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Nancy.Smith1

Fri, 12/22/2006 - 7:07am

The "little lady" attitudes

I just opened an email from a company that I've purchased many tools from. The email is address to me, an obvious female, even starts out with my name, "Hello Nancy." It then proceeds to tell husbands that their wives probably don't want this tool or that for Christmas and they then suggest bath soaps. Hello people, don't you realize the wife is the one buying/using all the man tools? We no longer sit around the house waiting until "the man of the house" comes home to repair something? If we did, nine times out of ten, the house would fall down around us. It's like this going to the hardware store. You're dressed in dirty bibs, you're hair is plastered to you're head from sweat and you ask about a particular nut or bolt and the sales person asks what your husband needs it for. Hello ! ! I feel so much better now getting that out. Well, back to my wifely duties.

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BeeCee writes:

Tue, 12/26/2006 - 12:22pm

I love your story! I was actually watching TV last week and the commercial was pretty much the same message - wonder if it was the same company. I'm thinking ARE YOU SERIOUS?! Do you know how many tools I and so many women out there own!?

My quick HI story - I'm in the tool rental center looking for some cartridges for my air nailer and couldn't find them so I figured the guy in here would be able to direct me. As I'm standing in line, the guy that was returning his floor sander looks at me and says, "What's a pretty lady like you doing in here? You should be watching, not working." And he was serious! I just bit my tongue and smiled. Then he continued, "See that over there, that's a monster - way to big for a pretty 'lil thing like you."

Okay, I had enough. So I said, "You mean the floor sander you're returning?" He asked, "How do you know what that is?" I told him that I've used one before. Then he thought he'd pull the manly card, "Well that one is much bigger than something you could handle, you have to be really careful with it." Are you kidding. So I said, "Yeah, because if you let it sit in one spot for too long, it will eat up the stock on your floor. Yeah - I know, I refinished a 1400 sqft house with all wood floors, I've used that several times HONEY, this lil' lady knows her tools!"

So with shock, he just stood there, I located my cartridges and told him to not hurt himself as I walked out of the store. Sheesh, nice!

You go, girls!

olivigus writes:

Thu, 05/17/2007 - 11:26am

Here's my best (worst) "little lady" story. I needed some copper pipe, which I was told was in the very back corner of the lumber yard. So I drive over there, park, get out of the truck, and immediately this guy who's driving a forklift says, "Well now, you got yourself lost honey, didn't you..." (as if that were the ONLY reason a woman would be at that end of the lumber yard!) I smiled (OK, I was really gritting my teeth) and said, very clearly and precisely, biting off every word, "No. I am not lost. I need some 1/2-inch copper pipe. I was told this is where it was located. I would appreciate it if you would go get someone who can help me." Hell hath no fury like a handywoman scorned. He slunk sheepishly out of his forklift and ran off to get the pipe guy. Sheesh, indeed.

You might burn your house down...

Heidi writes:

Thu, 05/17/2007 - 4:34pm

Last summer I was buying a dimmer switch and this guy (who shown me where they were located) told me that I'd need to hire someone so that I didn't burn my house down. I told him that I did home improvment for a living and his "whitty" retort was, "You'd be the best improvement to my home." Uh, yuck! Why in the world would any man think that line would work on any woman and even more so on one wearing a wedding band?!?!

Newbie here and I want to post what happens to me at the local..

ComesWithTools writes:

Sun, 07/01/2007 - 6:36pm

HD store. My b/f, bless his heart is a wonderful guy but doesn't know diddly squat about home renovations nor does he want to know. He will help me but only if I ask. For a long time, when I would go to the local HD store "I" would ask the question, i.e. I wanted to know the difference between these 2 nailing guns and if they would do the work I needed them to do. Well after listening to my question, one sales clerk turns (literally) to face my b/f and answers it. I'm not there apparently! My b/f spoke up and said "don't tell me I have no clue about renovations, shes the builder". I politely "smirked". Now they have gotten to know me. I've since built a shed, a deck that included a small veggie garden and pond and laid laminated flooring all through the house as well as numerous smaller projects. I have two sales clerks that know me well now, one guy and one girl. The girl is just as handy with tools and projects as I am and we get along great. The guy is amazed and always stops to ask me what I'm building next. "If you screw up make sure it looks like it was meant to look that way!"