THINGS I DON’T UNDERSTAND ABOUT MEN
Before you read this (note to my love: stop while you’re ahead, go watch soccer or something), you need to know that I really do like men. They’re gorgeous and attractive (I’m talking about my own. Okay, if you’re still reading this, time to leave for real this time), but there are a few things I will never ever understand.
1. hanging your jacket over a dining table chair
Not only my hubby does this. And every man I saw before him (obviously not too many) and my father is guilty of doing it too. As soon as they enter the door, they dump their jackets on the arm of a chair. Probably because they want nothing more than to head over to us as quickly as possible. Well isn’t that sweet..
2. leaving things on your staircase
Pretty sure you know what I mean. You’ve neatly folded up all your laundry but you don’t want to carry everything upstairs yet, so you leave it on your staircase hoping the first person to go upstairs will take it with them. This never happens. The first time I ever brought this up in a discussion, he told me he wasn’t sure if it needed to go upstairs or stay downstairs. I mean, why would I bring everything up to take everything back down again? Then he said he could bring it upstairs but he has no idea where I planned to put everything. I guess I can’t prove him wrong.
3. leaving dirty dishes on the kitchen counter
Even when your dish washer is completely deserted, plates always end up on your kitchen counter rather than inside the dish washer. Crazy right?
4. toilet paper a mile high
Look, sometimes we complain that there are certain people who never restock the toilet paper and leave you with one dangling piece to work with. Annoying, I know. But then there’s the other extreme. It’s like men decorate toilets with toilet paper. “Better safe than sorry.” It just looks so messy.
5. buying cheap brands
And when I say cheap brands, I mean not buying the house brand but going for a cheaper alternative. My own hubby doesn’t do this, but my father is definitely one of those men as are the partners of many women I know. Nothing makes them happier then spending half an hour at a random grocery store buying the cheapest of the cheapest. Why? No one knows. At least I don’t.
6. The wrong laundry basket
Most of the women I know have a specific washing regime they stick to. I personally have four. One for colored, one for white, one for delicates and one for clean laundry. My friend K has a laundry basket for her towels and then one for everything else and my colleague D has one for softer toned colors, bold colors and one for wash that shouldn’t be washed too warm. And yes, we all have men who are incapable of separating everything into their appropriate baskets. Mine always puts all the dirty laundry in a pile in front of the baskets. “I don’t want to screw up your system.” Alright, okay, I’ll give him that.
Okay, I’ll make sure to write a list of things men don’t understand about us women. I want to warn you before hand, it’ll be a lot longer.
