Test your relationship Here's how the scoring works:
Example: SIMPLE DUTIES You go out to buy her flowers: +5 You return with beer: -5 You check out a suspicious noise at night and it's nothing: 0 You check out a suspicious noise and it's something: +5 You pummel it with a six iron: +10 It's her cat: -20
1) SOCIAL ENGAGEMENTS You stay by her side the entire party: 0 You stay by her side for a while, then leave to chat with a drinking buddy: -2 Named Tiffany: -4 Tiffany is a dancer: -6
2) SATURDAY AFTERNOONS You visit her parents: +1 You visit her parents and actually make conversation: +3 You visit her parents and stare vacantly at the television: -3 The television is off: -6 You spend the afternoon watching college football in your underwear: -6 And you didn't even go to college: -10 And it's not your underwear: -15
3) HER BIRTHDAY You take her out to dinner: 0 You take her out to dinner and it's not a sports bar: +1 Okay, it is a sports bar: -2 And it's all-you-can-eat night: -3 It's a sports bar; it's all-you-can-eat night; and your face is painted the colors of your favorite team: -10 You give her a gift: 0 You give her a gift, and it's not a small appliance: +1 You give her a gift, and it IS a small appliance: -20 You give her a gift that you'll be paying off for months: +30 You wait until the last minute and buy her a gift that day: -10 With her credit card: -30 And whatever you bought is two sizes too big: -40
4) THOUGHTFULNESS You forget to pick her up at the bus station: -25 Which is in Detroit: -35 And the pouring rain dissolves her leg cast: -50
5) A NIGHT OUT WITH YOUR PALS You have a few beers: -9 For every beer after three, -2 again You miss curfew by an hour: -12 You get home at 3 a.m.: -20 You get home at 3 a.m. smelling of tequila and cheap cigars: -30 And not wearing any pants: -40 Is that a tattoo? -200
6) A NIGHT OUT, JUST THE TWO OF YOU You go see a comic: +2 He's crude and sexist: -2 You laugh: -5 You laugh too much: -10 She's not laughing: -15 You laugh harder: -25
7) DRIVING You lose the directions on a trip: -4 You lose the directions and end up getting lost: -10 You end up getting lost in a bad part of town: -15 You get lost in a bad part of town and meet the locals: -25 She finds out you lied about having a black belt: -60
8) COMMUNICATION When she wants to talk, you listen, for over 30 minutes: +5 You display a rapt, concerned expression: +10 You listen for more than 30 minutes, without looking at the television: +10 She realizes this is because you've fallen asleep: -20 You forward her funny e-mails with love notes attached: +50 She realizes she is third on the list: -500
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