Distraction/Reaction

Last week while watching "O' Brother Where Art Thou" I noticed something I'd never caught onto before. My observation was that Pete, Everett, and Delmar run off into the woods after some loose women even though they have a very limited time to reach the "treasure" before it is unreachable. This presents a shift in priorities; their actions suggest that women, who they don't even know, are more important than large sums of money. If this is the case, why didn't the trio bust off the farm for the prospect of finding a mate before Everett mentioned the treasure? In fact, if Pete and Delmar truly valued the opposite sex so highly, wouldn't they have been willing to leave with Everett if they had known his real reason for escaping? I contend that in truth, Pete and Delmar do value money more than women. The real reason why they went off course so easily is that men are distracted easily; and among all the distractions that men have, the strongest is the prospect of meeting a woman. The peculiar aspect of this distraction is that when men think about it logically, they can't understand why they abandoned their original goal for the girl. This is the subject of conversation between Delmar and Everett at the restaurant the following day.