Saturday, 11 July 2009

Men in Womens' Changing Rooms

So I am in a clothes shop which has two changing rooms - just two stalls curtained off in the main part of the shop. As I queue for one to become available I watch a man ( I assumed ' the husband') gently and discretely pull the curtain back and peer into one of the changing rooms. ' Oh no,' says he in a none too quiet voice, 'that's far too tight. You need a size 16 or even an 18.'

Where to begin? As our US neighbours would proclaim - 'That is wrong on so many levels.'
As I heard this I realised that had I been that woman I would have been searching in my bag for my phone to call my divorce lawyer. On the spot.

Women know when clothes are too tight. Trust me, we know. We don't need it pointed out. We especially don't need it pointed out by our husbands, in a public place, in a loud voice.

I then went into the dressing room next to this woman in tight clothing and realised I was becoming rather irate on her behalf and wondered, yet again, why some women put up with the husbands they appear to have chosen of their own free will. I then heard his voice again. This time he was talking to someone fast approaching my cubicle. ' Oh you can't go in there - I just saw a young woman go in there to try on clothes.' As someone who has , in the last few weeks, become eligible for the full range of Saga products and services, I regret to say I felt myself simper. My view of him changed immediately.....but I was relieved that he didn't stick his head into my changing room. On so many levels.

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