There are worse criteria for spousal selection
Posted by MoreCoffeePlease on 23 May 2008 at 03:39 pm | Tagged as: Business
From an interview with Jeff Bezos:
Portfolio: Are you always extremely methodical about major decisions?
Bezos: With business decisions, yes. With personal decisions, I find that my methodical nature can confuse me, and so I think more about personal decisions, like what job you really want to take or whom you want to marry. Although I did have criteria for that.
Portfolio: You had a list for a spouse?
Bezos: I kind of did. It was a short list. I wanted a woman who could get me out of a third-world prison. It was really just a visualization for resourcefulness, because people who are not resourceful drive me bananas.
I can totally relate. When I was making my list, I wanted someone who could sink an artesian well. Oh, and they had to look good in spats, too. In case spats ever came back into fashion.
I tried wearing gaiters once (MEC ones for cycling) and felt like a complete dork. Not sure if that counts.
They used to be de rigeur for Anglican clergy:
There was an archdeacon who said,
Can I take off my gaiters in bed,
But the bishop said no
Wherever you go
You must wear them until you are dead.