 Poster: A snowHead
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So, if you have to put on snowchains in anger, who does the job if there is a lady and a man in the car. My DH has claimed incompetency and has nominated me for the task as I can get the rotten things on the wheels and he claims  that he can't. What do you think of that?
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Megamum, oh..... thats alright then 
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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would depend on whether he was in a "got to prove I'm a man" mood, or an idle one! When the spark plugs needed changing on our car years ago, in the snow, despite him being the one who'd done a basic mechanics option as a "complementary studies" unit, guess who was out there shivering and struggling to remove the air filter, which in a Triumph Dolomite had to come off to access the plugs!
And when we 1st drove in Spain, arriving at 11pm with a 20 mile drive along the Costa del Sol dual carriageway to do, I found myself volunteered to drive the heavily laden hire car (because my parents had owned a LHD car in the UK when I was 17); however, after sneaking off to practise round the quiet complex the aparment was on, he suddenly became king of the car keys, driving everywhere from then on, saying there was "nothing to this LHD lark". 
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Butterfly, Given that, and tenuously related as you all know he's got his new (and first ever) company car. I keep getting the following comment 'you'll have to get behind the wheel soon so that you're OK when we drive to Switzerland'.
So you might ask 'OK, so what?'
So in my job I've had countless different hire cars turn up to drive, I've owned about 8 very different cars in my driving life. I used to drive many different pool cars in my previous job, I drive an ambulance, I drove our 3.5 tonne horsebox and I've passed my advanced driving test and am a member of the IAM. I think the offer is a little condescending given that background - men!!
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Megamum, one wheel each gets the job done faster and thus safer as, the less time by the side of a slippery road with potentially out of contol cars passing, the better. I know you are worried about situations like this!  Incompetency is a poor excuse.
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Megamum, I suspect you are the one giving the "orders" as to who does what in your household.
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This thread is sexist.
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Megamum, the male ego is so fragile! Mine has to be exhausted before he'll ask if I will take over on a long journey - keeps insisting he's "fine!" if I suggest it. But when you go back 30years it was a different story. I had a driving licence, he didn't, having failed his test! So despite his protestations that he could drive, but the examiner was a ****, I agreed to teach him. He was a policeman at the time and when we got married, he said he would drive away from the reception, cos everyone would think the L plates on the car were mine anyway! He was right, actually - it was noticeable how discourteous other male drivers were to me when I was driving with him in the passenger seat! Anway finally he passed his test, then the police sent him on an "improver" course, which involved things like never going below 60 unless it was unavoidable. Well a week or two later, this young hothead wrote my car off!
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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| Wear The Fox Hat wrote: |
| This thread is sexist. |
Yep!
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You know it makes sense.
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I put the chains on, Jane calms me down and stops me cursing. On balance I have the slightly easier task.
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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| Megamum wrote: |
| So, if you have to put on snowchains in anger, who does the job if there is a lady and a man in the car. My DH has claimed incompetency and has nominated me for the task as I can get the rotten things on the wheels and he claims that he can't. What do you think of that? |
Are you pro or against sexual equality?
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Poster: A snowHead
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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The transfer bus driver.
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We don't go in for all that dungeon stuff.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Megamum, 5647 posts in 13 months? You really should get out more 
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He does. (Well, he would if we needed them). All car stuff, he does. I'll put petrol in but that's all.
He can't complain. I do other stuff which is more suited to my abilities.
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what a wuss, dump him..
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This thread is sexist.
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Don't know about that, but it's certainly stupid.
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Buy a 4 x 4 it's much easier 
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Megamum, we share the job. As chris says, you want to get them on as quickly as poss. If he can't get them on, then clearly he needs some practice, preferably out in today's rain and wind (and tell him not to be such a wuss) 
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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When I first ironed a shirt for Mr Blue I made a bit of a hash of it. Many years later I'm sure I could manage to iron his shirts but he still thinks I can't...... and that suits me very well, if you get my drift
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We do a wheel each, and when I've done mine, I go and help him with his....
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You know it makes sense.
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I pay anyone capable of doing it for me!
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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skilegs, are you in North America? I gather that's what happens there. In France, it seems, people mostly do their own - there's certainly never been anyone around who looked like they would do it for money, when I've had to put chains on!
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Poster: A snowHead
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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| pam w wrote: |
| skilegs, are you in North America? I gather that's what happens there. In France, it seems, people mostly do their own - there's certainly never been anyone around who looked like they would do it for money, when I've had to put chains on! |
They probably have to prove they can put them on within 10% of the time of the world champ before being granted a licence to take money.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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I can tell you the very concept of putting chains on for money is very dear to my heart. I'm very glad the "system" exist.
Once, I pulled my MCL on the next to last day of my skiing at Lake Tahoe. (my companion had flown out on a earlier date to get back to work earlier. I had more vacation and wanted to ski some more on my own). I could barely walk and certainly couldn't kneel. I check the forecast and highway condition, which unfortunately was snowing lightly all day and CHAINS REQUIRED over all the mountain passes. Although I was closer to south Tahoe (Alpine Meadow), I drove up north first so I would pass the chain control area at I-80, where I knew chain installers would be lining the side of the highway to "help". Had I gone the southern route, I would had to install the chain MYSELF, which I couldn't see how I could.
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