that women do

Sometimes men just don’t understand women. You’ll know what I’m talking about when you look at the following list. Let’s face it, we’re nice but slightly odd creatures.

turning down the music when parking in reverse

I bet you do this. You have your radio jamming out your favorite song, volume turned up high but at the very moment you switch to reverse you turn it down. Men don’t get this. I think it’s just a logic thing to do. Because when you hit something and hear it you can stop.

pulling faces in the mirror

We only really see it when a friend is standing next to us when looking in the mirror. She looks totally different. Chin goes up, nose in the air, eyes open wide and for a nanosecond we see the ‘situation face’ check up. Then you catch yourself doing exactly the same thing.

No stock (mainly on tampons)

Men stock up, a lot. Twenty tubes of toothpaste (coupon sale) are too much for us. First of all it disorganizes our closets and cabinets is they’re too full. And second, it may be cheaper in the long run, but you spend more in one go, weighing heavily on your shopping budget. So a no go.

But because of this we always run short, usually on tampons. Even at the office we have to deal with this problem. Once we filled a little Chanel bag with tampons. But they too will run out and we’ll be off where we started.

moving your hands when blow drying your hair

We don’t know why but we always move our hands in a semiprofessional way when blow-drying our hair. Absolutely no idea.

never a charger at hand

The first question in our office is: Does anybody have a charger? The answer from most colleagues is no. But then a perky intern will pull one from her bag. Hurrah, but one is not enough for all of us. Thank goodness we’re right next to the men’s office, who all have their own charger. What would we do without you?

scale capers

A normal man just get onto a scale, looks and accepts. We go to the bathroom first, make sure our hair is dry; we remove belts, rings and even tampons before carefully stepping on. (I always hang onto the cabinet and let go when both feet are on). We do all this for the best possible result.

not order desert but eating off someone else’s plate

Another oddity. ‘No thanks. I’ll just have a mint tea.’ Only to grab the extra spoon and say: ‘oh all right. I’ll just have one bite.’ And we end up finishing all the plates on the table. The next morning we stare angrily at the scale. How could this be? We didn’t even have desert!