I realized something today. With my Hubby gone for the next 5 days or so, come Monday, I'm going to have to take out the garbage. In almost 8 years of marriage this is a task I have never once performed. Crazy, huh? I've taken the garbage outside to the big cans, but I've never walked it to the curb. And I'll have to do the recycling, too. Whenever I've mentioned this and people have asked why, I've just shrugged and said, "It's the man's job."
That got me to thinking, there are a few tasks that I consider "man's work." I'm not sure why, other than it just seems right. Here are some others:
-the car: cleaning, changing the oil, starting it and plugging it in in cold weather.
-mowing the lawn-opening doors (this to me is a courtesy that I've come to expect)
-carrying anything heavy
-walking on the outside of the sidewalk, closest to the traffic (again, a courtesy, but still one the man should do)
Does this make me chauvenistic? What are some things that you see as "the man's job"? Or do you dare share? LOL!
