The difference between men and women

I took the train in today - I have to go out for a drink with some friends in Covent Garden this evening (when in truth I’d rather be at finishing the work I’m doing on the van - another story).

Anyway, on the train I was sitting next to a fairly young woman who was listening to her iPod Nano. I noticed that the display on the iPod still had the curling remains of the little bit of transparent, factory applied protective sticky plastic.

This may be a crass generalisation, but I have seen this practice before - new electronic devices (phones, PDAs, DVD players etc) still with their protective plastic skins attached - and on every occasion the device in question has been owned by a woman.

Conversely, I know of no man who would suffer such a piece of plastic to remain attached. It’s the very first thing to be removed, just before the instruction manual gets binned.

I believe that this difference is of the same order as the one that makes men incapable of not setting the clock on the video (thus erasing the flashing 12:00 that nags at your very soul like a little evil eye, winking at you from the corner of the room).

Do these differences between the sexes mean anything? No, probably not – but it’s odd, no?

Written by exmonkey on April 12th, 2006 with 1 comment.
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