Redditor ChadBrowGer wanted to hear from all the gents out there and asked:
"Men of Reddit, what’s the hardest thing to explain to women?"
PICK ONE!
Meet Up Season 7 GIF by One ChicagoGiphy"It's ok to just tell me where you want to eat."
I just live...
"When you ask me how my day was or what I did today, nothing in my day usually stands out as special, so I just don't remember. I usually don't remember what I do, I just live."
RoastyMyToasty99
"Work gets put into a box as soon as I clock out, I then spend then time it takes to get home to flush my mind of it all so I am not angry or stressed about my day."
"I don't want to think about work until I clock back in the next morning. My day was the same and something funny or interesting may have happened but I am not opening that box when I'm sitting at home staring into the neighbors trees blowing in the wind."
theflyingkiwi00
Calm Down
"I'm seriously not checking you out every time you walk by in the office. I turn my head for damn near everything that enters my periphery, you're really not that special."
Iniquox
"This makes me so freaking self-conscious in the gym. Everytime someone walks past I look, especially in the mirrors and I always catch the eye of a girl probably thinking I'm checking her out. I really don't wanna be seen as that creepy guy making girls at the gym uncomfortable. It's literally the last thing I'm thinking about."
jimmyjinx
Codeless
"When we say we need time or space, that’s exactly what we need. It’s not code for 'you need to try harder.'"
LeaveForNoRaisin
"Had an ex who would keep pushing me to talk when I got angry about something. I just wanted some time to cool off before having a discussion about it."
"One of the reasons she's an ex. My wife now is fantastic, we understand each other and when it's best to just shut up and let things settle. More often than not we realise the reason for getting grumpy in the first place is trivial and we get over it."
cyborg_127
Hands Up
Yep Reaction GIF by C H A R L Ö T T EGiphy"The specifics of nod code. It’s easy to say 'up if you know them; down if you don’t' but the exact meaning of the downward nod is hard to translate. It’s seeing them, acknowledging them, and saying that neither of us have any issue with each other."
SmartAlec105
"Raise your hand if you just nodded by yourself several times."
gravyjives
A simple nod speaks volumes.
Who Knows?
Who Knows Idk GIFGiphy"Why I don't know what the heck my best friend is up to in life even after hanging out with him all day."
Apollo1255
You First
"I don't always want to be the one that initiates sex. It makes me feel like a creep."
NKoreaisbestKorea
"It doesn’t necessarily make me feel like a creep, but it makes me think the girl doesn’t actually want sex most of the time."
"When a girl does ask for sex or initiates it in her own way, it makes it so much more fun for me and takes out a lot of the anxiety and stress that sometimes surrounds sex in a relationship because it really does feel like a two sided give and receive situation."
Gulliath
Conflict Resolution
"Sometimes (this is me personally so I can't say it's common) the struggle not to share emotions isn't as much the worry of backlash from society or friends, etc. It's more just a conflict within ourselves to verbalize and come out with it. I trust my friends with respecting how I feel, I just can't get it out because I'm fighting myself."
FoxxyPantz
Love Me Tender
"Sometimes I’m just horny, but (in a committed relationship) sometimes I look at you and I’m just so in love that I want to be as close and intimate with you as I can, which is sex. My ex and I had different love languages, and she would worry that I don’t love her as much as she loves me which was just crazy because I was head over heels for her at all times. Trying to explain that that really close, lovey sex was one of the ways I showed her exactly how deeply I was in love with her, but she didn’t get it."
No More to Tell
Talking Blah Blah Blah GIF by Wiz KhalifaGiphy"Very often, we say something at its face value with no double meaning, or alternative meaning, behind it. It's women who ask me, 'What did you mean when you asked/said that?'"
"I said/asked exactly what I meant. If wanted to state it differently, I would have done so."
Well, that all sounds easy enough. A little clarification can go a long way.
Do you have anything to add? Let us know in the comments below.
Oh, dear...
"He was only a college freshman."
"I had a conversation with a friend once that went like:"
"'Drug laws are really strict in Japan'. Like, you can actually go to jail'."
"'Dude, you can go to jail in America for drugs'."
"'No, no. My friend got caught with weed once and he just had to pay a fine to the cops and they let him go'."
