I’m so excited about that post @Brian1946 that I can’t see straight!
She still hasn’t responded to my last question. Today I thought of this and posted it on that same thread:
“Tiff~ This caused me to remember when I owned the mower shop from 2002–2006. (40 years ago I would have been laughed out of the bank for going to ask for a business loan. Especially a business loan for a mower shop because I’m a woman. But this women’s rights crap came along and today, for the most part we’re treated as equally as the men… usually.) Anyway, the shop was an extremely male-oriented environment. Most of the time I was in the office keeping the records, but sometimes, if we were busy, I’d go back and help the guys, sharpening chains, tuning up push mowers. It’s not rocket science. But there was this one customer in particular, an older guy from the generation before mine, who just LOST it if he saw me in the back working on a mower! He would literally pull me away and say “This is no kind of work for a woman!” He was just adamant.
I didn’t say anything, just kind of shook my head and rolled my eyes when he wasn’t looking, and when he left I told my husband and our other mechanic, basically “All his lawn mowers are mine!” I could command that because I was the boss. When he brought something in, they’d give it to me.
It just cracked me up the way he ranted and raved about what a good job the “guys” did on his equipment! If he’d ever found out it was me, we probably would have lost a customer. He never got that Woman’s Rights Crap memo.”
I’m kinda hoping that she’ll ask why my husband didn’t keep the books and I do all the mechanic work. That will give me a chance to say “You know. Good question. I have an aptitude for mechanics. In middle school they gave us these aptitude tests. My highest score, at 98, was in engineering. However, I was strongly discouraged from taking shop classes because I was a girl, so I never did.
Rick, on the other hand, has been in to mechanics since his dad handed him a wrench when he was old enough to work one.
Different world, and one that I’m sure is hard for you to imagine.”
She has all those benefits that woman in previous generations worked so HARD to secure for her, and she doesn’t even know what those benefits are. She takes them for granted. Calls them “crap.”
Sorry. I’m still angry at her upbringing.
