Is this just a Scottish thing?
Is it just my pensioner generation?
Or is it just those I have talked to about it?
Why should a male think that somehow he is the only person capable of storing away stuff in the back of a car. He does not feel the same compulsion about storing away groceries in the kitchen after a supermarket shop - although that is far more onerous.
Is it a left-over from the day when the family car belonged to the man of the house - a time when the little woman would have no money to buy her own car and perhaps did not drive.
Or is it a left over from a time when there was a clear division of territory - the car and garden shed being the man's and the kitchen being the woman's?
Is it a left over from those days of the big strong husband carrying the heavy suitcases for the little wife? That is a possibility I suppose - a remnant from the days of chivalry?
Somehow I don't think so.
For a start we don't go in for heavy cases - all those leather things went to the charity shop years ago . We now use various kit bags and rucksacks and carrier bags and boxes.
Fitting it all in is a challenge. However - it is not a challenge of strength, but of intelligence, particularly spatial awareness. It does not require a knowledge of machines or mechanics or of making things work or of mending things - all of which - I am the first to admit - I am useless at.
No - it requires skills I have to the same to degree of excellence as any male - if not better.
It is therefore most irksome when there is the assumption that the senior male must be in charge
No - I say
It is time for us females to fight back.
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