A minor rant ----
Discussion
Hackney said:
New POD said:
P Nuts said:
Cant u do it for me?....
I'm 120 miles away. That would be f
king stupid. Try again?
She said: You'll have to do that.
(NOT a question...a statement of fact..)
I said: Well I can't do anything til Friday. If you want to use the car, you should check the pressures first.
She said: Well I won't use it then.
I said: It will take you 5 mins to check the pressures and 15 mins to take it up the road
She said: I'm not taking it to a garage, they'll start bull s
tting me and charge me for 4 brand new tyres, and you'll come home and get grumpy.I said: What sort of role model are you giving to our daughter ? You need to show her that women can sort out stuff like this, and don't have to rely on blokes for everything.
(and this is what has really pissed me off)
She said: I'm giving her a really good role model, the one that encourages her to find a bloke who sorts stuff out like that and doesn't expect her to do it herself.....
I Said: I'll sort it out, but She'll be helping and if I have to get an new tyre she can come and get it with me....
FFS I hope she was joking, but I know she's not.
The Moose said:
that's just tickled me!She sounds bloody useless!!
I'm going to have to make it clear that I am not capable any longer, of cleaning, or washing up, or ironing, or hanging up washing, or anything that is traditional woman's work. And if sent shopping I will deliberately buy beer, and forget the food.
New POD said:
Mound Dawg said:
So she's useless at this sort of stuff so she needs a man to do it.
So does mine.
They are both pretending to be incompetent. So does mine.
taters said:
New POD said:
Mound Dawg said:
So she's useless at this sort of stuff so she needs a man to do it.
So does mine.
They are both pretending to be incompetent. So does mine.
Mine insists that she can't possibly fit the baby seat in the car. This is nonsense.
It annoys me greatly that she places so low a value on my disdain that she'll happily feign total dribbling incompetence to avoid a small chore.
So I pile on the disdain with a disproportionate relish. One of us will break, one day.
It annoys me greatly that she places so low a value on my disdain that she'll happily feign total dribbling incompetence to avoid a small chore.
So I pile on the disdain with a disproportionate relish. One of us will break, one day.
Very easily to generalise, but women's car knowledge and driving/mechanical ability varies widely - same as men's!
I work in a petrol station. One of my colleagues, a single mum in her early 40's, refuses to check her own tyres. She actually takes it to her garage, and gets "the boys" to check it for her. She plays on her lack of knowledge.
My missus, on the other hand, does everything for herself, and is possibly a better driver than me - she's certainly better at parking.
We recently bought a 7 metre coachbuilt motorhome. I leave it to her to drive it down the narrow lanes, as the size of the thing scares me a little. Her ex-husband owned a coach company, and she used to drive 52-seaters.
I work in a petrol station. One of my colleagues, a single mum in her early 40's, refuses to check her own tyres. She actually takes it to her garage, and gets "the boys" to check it for her. She plays on her lack of knowledge.
My missus, on the other hand, does everything for herself, and is possibly a better driver than me - she's certainly better at parking.
We recently bought a 7 metre coachbuilt motorhome. I leave it to her to drive it down the narrow lanes, as the size of the thing scares me a little. Her ex-husband owned a coach company, and she used to drive 52-seaters.
SpeckledJim said:
It annoys me greatly that she places so low a value on my disdain that she'll happily feign total dribbling incompetence to avoid a small chore.
To be fair, this is not the sole preserve of the female gender. I may or may not have feigned total incompetence at one or more of the following tasks:Cooking
Cleaning
Washing
Ironing
I'd quite happily put up with the occasional car cretinism if it means I don't have to risk burning a hole in my shirts.
funkyrobot said:
Anyone else think this is just an advert thread?
Because I mentioned Paul ? He's a one man band that 99.999999999% of PHers will be too far away to use, so not really. If it gets him any sales please let me know and I'll ask him for a discount, next time I need his services. He's the only tyre fitter I know who knows how to use a torque wrench and makes an attempt to find out the correct setting, so that should be enough of a recommendation.
My other half had to be persuaded to check her own tyres via the petrol station air pumps. She can do it fine after i showed her what to do but it was daunting for her at the thought of messing things up.
Things went bad after her sister managed to empty all the air out her one tyre when she tried to check her tyres. (i think she used the wrong end of the pressure guage, the one for deflating)
I explained that she just had to give things a go and stop thinking negative all the time!
She is fine now and has picked up wee bits of car knowledge from me over the years. She does not get under pressure now from main dealers if they try and sell her stuff.
Her car was in for it's yeary warranty check and they tried to sell her front discs and pads by saying car was dangerous and has to get done asap, she said that she will get them done elsewhere as she does not have to use genuine vauxhall parts and her warranty would be intact as brakes etc are not covered.
I bet some women would have thought "oh no its dangerous and better pay full price to have them done now".
Things went bad after her sister managed to empty all the air out her one tyre when she tried to check her tyres. (i think she used the wrong end of the pressure guage, the one for deflating)
I explained that she just had to give things a go and stop thinking negative all the time!
She is fine now and has picked up wee bits of car knowledge from me over the years. She does not get under pressure now from main dealers if they try and sell her stuff.
Her car was in for it's yeary warranty check and they tried to sell her front discs and pads by saying car was dangerous and has to get done asap, she said that she will get them done elsewhere as she does not have to use genuine vauxhall parts and her warranty would be intact as brakes etc are not covered.
I bet some women would have thought "oh no its dangerous and better pay full price to have them done now".
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