My girlfriend likes to buy furniture. Every weekend we go to an auction. She bids on whatever she likes and we bring it home to her apartment. Once in her apartment, she says, "I want this furniture here, that furniture there, and that furniture over there." So I put this furniture here, that furniture there, and that furniture over there.

One morning my girlfriend woke me up by shaking me and yelling, "Wake up! Wake up! I want you to move the furniture!'

"Move the furniture?! Yesterday you wanted me to move the furniture here, there and over there. Now you want me to move the furniture again! Why?"

"Because yesterday I was a different person. The person I was yesterday wanted the furniture in one place. Today, I'm the kind of a person who wants the furniture in another place."

This buying and moving went on until we filled the apartment with furniture. This time my girlfriend said to me, "Now that we have an apartment full of furniture, let's sell everything."

"Sell everything! Why would you want to sell everything?" I couldn't believe what she was saying. "We went to all the trouble to buy all this furniture, and to move it around countless time. Now you want to sell it all! Why?"

"So we can start over." she says in the most calm and guilt-free tone you could ever imagine.

Next day I moved all the furniture outside. I put garage sale signs all over our neighborhood. Our first customers were a married couple who looked like they were in heaven when they saw all that great furniture. It seemed as if they were going to buy it all. I was willing to sell it all but before I could I heard my girlfriend's voice yelling, "Don't sell anything, don't sell anything!"

My girlfriend had changed her mind again. "Why did you change your mind?" I inquired impatiently. "Yesterday you wanted to sell everything."

"That was yesterday." she says. "Yesterday I was the kind of a person who wanted to sell. Today I'm the kind of a person who doesn't want to sell. Move everything back in." I moved all the furniture back in, and put it were it was before. My girlfriend looked around and was very pleased with herself. She said, "Now that we have all this furniture, let's get married."

"No thanks!" I replied.

"No thanks?" she yelled. "When we met, you said that you wanted to get married!"

"That was before. When we met, I was the kind of a person who wanted to get married. Today I'm the kind of a person who doesn't want to get married."

She said, "But if you don't' want to get married, then what is there for us to do?"

"Let's start over."