The lady I care for needed me to clean two big fans she used in the summer. It's too cold now for them to be useful so she wanted to put them in storage.
In order for them to be cleaned, they needed to be taken apart, and she was very anxious about the second one. I had no anxiety about it whatsoever. The first one was held together by one screw and a few clips. It came apart easily. I cleaned it no problem, and then I eagerly came for the second one.
"Wait!" She stopped me anxiously. "We need to call the neighbour, he put it together the last time, it took half an hour, it was really difficult." I know the neighbour in question, he's the one who called me waitress. So I'm like "Well, I just need to take it apart to clean it, we'll figure out assembling it later. Let me try?" And she nods, understanding.
I take it apart and its held together by a thin strip of plastic and one screw. I clean it and decide to put it back together for storage.
"There's no chance for you to do this." The horrible male was watching me, as usual. "Me and ____ barely managed to put it together, and it took forever. You won't make it."
And I'm thinking, yeah you two with your male brains would take forever to put one fan together. I took apart my laptop yesterday, I am a woman, I am more intelligent and will put it together in a second.
He leaves me be. Woman grabs the phone and phones the neighbour, asking him to come over to 'put something back together'. She has zero faith in me. But I have plenty.
Using my brain I quickly figure out that its very clumsy to hold both pieces of fan together and try to screw the plastic strip around it, but very easy to fasten the strip around one part, then add the second and screw them tight together. It was done in under 60 seconds.
I bring it inside. "I think its done." I say confidently. The woman checks it out. She's confused. This was supposed to be impossible, according to the male 'experts'.
"Good job." The horrible male says, sounding impressed for once. But I don't care about the opinion of a male who can't put a fan together.
"I'll put them in storage." I smile to the woman. "Yeah!' She agrees.
"It probably was easier to fit it back after it was done once." I hear him say as I leave. Of course it was. She agreees sheepishly.
It keeps happening, the male claiming something can't be done and then I do it easily. I hope she's noticing. I hope she knows now their words are not the law. They just say whatever to make themselves look good. They struggle to even assemble a fan!
If a male ever says something is hard, assume he just did not have any brainpower at his disposal and for you it will be easy. Thats exactly how it works out in reality!
