I swear that all men are born with it. I don't know how many times as a child that I remember my mom asking my dad to get something for her (like from the storage room, while she was cooking in the kitchen), only to have my dad return from a thorough search to declare that there was no more of *item*. Mom would then make a trip to the storage room and return triumphantly 15 seconds later with *item* that we were apparently out of. All the time.
Today we were getting ready for a little getaway with the girls and I asked Eric if he remembered to pack the ipad for the car. He wandered around the house for 10 minutes, unable to locate the device. I then did my duty as a woman with working eyeballs and stepped in to help. (A bit put out from having just packed every other possible trip item by myself.) "Under the couch?" I suggested, as I walked into the living room.
"I already looked there!" Eric called from the next room.
"That means absolutely nothing," I muttered.
"What'd ya say?"
"Nothing!" I called back.
I shoved my head down to the carpet to peer under the sofa, and immediately spotted the vanished ipad.
I made a bit of a show of toting it out to the car. The look on Eric's face was priceless. "Where did you find that?" He asked.
"Where do you think?" I smirked.
What I like to think was a look of awe and admiration swept over his face. "But I lifted UP the entire couch and didn't see it!" He exclaimed.
About a dozen smart aleck remarks ran through my brain, all of which I restrained from speaking. I mustn't boast my super phenomenal power, that being that I am a woman/mother who is the only one in my household with the ability to SEE and FIND stuff. Sort of like that whistle that only dogs can hear.
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It's a universal trait with the gender. Do you think it's just a ploy so we quit asking them to run errands.
ReplyDeleteThank you, thank you! I actually had my husband read this post, to help prove the point I was trying to make the other day when he couldn't find the bottle of mustard in the fridge which was right in front of his face. Male Blindness... SO TRUE.
ReplyDeleteFunny :) Poor Eric. Can't say that I have any practical experience with this...from Jarok or my dad. I have the occasional case of blindness myself, though (looking all over for something that's right in front of my face), so maybe I just haven't noticed.
ReplyDeleteThere is also something to be said for men not remembering conversations. I will bring up an event we must attend and McKay will act as if it's the first he's heard of it, even though I had mentioned it to him multiple times.
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