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11-01-2013 12:31 PM |
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Originally Posted by tweezers74
(Post 7734071)
Yes! I had a good friend of mine that told me something I would never forget. He told me men only concentrate on one thing at a time. (Of course, they can do more than one thing at a time but most of the time, their MO). He said women make grocery lists. Men brush their teeth and run out of toothpaste. They go to the store and get some. He told me that's why women fail miserably when trying to ask their husbands to do something while they are in the middle of something else. Won't compute and will forget by the time he is done. Ask when he is doing nothing or in between something and 99.9% of the time, he will complete the task. Helped me understand your species a lot. ;)
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This isn't always the case...
I got my wife to start utilizing grocery lists (granted, I got the process from my mom, but still...) because she would routinely NOt get what we needed, and buy crap we didn't. I plan ahead--when we're running low on something, I put it on her list, or go buy it myself if it's "guy stuff" because I know she won't have a clue what I'm talking about, even if I put the name of the product, and what the packaging looks like on her list. And I multi-task like a mo fo. I find it hard to do only one thing at a time; usually, at work I'm running multiple projects, at home I work on at least 2-3 things at a time (while dinner's prepping, I clean up something, or do some laundry, etc, and before you give me crap for doing "woman work," I was a single dad for a while, and prefer doing most things myself because I know I'll do them right). My wife, on the other hand, can NOT multi-task. Whatever she's doing needs her absolute, undivided attention, or she'll forget it. And she's forgetful as all hell. I've been bugging her for 6 months to go get the part number for the seatbelt in her son's Honda (can't find the right one online for some reason). He starts driving with a permit next week--we NEED that seat belt to be functional, so I finally told her outright yesterday, "GO DO IT." And instead of getting the part number for the part where the buckle snaps in, she had them order the entire seat belt assembly...$300 opposed to what would have likely been $35-40.
Damn, that kinda turned into a hell of a rant...soryy. Just hate when women stereotype us men. Those of my generation are not like guys of yesteryear--most of us are pretty damn self-sufficient. And I've noticed more and more women who...aren't.
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