why men die.

so yesterday, i went shopping with debra. (no, that's not why men die. har har.) had me a little "jewelry makeover." my life is sorely lacking in accessories so, clearly, i had to buy new jewelry. and besides, debra held a gun up to my head and forced me to buy them. really, she did. what else could i do but buy the pretty new trinkets. sigh.

anyway, afterwards, we went to barnes to look for a GRE book. i picked that up right away but we spent some more time just flipping through cookbooks, brain teaser books, and other random books. one that caught our eye was called why eve doesn't have an adam's apple: a dictionary of sex differences. the first page we happened to stumble upon displayed two charts - one that listed the ten leading causes of death for men in 1992 and another for women. the first two leading causes of death were the same for men and women: 1) heart disease, and 2) cancer. the third leading cause of death for women was cerebrovascular disease. the third leading cause of death for men was... get this...

accidents.

ACCIDENTS. debra and i burst out laughing in the middle of barnes and noble. i mean, accidents! how funny is that! (well, not that funny because it's death, but still.) and when i think of accidents, for some reason, i don't think of things like car accidents. i think of things like walking into a wall or tripping over a crack or falling down the stairs. so it just struck me as especially funny.

accidents... *shakes head*

[ooh, this is post number 1,111.]