Making up time
The Sunday papers are great for running articles that wouldn’t normally qualify as news during the week.
The Herald-Sun had a good one on December 11 headlined "Making up time". It quoted a UK survey which proved that women take three times longer than men to get ready for work or a night out.
The average bloke needs just 13 minutes in the morning to eat breakfast, shower, shave and get dressed. Women take 54 minutes!
I must say that I take a bit longer than two minutes over breakfast myself, but I can relate to the survey’s finding that men spend just five minutes in the shower and one minute combing their hair.
That’s where the ladies fall down. It takes them 18 minutes to prepare their hair and 15 minutes to apply make-up.
When it comes to getting ready for a night on the town, men need an average of 30 minutes, while the girls take an hour and a half.
That’s always puzzled me. The surface area of a woman is usually less than the male partner, so why does it take them so long to wash, groom and dress?
The hair seems to be a big time sucker, but it also takes women 26 minutes to get dressed, compared with 10 minutes for men.
Life is too short to waste on such things, surely.
The poll shows that women spend 693 days just getting ready during the 42 years of adult working life.
It’s good to see that science has been usefully applied in this instance to prove a fact that men have known for many years, but never had the courage to discuss.
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Nice knowing you, Michael. Them’s fighting words! LOL
Look at the bright side. While the women are spending all that time focussed on themselves as they get ready to go out they’re leaving us alone! I find that extra hour or so I have to myself quite relaxing.