OT - why is it that men can't find things?

poet_kelly
on 10/12/11 12:16 pm - OH
Wow, that would be annoying.  I wonder why they do it.  They do not do that here.  At least not at any stores that I go to regularly.

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Dave Chambers
on 10/12/11 12:54 pm - Mira Loma, CA

The markets do it here so you end up buying more. The more products you look through (trying to find the ones on your shopping list0, you'll likely end up buying more items than on your list.  And yes, it's annoying, at the least. DAVE

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poet_kelly
on 10/12/11 12:57 pm - OH
They've probably done research to determine that most customers do end up buying more that way, but it would have the opposite effect on me.  If I'm having a really hard time finding something, I'm more likely to just decide to forget it and leave without it.

View more of my photos at ObesityHelp.com          Kelly

Please note: I AM NOT A DOCTOR.  If you want medical advice, talk to your doctor.  Whatever I post, there is probably some surgeon or other health care provider somewhere that disagrees with me.  If you want to know what your surgeon thinks, then ask him or her.    Check out my blog.

 

SweetGirl11
on 10/12/11 6:53 pm, edited 10/12/11 6:54 pm
Kelly, I don't have an answer for you, but whatever it is, it must be the same reason that my hubby smears tomato sauce or other equally icky stuff on the refrigerator door handles, cabinet door handles, and kitchen faucet and does NOT see it.   :)

ETA:  I also found spaghetti sauce smeared on the front door.  I haven't figured that one out yet!

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poet_kelly
on 10/13/11 1:25 am - OH
Once I found jelly smeared all over the refrigerator door handle.  I did wonder how he managed to do that and didn't notice.  I mean, he had to have had it all over his hand, right?  Wouldn't you notice if your hand was covered with jelly?

View more of my photos at ObesityHelp.com          Kelly

Please note: I AM NOT A DOCTOR.  If you want medical advice, talk to your doctor.  Whatever I post, there is probably some surgeon or other health care provider somewhere that disagrees with me.  If you want to know what your surgeon thinks, then ask him or her.    Check out my blog.

 

SweetGirl11
on 10/14/11 5:47 pm
EXACTLY!!!  Sometimes I feel like it is just that he doesn't care.  I gave up saying anything.  I just wipe up the messes.

Michelle    (OH member since 2004 - new user name)

HW 285 / SW 270 / GW 140 / LW 135 / CW 185

RNY 6/8/2009  
Starting size 26/28, now size 12/14

"Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever."  -Hebrews 13:8

slim2bsoon
on 10/12/11 11:45 pm - MD
Kelly and others:
Thanks for the laugh this dreary morning in Baltimore.  I experience the same with my husband and son.  Now I pretend I don't hear them when they ask where something is.  Somewhere along the way, someone mentioned 'societal norms'.  I constantly ask myself how it is that I've allowed these habits to develop in my son when I am fully aware of them?  The answer is that he is just so good at wearing me down, he's 17, the third child and I just get tired of trying to out think him so that he develops that attention to detail 'on his own'.  Men are fascinating creatures.
Jackie
Paul C.
on 10/13/11 12:47 am - Cumming, GA
I guess the answer to this thread is "If you don't like the way we do it, then do it yourself".

Yes guys have peculiar behaviors but no more than women do.  Example is my wife *****es that I don't put my dishes in the dishwasher.  Well I used to but I never did it her way so she would simply unload everything and reload it.  As a guy that is not very efficient so I save her the time of unloading it when she loads it .

I know for me many of these situations arise simply because at that time there is something else going on that I feel is more important, so my focus is not on the task at hand.

Also when we are driving please refrain from telling us where to go, when to put a blinker on and where and how we should park.
Paul C.
First 5K 9/27/20 46:32 - 11 weeks post op  (PR 28:55 8/15/11)
First 10K 7/04/2011 1:03      
      First 15K 9/18/2011 1:37
First Half Marathon 10/02/2011 2:27:44 (
PR 2:24:35)   
First Half Ironman 9/30/12 7:32:04
MedPig
on 10/13/11 5:00 am
Speaking for most guys, we believe the uterus contains some sort of tracking device.  We DON'T see things, all the time, and you ladies come around the corner, don't even look, and land your hand right on it...

Google "Tool Blindness", that's the only other idea I have... 
      
Paul C.
on 10/13/11 6:03 am - Cumming, GA
I thought "Tool Blindness" is what women get when they get pissed that we can't do anything right and decide to start withholding the love!
Paul C.
First 5K 9/27/20 46:32 - 11 weeks post op  (PR 28:55 8/15/11)
First 10K 7/04/2011 1:03      
      First 15K 9/18/2011 1:37
First Half Marathon 10/02/2011 2:27:44 (
PR 2:24:35)   
First Half Ironman 9/30/12 7:32:04
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