I'm so not over it.

...Lord knows that this world is cruel
And I ain't the Lord, no I'm just a fool
and shit, loving somebody don't make them love you

Must I always be waiting waiting on you?
Must I always be playing playing your fool?

I sung ya songs I danced a dance
I gave ya friends all a chance
Putting up with them wasn't worth never having you
And maybe you been through this before
But its my first time
So please ignore
The next few lines cause they're directed at you

I cant always be waiting waiting on you
I cant always be playing playing your fool

Why don't men listen?

Scientifically speaking, this was an evolutionary advantage. You are less likely to be gored to death by a saber-tooth tiger if you are focused and not trying to chat about what type of stone your spear-head is made of at the same time. Males cannot suckle the young. Therefore we hunted, and the women reared the children. Since we were hunting, we evolved to focus on one thing at a time. Or rather, men who tried to do too many things at once were eaten, crushed and/or mauled.

Women were not put in this position. On the contrary, they thrived if they could multi-task. If you could skin Grog's freshly killed boar and grunt the baby to sleep at the same time, this was evolutionary efficiency at it's finest!

Unfortunately, as society has developed beyond this rudimentary form of existence, these inherent tendencies did not*.

Well, that's the scientific reasoning anyway. The Realist knows the truth. Men don't listen for one simple reason.

We like other stuff more than we like talking.

If women couldn't multi-task, their communication would change little - they would simply stop what they were doing and focus their attention on the conversation at hand. Men do not. Men do not like to stop watching the car rally to talk about the next door neighbour. Because the next door neighbour is boring, and large pieces of steel crashing into trees and rolling around corners at 130km/h are not. So we do not listen.

Simple huh?

(before you kill me baby, let me say this is intended as humour and is not a dig. LURVE:D)

*A notable exception to this were the men of ancient Rome. When your Empire is secure and you've done your tour of duty you needed to be able to multi-task. It enabled you to discuss politics, eat, have sex and get drunk at the same time. Note that the trade off for this remarkable ability is that Italian women have a tendency to double in body mass the moment they turn 35.