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<blockquote data-quote="hearts and roses" data-source="post: 314640" data-attributes="member: 2211"><p><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: royalblue">Here's a story (and it may be a clue as to why some boys/men feel they are entitled to being waited on):</span></span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: royalblue">A few years ago my family all convened at my mom and her h's cabin to install new siding and a roof. On the second morning, my mom had pulled eggs, rolls and peppers and onions from the fridge and asked me to make up some omelets. I thought she meant platter style. As I was cooking up the eggs, peppers, onions and cheese, she was slicing up the rolls. I put all the eggs on a platter and turned to her to grab the rolls, which I thought would also be on a platter and she looked at me like I had four heads. I asked, "Mom, don't you think they'd like to, or can, fix their own egg sandwiches?" and she literally was biting her tongue and then yelled at me "NO! Fix them their sanwiches!!". When I asked "Why can't they fix their own?" she became so apoplectic that she finally screamed, "BECAUSE THEY'RE MEN!! NOW DO IT!!" I did it, but not without adding, "Mom, they're men, but they're not retarded. Yeesh~"</span></span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: royalblue">LOL. To this day H will sometimes try and weasel out of something by claiming his manliness prevents him from doing it, from making a meal to scrubbing the tub. It's all in fun, but sometimes I wonder...lol.</span></span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="hearts and roses, post: 314640, member: 2211"] [FONT=Comic Sans MS][SIZE=4][COLOR=royalblue]Here's a story (and it may be a clue as to why some boys/men feel they are entitled to being waited on):[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Comic Sans MS][SIZE=4][COLOR=royalblue]A few years ago my family all convened at my mom and her h's cabin to install new siding and a roof. On the second morning, my mom had pulled eggs, rolls and peppers and onions from the fridge and asked me to make up some omelets. I thought she meant platter style. As I was cooking up the eggs, peppers, onions and cheese, she was slicing up the rolls. I put all the eggs on a platter and turned to her to grab the rolls, which I thought would also be on a platter and she looked at me like I had four heads. I asked, "Mom, don't you think they'd like to, or can, fix their own egg sandwiches?" and she literally was biting her tongue and then yelled at me "NO! Fix them their sanwiches!!". When I asked "Why can't they fix their own?" she became so apoplectic that she finally screamed, "BECAUSE THEY'RE MEN!! NOW DO IT!!" I did it, but not without adding, "Mom, they're men, but they're not retarded. Yeesh~"[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Comic Sans MS][SIZE=4][COLOR=royalblue]LOL. To this day H will sometimes try and weasel out of something by claiming his manliness prevents him from doing it, from making a meal to scrubbing the tub. It's all in fun, but sometimes I wonder...lol.[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT] [/QUOTE]
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