missing men

[oldmaggie]

Could anyone explain why men are always missing when a meal is ready? You can spend ages cooking, man of house under your feet, then as soon as dinner is on the plate they are nowhere to be seen.

[LoftyLottie]

Ha, ha. No explanation oldmaggie, but oh how true!!

[andy-hughes]

What happens is - you are aware that your lovely wife or partner is cooking, and doesn't want you under her feet (this is assuming you have set the table etc.,) so you scoot out of the way and ...

put the telly on

start rerading the paper

go to the loo

get the PC fired up

pick up a paper

and generally zone out, which means you miss the tell-tale sounds of the meal being ready for consumption.

Add to that the Law of Sod that means you are so absorbed in what you are doing / reading that you miss two or three calls to the table, and hey presto!

You are in BIG trouble!

It's a man thing.

Sorry ladies ...

[pastafreak]

Do they disappear to the same place as odd socks?????

[MsEVP]

and teaspoons?

[sn�gged]

Maybe its your cooking ;-)

[oldmaggie]

Thanks for the answers lol :)
Yes it might be my cooking snagged never thought of that...maybe when we first got together he could be excused but to still be doing it 45 years on???perhaps I should get him to do the cooking.!!!!!!! Maybe he goes out looking for the odd socks, teaspoons and a decent cook......

[Connemmara]

can I dip in with a post nothing with cooking. Why why do men fumble for their money when they got out a taxi. As soon a I know I am getting a taxi I have money all ready - it does my lid in!�!!! Anybody agree

[andy-hughes]

I always have my money ready getting out of a taxi, or onto a bus.

Is that 'fumbling' a man thing?

If so, must practise!

[yummymum]

my man always spends ages in the bathroom in a morning when its me that needs the bathroom as im going to work {he does nights}, nothing to do with the post but it just winds me up lol and my man also does the disappearing when tea is ready act

[Naomicorlett]

I think they are looking for something with their MAN EYES . Bless them it can take them ages.

[pusskin]

I had to laugh at what you said , oldmaggie!
If you think you've got problems, you want to be married to a man thats got a model railway upstairs in the loft !!!!
its murder. Now winters here, I will never be able to drag him down for din dins.
it takes 3---4-- shouts out to him, to get him to respond.
but -- at least I know where he is --he's not out with other women !! hee hee

[justmetoo]

mines is a nightmare, shopping is the worst, he disappers in the blink of an eye........
and dont get me started about DIY stores, he can gaze open mouthed for ever at the electric tools.........

[wolf63]

I am just visiting from 'Animals & Nature'. Are men another species from us?

[justmetoo]

yes, wolf men are very different from us...............everyone knows that...

[LoftyLottie]

Oh, just me too, I know what it's like. He fidgets and looks bored after two minutes if I am looking for something in a shop and then we have to go to B&Q where he spends simply ages 'window shopping' and appears to have all the time in the world.

[natalie_1982]

This post has made me laugh out loud.

My hubby does the same re dinner, the thing is a few minutes before I serve up I shout "Five minutes" so he has time to finish the page / turn the computer off, etc. Still never works.

But shopping. Oh, how he does my head in shopping. He always has to push the trolley, his choice not mine, but he fannies about with "No you go first, no, after you, honestly, you go first...no, really, you go....". I swear to God, if we went round the supermarket at his pace, letting all the other doddery old gets in front of us, and then just standing there waiting whilst Ethel and Stan decide to stop dead in the middle of the aisle for a catch up instead of asking them to move so you can get by, our shopping would be defrosted by the time we got home and the salad veg would be starting to rot. If I went shopping on my own it would take half the time and cost half as much.

[McNoodle]

If my missus was to cook my tea each night I'd be there, present and correct - your men don't know how lucky they are!