The secret isn’t much of a secret. Guys really are lousy at relationships. This is a group of people to whom romance is both hard to spell and hard to understand. They get brought up in an environment where they’re supposed to be macho. They think they’re supposed to eat flowers, not give them. Then there’s the kind who doesn’t understand adult toys and the use of furniture.
The Nice Klutz, explained
Another variety is the Nice Klutz, who means well but is probably an endangered species because they’re both nice and klutzy. The klutz, however, has a good side. He doesn’t drag his knuckles along the ground much at all. Many can even form sentences all by themselves. He’ll be very appreciative of your great new dress while spilling red wine on it or gallantly risking his life with the safety-type corkscrew. Everything else in the restaurant may even survive this encounter.
The klutz is a sort of hybrid of oversized puppy and Rube Goldberg-like game like Mousetrap. Everything is complicated by an endearing series of genuine sitcom moments. Sincere to a fault, his conversation is occasionally stymied by sticking his feet in his mouth up to his elbows.