Today I'm feeling a bit:
SIMILARITIES..
A lot of the time, I like to point out the differences between the US and the UK.
Today, I'm going to list off a few SIMILARITIES.
Some GUY things they ALL DO, NO MATTER WHAT country they're from, or in which country they live.
1. If, when in the supermarket, you ask the guy to "Oh, run grab a toilet duck for the downstairs toilet, will you?" He's NOT going to take the time to READ the names, LOOK at the colors, THINK about which one must smell like what, and therefore would be the BEST. NO. He's going to grab the MOST MASCULINE TOILET DUCK he can find, in the 5 seconds it takes his eyes to tell his brain: "Yep, that's what I was sent for."
2. Guys don't know where anything goes in the kitchen. Even if said item is repeatedly stored there.
3. All guys refer to skirts OR dresses as the same thing, which they call "that - uhm - skirt - dress - thing."
4. When we have more than the requisite pair of tennis shoes, and one pair of dress shoes, guys think we have "too many shoes." Not a single one of them can comprehend that different shoes go with different outfits, sometimes even different moods, and that women have catagories for their shoes. Well, our gay guy friends understand, THANK GOD!
5. Rules for purses and bags: See #4.
6. Guys think they can wash OUR clothes like they do THEIR clothes, which means dumping everything that's dirty NO MATTER WHAT IT IS into the washer, splashing it with soap --they've never heard of fabric softener, or the delicate cycle-- and "lettin' 'er rip." OUR laundry isn't like THEIR laundry. This is NOT taken into consideration when they decide to "help us out" and "put some clothes in the wash."
I think six items is plenty enough to illustrate my point that "guy" as a species, is universal. Now I'd better get back to the laundry, I have a bunch of MY stuff I need to wash, before it's manhandled.. ;)
I swear, I do some of these things. I must be part guy :p
Ahhhhh, I taught you right. After all, washing and drying clothes is an
art not a skill. I was worried you would pick up your daddy's washer/dryer
habits. You know, everything that goes in the washer MUST go in the dryer
too.
Well, you know, if you want something done "right", do it yourself! Your
standards aren't his standards, always :)
1. It was an arbitrary choice out of all of them, since the previous one
wasn't there.
2. After living in the house for 7 years, I no longer know where things are
supposed to go anymore. I am accepting this.
3. Women's clothes are blurring the line with things that look like skirts,
but aren't, or are sewn in. See Ubiquitous Asda/Walmart Dress.
4. Black / brown shoes, trainers, walking shoes. Mainly differentiated by
the soles.
5. Bags are classified by the amount they can carry, and what the pockets
are like, and if they have webbing around the back to stuff stuff in.
Rip-stop nylon. And what features they have to make sure it fits to your
back right.
6. I know what fabric conditioner is. However, most weeks two loads would
have been sufficient, with an occasional delicates load when unavoidable.
But best not to buy delicates, really.
Awww, you're going through a transition too :)
Hea Hea, belly up to the bar, transitions for EVERYONE!! ON THE HOUSE!!
