will be no more talk of cookies and that you are never buying cookies again. Wait until next week and see if the problem doesn't resolve itself. Otherwise, you may find that all of the animals have been shut in your bedroom at 3 in the morning. And you may find, thanks to the dog's barking, that the cats have been given a three-pack of condoms to bat around to keep themselves occupied until you wake up. Just a word of caution.