Whatever was on leading up to "Lost." I don't even remember what the show was. Doesn't really matter.

On comes another car commercial, and I thought to myself, "Man, that's ugly." A second or two later, my girlfriend then said what I was thinking, with emphasis, "Oh, that's just ugly!" Or something similar to that. I didn't have notepad handy to get the quote exactly right.

I turned to her and smiled, and said, "I was thinking the same thing. I mean ..."

And she finished the sentence for me. "I know, that outfit the women is wearing is hideous." (Again, I'm only confident that her quote accurately portrays her intent, not her actual words.)

I smiled and even laughed a little. Her return look asked the question, "What are laughing at?"

The commericial was for a Toyota Prius, one of those hybrid cars that is designed more to make people feel like they're helping the environment and less to look, well, like a cool car.

"The ugly, hideous thing I was talking about was the car," I replied. We both laughed simultaneously.

It was funny because it was so cliché. It could have been a sitcom moment. You know, one of those episodes that goes through all sorts of contortions to demonstrate that men and women can look at the same situation and see — whether it be clothes or an automobile — something quite different from one another.

Not that there's anything wrong with that.

And not that we didn't know that already.

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