punching your weight

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At some friends' house, I commented that every time I date a girl far better looking than me, I get into trouble. "You gotta punch your weight," I observed. "Or at least not go up more than a couple of weight classes."

I was handed a magazine and told to find a woman I thought was a realistic level of pretty. I blew past all the supermodels and settled on a modestly attractive brunette in a pharmaceuticals ad. "Here," I said. "Above average looking, but not unattainably so."

Turns out it was Jennifer Garner. Oops.

And this, ladies, nicely illustrates how men's capacity for delusion is utterly beyond containment. If it's any consolation, my delusions were torn and mangled on the spot.