I
caught part of the weekday morning programme 'Breakfast' on BBC, my
favourite and a routine part of my daily ritual, while I sip my first
cup of coffee of the day. I was a little late turning on the TV this
morning and what I immediately heard was the host saying '... size
doesn't matter at all as skill overcomes everything, and women are
definitely better than men ...' and that was said by the male
presenter. I stopped half way my walk towards the kitchen to make the
coffee and returned to the bedroom, to find that what they were talking
about were driving skills, specifically in parking a car.
In
fact they have organised a competition, or something of the sort, to
settle the perennial question of whether men or women are better doing
certain common daily tasks. Women have been for long ridiculed as
hopeless drivers. Whenever there's traffic problems it's always
supposedly caused by women drivers, while men are being laughed at as
useless cooks & cry-babies when they are ever so slightly injured
or with just a common headache.
Interesting
to find men, those in the programme today anyway, agree that women are
in fact better and faster parking a large car in a small & awkward
corner of a car-park. They put it down to men's lack of patience. Since
I found there was nothing for me to learn, I went back to making my
coffee.
