Men: What Are They Like?

Okay, so I'm not a feminist and I do love my partner, but he does some strange things! For all the women, and men, that have one of their own, I just wanted to compile a list of things that my sometimes better half does that, frankly, I think are a bit weird!! I'm sure you will empathize!

COMPUTER GAMES - They go mad to get a particular computer game for weeks before its due out. It's all they talk about, like you care! Then, they tell you that they have booked the day off work when it comes out, just so that they can play ALL DAY LONG on it!

It gets worse, like tonight with my partner! Its approaching midnight and just as I'm getting ready to go to bed, he suddenly puts on his jacket and announces that he's going to drive to the city to queue in the rain, to get his copy of his reserved game as it comes out at midnight. Mental! Now, okay, if he was 16, I might understand, but he's 23 years old!

Also, I know that now I will not be able to sleep as when he finally gets in, the console will be blaring loudly until dawn as he plays on it through bloodshot eyes. I can forget TV for the next week as well. Then, around a week from now, he will suddenly stop playing on it as he's lost interest after completing it! Craziness!

FOOTBALL - Now, I don't have a problem with men watching football matches on TV or at a stadium, but why O why do they insist on watching it again on the news, and on Match of the Day in the evening. You've already seen the match, you know the score, you know who got fouled so WHY?! Oh, and why do you have to spend half of our Saturday night with friends discussing nothing but football - you did the same last week!

COOKING - It really is nice when men cook for a change... but why does the kitchen look like a cyclone went through it? Women are smart, we wash as we go, we clean the surfaces down after we have cooked and we stack any washing neatly, next to the sink. Men, well, there are food splodges on the ceiling, the sink is piled with dirty pots and they have used the entire contents of the cutlery drawer just to cook a bit of pasta! Then, if we are really unlucky, having cooked some delight for us, they leave the disaster zone for us to sort out. Now I'm not complaining much, but when do you ever wash up after we have cooked?

HOUSEWORK - His idea of clean, and tidy, is your idea of a total mess! Enough said!

LOOKING AFTER THE BABY - Men are genuinely really great at playing with babies and young children (I am resisting temptation to make reference to mental age) however, the other baby-shaped activities are probably best left to us.

Weaning a baby isn't easy, s/he wants milk not orange mush. It is quite a delicate operation each meal time to get my baby, Archie, to have all of his food without too much of a mess. Now, when my partner feeds our baby, he neglects to put a bib on (he doesn't do any washing so it doesn't matter if the food stains) and there are temperature issues (either too hot or too cold).

Does anyone else find that men leave the nappy off for too long when changing the baby, and you end up with wee everywhere?

CONVERSATION - Men do talk about some interesting things, don't get me wrong. It's just when they talk at you about interesting things they have discovered recently, in which you have no interest! My partner likes to inflict upon me, the many 'interesting' articles he reads in his New Scientist and various computer magazines.

Or, if I'm really lucky, he'll share his philosophical views with me! I wouldn't mind, except he's always right, and when I offer my opinions they are always wrong - even though I studied philosophers as part of my Degree!

Well, I think that would conclude the weird and wonderful things that men do for now, though I am sure there are many others. One thing I will say, in the defence of men, I am sure there are just as many things that we do which seem a bit strange!