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"Doesn't she look after you?"

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BasilBabyEater · 13/10/2013 19:45

This was said by an able-bodied adult male colleague to another able-bodied adult male colleague on the latter's biting into what the former felt was an unsatisfactory item of lunch.

"She" presumably, was the latter's wife.

The expectation being that a fully grown man with a wife who is on maternity leave looking after a toddler and a baby, should be concerning herself with the contents of her husband's lunchbox (lunchbox as in food for work, not as in Linford Christie's etc.)

I ignored the wave of contempt that overcame me and carried on with the report I was working on. Grin

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Boosterseattheballcleaner · 13/10/2013 20:44

Gives me the rage, my nan thinks il turn him gay?

"No man should be forced to wash his own clothes, you will make him feel like less of a man"

No I fucking wont.

PenguinsDontEatPancakes · 13/10/2013 20:26

Gaaaah.

Today, DH cooked a big family roast. I did nothing for this particular meal. This was obvious from the fact I was looking after the kids, serving drinks, sitting chatting, etc.

At the end of the meal, both middle aged women thanked me for the lovely lunch. I was most Confused and had to actually point out that I hadn't made it.

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