Pippa, your so right with your number 3 answer, my wife was being sick once, and was calling me for help, when i arrived in the bathroom she said, hold my hair back or i,ll be sick all over it, brilliant, only a woman good thing about her hair whilst being sick
1 multi-tasking
2 listening to what you tell them and taking it all in, especially when it's important stuff for THEIR benefit (eg phone your mum, she wants to speak to you urgently)
3 being utterly objective about their football team.
no, sorry, I've been awake since dawn and am clearly muddled. I thought Laurie asked for things that men were useLESS at. Useful for? ok
1 sex
2 fixing a pc
3 taking the car to the garage for repair