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I want to find the "Pathetic women" thread

95 replies

CountessDracula · 21/09/2007 09:53

It was such fun
dh adn I wwere talking this am about pathetic women

you know the sort
Can't drive on motorways
or in London (there are dragons on the roads you know)
Only drive automatics
Don't know where the stopcock is (or even what a stopcock is)
Won't open the door if dh not in

etc

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CountessDracula · 21/09/2007 17:03

Also driving through Richmond park it si deer central

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Mercy · 21/09/2007 17:06

lol!

dh once hit a pheasant (he thought it was already dead as it was lying in the middle of hte road - then we heard/felt a thud)

giraffeski · 21/09/2007 17:16

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giraffeski · 21/09/2007 17:17

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vacua · 21/09/2007 17:19

I'm pathetic about running over animals, will hold my hands up to that happily. I also have a Severe Pathetic Parallel Parking Disorder although am overcoming this with surround parking sensors. No qualms about driving anywhere.

My pet pathetic woman peeve is the whole 'I will have to ask my husband' thing, fair enough if you are contemplating selling up and moving to Patagonia to sink your family savings into a guanaco conservation project or something - some decisions should definitely be made jointly - but whether or not to get a part-time job/meet a friend for coffee/have a manicure? WTF? Do these husbands really care or are the women getting some weird kick out of infantilising themselves?

iota · 21/09/2007 17:19

there are plenty of deer roaming in Ashridge ( nr Berkhamstead)..... one went over the bonnet of my dh's car a couple of yrs ago - it sprang out of no-where apparently

Rantmum · 21/09/2007 17:23

We had male decorators in a couple of years ago and while they were doing some work upstairs, and my ds (then about 9mths) was napping, I was up a ladder sanding down window frames with an electric sander, then painting them and then I went outside to wash the car. One of the was clearly "shocked" that a woman was both willing and able to perform these complex tasks as his wife "couldn't" do them, which made me wonder if my attitude was unusual(I assumed that most young mothers found themselves doing all manner of tasks while they were at home with a baby - clearly I was wrong). I also wondered if my husband was onto a really good deal with me...

hoxtonchick · 21/09/2007 17:37

god, i love driving, anywhere will do.

am not good a light bulbs. weird.

ggglimpopo · 21/09/2007 17:38

I have had an expensive watch repaired TWICE and been presented with an obscene bill each time which I meekly paid.

It ihas stopped again and it needs to go back and whythefuck should I pay for it..... so I have asked dh to take it back

Other than that I am normally very brave.

hunkermunker · 21/09/2007 17:39

I don't get the "excitement" factor of using a clutch.

iota · 21/09/2007 17:39

hunker, you are such a girl

vacua · 21/09/2007 17:40

ohhhhh you have reminded me - I'm scared to change light bulbs if I can't tell whether or not the light is switched on.

But this is surely a thread on which to mock other women for their patheticnosity not a thread on which to expose one's own weaknesses?

ggglimpopo · 21/09/2007 17:41

I have a friend whose husband holds the cheque book and writes all the cheques for her, and says no when he disagrees with the purchase/cause/whatever. They both work full time.

He has banned her from Zara "because the music gives him a headache"

FluffyMummy123 · 21/09/2007 17:42

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vacua · 21/09/2007 17:42

he must be amazing in bed . . . or your friend is some sort of 24/7 masochistic freak!

Twiglett · 21/09/2007 17:43

I have absolutely NO IDEA where our stopcock is

but then again the plumber couldn't find it either

iota · 21/09/2007 17:44

our stopcock is under the kitchen sink - isn't that where they usually are?

Twiglett · 21/09/2007 17:45

usually yes

hunkermunker · 21/09/2007 17:46

We have two kitchen sinks. I wonder where our stopcock is?

Iota - yes, I am a girl

vacua · 21/09/2007 17:46

When I bought my house (a crumbly old place) the surveyor said 'consideration should be given to providing an internal stop-cock' so mine is obviously outside somewhere. In 12 years or so I've never needed to know exactly where it is, workmen can usually find it ok.

ggglimpopo · 21/09/2007 17:47

Vacua - do you mean the zara-banner? If so, I mightily doubt he is a raging bull betwixt ze sheets. But you never know

Shall I ask her?

hunkermunker · 21/09/2007 17:48

PMSL - yes, GGG - "So, you know your DH has banned you from Zara, I was wondering, do you put up with it because he's hung like a blue whale?"

vacua · 21/09/2007 17:49

yes pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeease

I really do wonder why people stay in relationships like that, but that is probably why I am single innit.

Twiglett · 21/09/2007 17:49

do blue whales have big penises then? (peni?)

and how d'ya know mouse?

Tinker · 21/09/2007 17:52

Oh, I love driving, will drive anywhere as well.

But I do hate ringing people to sort stuff out - fence man, boiler man, solicitors etc. Just find it tedious and become PW in order to avoid it.