A friend was complaining that her boyfriend would
not say "I love you," even if explicitly asked to
do so. The only exception, she said, was when
they were in fact in the act of making love.
Then, if asked, he would say the sacred words.
I suggested that she should not take too much
comfort in the exception. When making love, I
explained, men will say anything.
"He'd tell you he's the Easter Bunny if that's
what he thinks you want to hear," I told her. The
conversation rattled on from there.
A couple of weeks later, she related the
following. "We were in bed, making love and I
said, 'Tell me you love me'."
He said, "I love you."
I said, "Tell me you're the Easter Bunny."
He stopped for a second, and said, "I'm the Easter Bunny."
"So I slapped him."
The poor guy probably still doesn't know what happened.
