Women can't read maps and men can't get interested in headboards

[deadpan]

During the hilarious Dinner ladies series written by badly missed Victoria Wood, Dolly says "women can't read maps and men can't get interested in headboards".
What can't the men/man/son in your houses get "interested" in. In my case it's the washing machine......

My OH loves a good washing machine and has a collection of hoovers and other dust gathering appliances. Me, I am the map person and own all the tools. He does do the hedge though, which I can't due to an old elbow injury. Otherwise I would.

Bathrooms. Can’t see dirt if it’s occurred in a bathroom. Pretty good everywhere else, but not bathroom.
Laundry labels. I had to stop using the shared laundry hamper as he’d neither leave it alone nor read a label.
Aesthetics. All space is available for shoving things. An empty space is a wasted opportunity.

Obviously I’m unable to see the things I can’t see. Some of them may matter but I wouldn’t know.

I can read a map! I even did cartography as part of my degree (not cartography!). DH is in charge of laundry, but now the dc are teenagers he has no idea whose clothes are whose when sorting the dry clothes into piles.

Well I can certainly read maps! Men say we can't because we're prepared to ASK for directions, which they aren't!
Afaic what men (or boys anyway) can't get interested in is how to drive properly and safely. All they're interested in is telling me & my bff that WE can't drive!
(I know - controversial.)

DH can put a wash on, get it out but the way he puts it on the airer makes my teeth itch. It's like he can't see that if clothes are overlapping They're not going to dry😮‍💨

My exH was/is useless with anything technical or practical, "no interest or aptitude for those subjects" would surely have been on his school report!

I'm the technology geek, never happier than when coaxing a reluctant bit of kit back into life, and fine to try my hand at mending most things. The first time he took me to meet his parents I fixed their hoover - it was just a part had come adrift, somehow, in the brush bit. I just manoeuvred (shoved) it back into place. They were the sort of family who would "get someone in" to fix things 🤷🏼‍♀️.

He wasn't bad at maps - but I was better - teenage years spent youth hosteling before mobile phones.

What he WAS very good at was ironing and I was happy to leave him to it.

I sometimes miss having ironed clothes 😆

Shopping. Cooking. Washing. Ironing. Bit of a hunter gatherer neanderthal man.

We didn't live in London but visited back when AtoZ ruled. I drove inside North Circular Mrs Shed navigated.
I enjoy ironing.

I don't do any housework. I pay someone else to do the cleaning part and husband tidies up.

I don't load or unload the washing machine or the dishwasher. I couldn't care less how dirty dishes go into the washer or how clean clothes come out of it and get hung up. He makes a big fuss about how both are done so he can sort both out.

Husband does all his own ironing and most of mine. In over 40 years I've ironed one shirt for him. [It happened once on a very specific occasion]

I work full time- he's retired. I stopped doing any cooking or food shopping when he gave up work.

He's useless at reading maps, I'm really good. He's a better, more confident driver than me.

mine has a serious interest in headboards - he chose all our furniture!

We are both rubbish at maps but I am excellent at technology and he is a fantastic driver.

He does not see full rubbish bins or cat vomit on the floor and if he stands in it he just stands on one leg shrieking until I clean it up.

My Dd had never been in a supermarket, so after Dm died my sister was getting his shopping for him, even though he still worked and had his own car.
She thought he might want to do it himself so he could see all the different choices he could have.
So, she walked round with him and at the end he said “Very interesting, here’s my list for tomorrow”.

I love maps, I spend hours looking at Open Street Map.

DH is a lot more interested in gardening than I am. Although that isn't hard as I have zero interest in it.

I love a map whereas DH is totally incapable of reading even the simplest map.

God Victoria wood is a miss.

DH: no interest in instructions (they are just there to fill space on a leaflet or box to make it look less boring), seasonality/finesse in the garden (if there's a power tool in his hands then everything gets pruned to 6 inches high) or any kind of interior design/decor (he'd happily still be in 80's black, chrome and pastel heaven).

ME: no interest in anything to do with the car (maintenence, insurance/MOT, cleaning), sound/picture quality of anything or completing the laundry cycle (will happily wash and hang out but unless he gets it in and puts it away, our wardrobes would be empty...so he took over the washing).