To get annoyed at Women who are childlike.

[Leena49]

It's driving me crazy this week...
It's my dds birthday next week . My SIL has rung 4 times to ask what to get her for her birthday. We said Julia Donaldson books (because they are easy to find) so she calls back 'I couldn't find any' then we say anything from brave film. So she calls back. 'Argos didn't have anything! I feel like saying. Forget it please!
Colleague at work also driving me mad. What jobs should I do? I tell her then she says she doesn't know whe things usually go so she can't do that job.

I don't understand how women in their late 50s can be so lacking in the ability to think for themselves!

Sometimes, at work, if I can't be bothered to do something, I ask someone to show me how to do it which means that they end up basically doing it for me . Does no one else do this?

We were out walking last weekend. There was a woman in front of us with her DP. Every time they got to the tiniest puddle, she put out her hand for him to help her over it.

You've got your bloody walking boots on woman. Just stomp through it.

Even worse, DH thought it was rather sweet.

My mother is like this. Friends have commented that it's difficult to tell who is the mum and who is the child in our relationship. I'm getting fed up with having to parent her especially as i've got my own little kids to look after.

I have colleagues like this. It makes me want to scream...

Oh goodness, my line manager at work does this. She is an intelligent woman in her fifties, but you always know when she WANTS something, because she will ramp her voice up several octaves and squeak at you in baby talk:

"Chriiiiissssaaaassss - can you pass me that ickle fing, pweeeeeaaassseee".

It is incredibly provoking.

I have got tired of explaining the concept of Google to my friends.

'when you get a chance Morris, can you look up cheap flights for me?' etc.

I don't have my own private internet*

I just have what you have. Look it up! Would you hand me a dictionary and ask me to interpret it for you? You would not.

I make an exception for my grandmother, but the rest of you... let your finger do the walking.

• or Idaho.

My friend invited me to her mum's for lunch. the mum was elderly and had a problem with mobility but had made sandwiches.
Her daughter shouted through to the kitchen "Muuum, you know I hate peppers" and held her plate up until the mum hobbled through, took her plate, removed the peppers then hobbled back.

I hissed at her that she should have dealt with the bloody peppers herself but she made a face at me ffs. she is in her 40s, the mum is in her 70s.

Floradix, I know someone who is like that, but about onions rather than peppers. If a plate is put in front of her with onions on it she starts flapping her hands and screeching.

morriszapp you need www.lmgtfy.com ! :)

She actually did a little stamping thing with her feet MrsMangel. (the daughter- the poor mum could barely lift her feet and her hip was dodgy)

Haha, my DH hates with a vengeance women doing that ickle girl voice. Makes him see red. Perhaps that's why he's with me and my firm yorkshire accent.

I interviewed a woman, about 22 for an entry level position (post graduate) to my company for a professional client facing role last week.

She wasn't really dressed for an interview in such a formal profession, but not the end of the world. Throughout the interview she proceeded to giggle, twirl her hair and put on a little girl voice if she couldnt answer the question "oohh, thats an ickle bit hard". I am visibly pregnant at the moment, although obviously I didnt mention it and she went on completely unsolicited how much she loved little babies because they are so cute and cuddly.

My female junior colleague was interviewing with me (I didnt realise her eyebrows went up that far) and the interviewee said that she wanted to work for me as it was obviously "all girls together" and we could have a good gossip.

As I work in such a male profession and am the most senor woman in my company, I do like support women entering the profession, but honestly. she has a good MSc from a a good university, but she is not doing herself any favours as I really couldn't get past the little girl act.

Apparently she was really surprised not to get the job.

I do hate those women who maintain the "pink princess" mentality well into adulthood when it should have ended at age four. I sick a little in my mouth when I hear of women wanting to be treated like "princesses" or waiting for their "knight in shining armour". Save yourself first ffs.

My Bil is terrible. Whiny voice ( aged 32) says things like " I need my mummy and daddy, I don't want mine to die. Who will look after meeeeeee"?!!
Followed by a sulky face.

This was after a close friend of DH lost his mum to cancer.

Get a bloody grip!!!!!!

"They're not child-like My DD, 21 mo, could find that book. They're idiots"

they're not idiots! we're the idiots because we fall for it and go "oh nevermind I'll do it!"

It really fucking annoys me, I have some rellies who have visited many times, they know which roads around us have on road parking (we don't have our own space) but EVERY time they ring us and ask us "where's the best place to park" - they're not asking which fucking street they are asking us where ON THAT STREET THERE IS A SPACE so they don't have to just drive along it and look! I'm not fecking falling for it and going out and walking along the road to find them one when they would have been parked and in by now if they'ld have got on with it - and it always annoys them that the helpless card doesn't work on me!

I have a girly voice though, I get treated like an idiot. I go treated SO differently professionally when I sort of lost my voice and it went deeper once. I don't put it on.

It's got fuck all to do with being a woman and everything to do with being thick.

HTH.

everything to do with getting other people to do your work more like!

when we married we had elderly people comming from abroad who got themselves about no problem (we sent LOADS of helpful info with our invites!), it was the "where's the best place to park?" lot from 45 mins away who were ringing daily with stupid questions that they could easily have answered themselves by looking at the info we sent! we sent maps and everything!!!!

Argos doesn't sell books.

why didn't she look in a bookshop?

yanbu - i would be annoyed if i had to hand hold a grownup to buy a present!

"why didn't she look in a bookshop?" cause its easier to get the parent to buy it for you, wrap it and put a gift card with your name on it, then you just give them the money (or say you will and forget)

i can't get over the fact she couldn't find a julia donaldson book.

Women who don't 'do' money/finances/mortgages etc aaaaaaaaaaaaH!

DHs who can't find their swimming trunks when they are, where they have lived for the last 8 years!!

Internet banking I could get my head round, but I'm dyslexic and muddle pass codes so I let DH do it. He's just much quicker.

I have a girly voice. IT'S A CURSE AND AN AFFLICTION. Also afflicted with kooky looks, and a hair twisting habit.

Luckily I counter it with saying CUNT a lot and being stridently feminist. But my nature is kooky.

Crunchyfrog.