How to get a man to do what you want

Recently I was talking to a guy who just got off the phone to his girlfriend. She was mad, he said, but he just didn’t know what about. “I wish she would just tell me what I did wrong,” he sighed, “instead of just acting pissed off and hoping I’ll figure it out.”
“I won’t figure it out. I’m a guy.”
Well, isn’t that just too easy? We could just tell guys what we want and need from them. Imagine. We could put an end to the frustration we feel when our boys swap Thai takeaway for that romantic meal at Est, don’t bother with flowers on Valentines Day and think that a blender is a really great birthday gift.
Bless their cotton socks, but most guys aren’t born with an instinctive understanding of women. In fact they find us downright flummoxing at times. It’s high time us chicks realised they want to please us, but they have no idea how.
In the spirit of this – next time I get the chance I’m going to tell my guy the following things and not wait for him to surprise me with his insightfulness:
*** I’d like to try to go to the hot new restaurant on Crown Street and I want you to book it for this Friday night at 7.30.
*** I want flowers sent to my work on my birthday – which incidentally is next Thursday. Please write that down.
*** I don’t think a good night out is takeaway and a game of pool. Take me dancing.
*** I’d like you to cook something other than spag bol for me this Monday when I come home from Pilates and I’m really tired. Then I want you to not talk to me during Desperate Housewives.
Tell me! What do you want to tell your partner that they can’t work out on their own?