Women have lots of good points. It would be very difficult to live without them and I don’t necessarily want to give it a shot. They have some unusual traits but we do our best to be understanding. We comfort them when they are sick or in pain even though they have never had the man-flu so they can’t possibly know what it’s like to be really sick.
Some of the things they do confuse me and I have just resigned myself to the fact that I will never understand most of them.
Shopping requires stamina
For example, when a woman wants to buy something she will walk a thousand miles and go into hundreds of shops. She’ll pick up dozens of items that she neither needs nor wants and she will feel them, squeeze them, turn them over and then put them back where she got them. It’s only after she has searched every shop in the city that she will return to the first shop she went into and buy the damn thing there.
But that’s ok, they probably enjoy it and that’s their business. But there’s something else that drives me to distraction and there is no sense to it.
Multi-tasking isn’t as easy as it sounds
You’re standing in a queue for the check-out in your local shop. The queue is moving along nicely and your turn is coming, there’s only one woman left in front of you. She’s up next and she places her bits and pieces on the counter. Then she puts her handbag on the counter as well and goes hunting in it for her purse. Then she takes out the purse and opens that and has to go rooting for her money. There are other things in the way, scraps of paper, coupons, receipts and God knows what else so they have to come out too. Then she wants to use up her change so she’s like an Archaeologist on an important dig and she goes excavating for one cent and five pieces. It has to be the exact amount. As soon as the money is handed over, the purse has to be back filled and then returned to the handbag.
All through this silliness you have to stand there and resist the urge to kill. Why is it not possible to have all this done while they are waiting in the queue? They’re always barking on about how well they can multi task but yet they can’t queue and count at the same time.