In the creative, snide comments department, kind of...
ever get caught by a pack of women in the "femine products" aisle?
A few years back, I was moving into an apartment that had a big window in the bedroom. It had blinds, but it needed something else to block out the light. My mom offered to sew up some curtains for me. Now, I'm of the view that every man (and woman) should have enough sew-fu to maintain their clothing and such. I'd not have felt the least bit sheepish about sewing up some curtains for myself, but at my skill level, it would have taken forever and might have ended up a pretty bad job. My mother, on the other hand, had the mad sewing skills to do it much faster and better than I. And I was busy moving and registering for college classes and what-not. She wanted to do something to help me out.
So we went to the fabric store to get some material. While my mom was looking at some other things in the store, I went up to pay for the fabric. I made the mistake of mentioning that my mom was making some curtains for me. The lady at the counter kindly informed me that guys can sew, too. Usually engineers, she said.
I bore her prejudiced attitude with minimal response until I could get out of the store. I could have explained to her why it made more sense for my mommy to do it for me. Or I could have asked her if she presumed that every man who came into the store was afraid to do girlie stuff like sewing. Whatever. Can you tell that this still annoys me?
