Whether you’re a guy or a girl you can never underestimate the value of a “translator”. These wonderful and truly gifted people make your life a hell of a lot more easy and can help explain to you the secrets of the opposite sex – thus saving you a heck of a lot of time and effort! They’re not easy to find at all – in fact I wouldn’t know how the hell you would find one – but if, or when, you do you’ll no doubt discover that each translator has a wide and varied following and is revered by all who know them. Translators can tell more about you and your life in two minutes than most people will know in a year. It’s that simple. It’s that effective.

So how can you tell a translator from anyone else in the community? Well, for a start, translators have a fairly even spread of friends from both sexes and people are always going to them for advice on virtually anything, they can strip a car engine AND talk about lipstick colors – often at the same time, they get the best prices on stuff that is both functional AND decorative and they can drink beer and belch, fart and talk football with the boys AND drink cocktails with umbrellas and talk about nylons, love and “sensitive” issues with the gals. Of course this is simplifying things a bit, but you get the picture. A translator can go both ways, but without having to resort to AC/DC – though some might be into that as well….

So what makes a translator so important and useful to people? It’s simple really. A translator truly understands both sexes – and not just in a superficial sense. As you know knowledge is power!

It’s often said that women understand women and men understand men and that women and men don’t understand each other. This is a given and there are people who have made a lot of money by pointing out these similarities and differences to us. People like John Gray for instance. While I could say that his book “Men are from Mars. Women are from Venus” bored me to tears due to it’s simplistic approach and high “DUH” factor, I would also have to confess to only having read a scaled down version of the book so I may have underestimated it somewhat. I can say that he’s on the right trail at least. Women and men are fundamentally different and that’s all there is to it. They actually think differently (though some may argue that men don’t actually “think” at all and there’s some truth to that sometimes. Likewise it’s often said, by the other camp, that women can’t reason properly and are not logical. Like everything else in life the “truth” is somewhere in the middle.)

So a translator helps smooth the transition between what is said and what is actually meant. They can tell you what’s really being said when a guy tells you that you’re “fun to be with”, and can help lessen the blow when you realize that it means “great to sleep with, but leave me alone otherwise”. Likewise they can help teach guys not to try and “solve” a situation when all their partner wants is chocolate, a listener and a cuddle. That’s the true power of a translator.

I’d have to say that in my entire life I have only ever met one translator. Fortunately I’ve learned enough from them over the years to keep me out of “trouble” for the most part. Anything I’m unsure about, my translator is only a phone call away!

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