Your post reminds me of some wisdom I once heard, and maybe a new thread is being born here, about the "point system" which works this way:

If she does something great for you, for example, possible points might be awarded thus

*Threesome with her super hottie friend, she gets 10,000 points
*New set of golf clubs or hand made pipe or a set of Japanese paring chisels she gets 5,000 points and so on all the way down to
*Picks up a loaf of your favorite sourdough bread at the bakery, +10 points
*Asks you if you want another cup of cofee before draining the pot +1 point.

She can lose points in a similar fashion: backs the car over your new mountain bike minus 500 points. Asks you if you are having another beer? minus 5 points. And so on.

YOU on the other hand can only accumulate one point at a time.

Paint her mothers entire apartment, one point.
Take her to Jamaica for a week, one point.
Buy her a sweet card saying "I love you", one point.
Forget to say 'thank you' when she passes you the jam at breakfast, minus one point. There goes all that hard work painting her mom's house.

It's like that. Don't believe me, see for yourself. You may never have noticed it before.

That's based on one aw-shit cancels 62 attaboys, which has roots in bibical times or earlier. ;)

True. it's just that we can only garner the attaboys one at a time, whereas they can rack em up.

Yours is a lot shorter and more likely to be made into a bumper sticker and therefore remembered.

Aren't you a little young to remember biblical times xo?

Nah...people keep knocking on his door on Saturday mornings and reminding him of them.