A friend was complaining that her boyfriend would not say "I love you," even
if explicitly asked to do so.

The only exception, she said, was when they
were in fact in the act of making love.

Then, if asked, he would say the
sacred words.

I suggested that she should not take too much comfort in the exception.

When making love, I explained, men will say anything.

"He'd tell you he's the Easter Bunny if that's what he thinks you want to
hear," I told her.

The conversation rattled on from there.

A couple of
weeks later, she related the following.

"We were in bed, making love. I said, 'Tell me you love me.'

He said, 'I
love you.'

I said 'Tell me you're the Easter Bunny.'

He stopped for a
second, and said, 'I'm the Easter Bunny.'

So I slapped him."

The poor guy
probably still doesn't know what happened.