Arrrgghh...why can't men see what's in front of their face?

Fuzzy_Duck

My partner did this even when I didn't live with him. I generally knew the answer too!

barbiedoll

To be fair, and in response to the posters who state that this isn't a "gender-specific issue", I confess that I'm terrible at finding my phone and keys.

What's worse, is that they are ALWAYS somewhere inside my vast handbag, which is black, with a black lining (why don't they make handbag linings in a lighter colour?) and I'm often to be found, looking like a farmer with his hand up a cow's backside, rummaging deep down inside my bag, searching frantically for one of the 3 phones that I'm currently carrying around (2 are for work).

I always put my car keys in the front pocket of my bag. Except for when I put them in my coat pocket. Or in the zipped inner compartment of my bag. And wherever I think they are, they're inevitably somewhere else. Cue lots of sweary, heart-stopping moments, standing at my car door, balancing my huge bag on my knee, digging around for said keys.

To those who think that I'm being sexist.....I didn't say that men were stupid or inferior. I said that they often can't see what's in front of them. Which is true!

System

I've been known to lose my glasses

Only to realise i am wearing them.

Amusingly this is something my dear grandad did quite often, it was always funny when my nan used to tell him "you're wearing them dear":rotfl:

catkins

I am pretty organised but OH isn't. At least once a week we have the "have you seen my car keys" conversation. He misplaces other things too but car keys is the main one. It drives me mad.


My keys are either hanging on the hook on the key holder or in my handbag. The key holder is in the porch so easy to place keys there as you walk indoors. Far too difficult for OH. His keys can be anywhere from the kitchen, bathroom, bedroom, in a pocket etc etc. It drives me crazy

Gra76

Mr_Toad wrote: »

She loses her keys most mornings and yet manages to always know where the remote key finder is.

Does not compute.........but what do I know I'm only a bloke.

You could attach the key to the remote. Problem solved.

The remote lives in a drawer in the kitchen, it's the law thay if it's taken out of the drawer it goes back in afterwards. She presses a button on the remote and it activates a noisy little fob attached to the keys. Follow the noise, find the keys. Winner!

Maybe I should just look after ALL the keys and make it easier for her?!

Pearlstar

My OH is mostly incapable of remembering to turn off the house alarm on the rare days he gets up first, our neighbours must love us!

Slinky

My husband was looking for nuts this morning to go with his lunch. 'Where did you put the nuts they're not in the cupboard.' Some frantic opening of other cupboard doors followed, then I looked in the cupboard they should have been in and handed the packets to him. They were right in front of him but we'd bought them from Sainsbury instead of Tesco this week, so I think his brain didn't compute they were nuts!

Carmina-Piranha_2

Spendless wrote: »

The book 'why men don't listen and women can't read maps' suggests it's to do with differences in the brain.

I can't do either