Boys Are Funny

It all started while Ashton and I were stuck in traffic on our way home. We haven't seen each other in weeks so there was much to catch up on. He was telling me about his new job and I was telling him about school, and then we started talking about girls. Specifically, about ranking them on a scale from 1-10.

"You don't understand, this girl is like a 7, when he used to date a 9," he said.
"Who did he date that was a 9?" I asked.
"Lisa*."
"Lisa is a 9?! In that case Angelina Jolie must be a 15! Lisa is not a 9."
"You can't compare Angelina Jolie to Lisa. It's like comparing apples and oranges. You have to put them on their own scale."
"But a 9?"
"Then what is she?" Ashton countered.
"A 7, or an 8 if I was being generous. But not a 9!"
"A 7?! How are you judging them? This girl has big boobs, a cute face and she's fun to hang out with. She's a 9."
Since he was being so general, I didn't want to get into why I thought she was more of a 7 than a 9 (flat hair, sallow skin, etc.) so my response was, "Uh huh, ok then," and then we started talking about something else.

Fast forward to dinner, when Matt and Chris joined us and the topic came up again.

"You know how Lisa's a 9, right?" Ashton prompted.
"Yeah, yeah," Matt responded, not even a split second later.
"Why?" I asked Matt.
"Big boobs and a cute face."

And then fast forward to even later when we met up with Danny at a bar and he started explaining to me that girls can never be a 10.

"10 is the goal. 10 is perfect. You can never have a perfect 10."
"How about Angelina Jolie?" I asked. (If you guys haven't gotten it yet, yes, I think Angelina Jolie is hot.)
"Angelina Jolie is a 9. No one can be a 10, that's just the way it is."

I looked at the other guys and they nodded their heads in agreement.

Then for the rest of the night, we proceeded to rank the girls coming in and out of the bar. It is amusing to note that these guys were very generous with their 9s. I wonder if they realized that if no girl can be a 10, then a 9 will be the highest ranking. Why even bother with a ranking system at all?

*names have been changed to protect the individual's privacy.