I feel I’ve been vindicated here:
When US scientists asked more than 900 women to break their days into episodes and score them out of six, ‘intimate relations’ scored highest and ‘commuting’ lowest.
These women evidently weren’t familiar with the commuting as gift idea.
It’s from a piece on ‘what women really want‘. Despite not being a woman, I liked this from Nora Ephron:
I am happy to be alive, which is a thought that never used to cross my mind. When you are young, many things never cross your mind.
And the following is relevant to these earlier posts:
The expression “Money can’t buy happiness” is at least partly wrong; money makes people happier. Not that it makes them happy if they’re chronically unhappy, miserable… human beings; but if they have a capacity for happiness, there is no question that money can make you happier.