Kiss the whip

[trixtah]

I really don't know what some women are on. Or some men, for that matter. So, I think I've mentioned  (once or twice) that Canberra is somewhat retro in its attitudes (although the ACT government is currently drafting same-sex civil union legislation, whee!), but I still find myself amazed at some things.

Like women who pick up their hubbies from work. In all the time I've been here, I think I have seen ONE man matter-of-factly get into the passenger side. The norm is for the wife to drive into town, and dutifully get out of the driver's seat and trot round to sit on the passenger side while hubby gets behind the wheel. Even in the last couple of weeks, when there has been abominable weather, torrential rain and thunderstorms, the poor women still got out and ran through the rain to the passenger's side. So they both got needlessly wet - she didn't need to get rained on at all, and he got wetter through waiting for her to get out of the car. All of the couples I saw on those rainy days did the same thing.

Presumably, if she's capable of driving the car into town, she's capable of driving it out of town? They (the wives) can't all hate driving so much, can they? Otherwise, why the fuck do they do it? Why do the men (seem to) expect it?

[cue muttering as to how strange straight people can be]

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[saluqi.livejournal.com]

Just like Dicken's Christmas ghost, LJ keeps locating people from the internet past. I'm Anita from boychicks - we met a couple of times in Melbourne in the mid 90's.

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[damned-colonial.livejournal.com]

Oh, hello! I did faintly wonder whether I knew you when I saw you on trixtah's comments page a while back. Of course I'm completely failing to put a face to your name, but I definitely remember your name from the best part of a decade ago, so I'm going to claim half a point for that ;)