"That was fun to unpack."- anportan
Unless you're a colonial prisoner...
"That Australia isn’t a part of the UK."- weedrangoon·
australia lesson GIFGiphyLet's hope they were talking to a man...
"How a period works and what it’s for."- R_cheese
"How the female body works."- Chromylon
Hopefully a realization made before they were told this?
"No, my snake won't turn into two if you cut him in half."- NyalaBoy
Rare, but legal.
"That $2 bills are real, legal US tender."
"Got chewed out at a coffee job, for accepting 'fake money', because a customer paid with 2, $2 bills. "
"My boss was in their 40s."
"Took 10 minutes and a google search to prove I wasn't lying."- DarkFae420
homer simpson dollar GIFGiphyMight as well as well have worn a target!
"Not me but my husband."
"Had to tell his best friend why jumping around in the woods with some deer antlers he had found on his head was a Bad idea."
"They were hunting."- ZubLor
It's a universal inconvenience
"The fact that female anatomy is capable of farting."- samara11278
How did this conversation even begin?
"You can get pregnant if you have sex standing up."
"Had to explain this to a woman in her late thirties that had a teenage daughter."- PygmyPuff_X
There's a high percent chance they don't get this...
"8% interest rate doesn’t mean you only pay $8 a month in interest."- Attarker
"I had to explain an accounting student, grown up, evening classes, how simple percent work."
"Like if you get 5% bonus off $200 it's NOT $5."
"And it was not during the class but a knowledge check in the end of a year."- lakmus85_real
Money Gold GIF by MediamodifierGiphySavvy shoppers they ain't
"I worked in retail for too long."
"One guys debit card declined, I told him so."
"He looked at me like I was an alien, and then loudly exclaimed, ‘how can a DEBIT CARD be declined?’ "
"So had to explain that one to him."
"Another person was traveling from a state that didn’t have sales tax, and expected me to remove the sales tax from their purchase because?"
" Apparently in their mind if you live somewhere without sales tax, you can travel the country and not have to adhere to those states rules I guess."
"Another person tried to use a tax exempt card from another state, on Black Friday, mind you, and was mad that I couldn’t honor another states tax exempt card."
"Honestly like it’s okay to not know stuff."
"But don’t be a f*cking a**hole when someone tries to explain to you what the hell is going on, lmao."- plsdontkillmelol69
Nbc GIF by SuperstoreGiphyA penny saved...
"That moving money from a regular checking account to a money market-type savings account will not 'put you in a higher tax bracket'."
"This happened with a guy I was dating some time ago, he was around 38 and making a salary of under $50K."
"He had just started saving money for the first time in his life and I suggested he open an account where he could earn some interest, instead of just keeping it all in his checking account."
"He only had like $3000 or so."
"He completely flipped out on me when I told him that a few dollars in interest wouldn’t put him in a another tax bracket, which is one of many red flags I unfortunately ignored…"- imaginaryblues
"I had to explain an accounting student, grown up, evening classes, how simple percent work."
"Like if you get 5% bonus off $200 it's NOT $5."
"And it was not during the class but a knowledge check in the end of a year."- lakmus85_real
Where do you even begin?
"I had to explain to a white person that people from Spain are Spanish and not Mexican."
"I’m white myself and they kept persisting that I was the foolish and disrespectful one because 'Spanish is a language, not a race!'"
"And I was like 'Girl..'"
simon cowell facepalm GIFGiphyLet's hope they were at least on time...
"Had to explain the difference between AM and PM to a patient over the phone."
"Was one of the dumbest conversations I've ever had."- Witchgirl2658
In the beginning was the...poodle?
"I’m sure everyone’s heard of the fundamentalist Christians that don’t believe in evolution at all, but my mother believed micro-evolution wasn’t real either."
"I asked her how she thought dog breeds came to be and she was convinced that all dog breeds just popped into existence 6000 years ago with the creation of earth."
"Like in the garden of Eden there was a f*cking poodle or something."
"Even my dad who got her into the fundamentalist stuff was like 'how are you this dense'."
"She also can’t name the 7 continents."- notthatplainjane·
A generational thing?
"That not all of the problems because of computer and phone, lol."- 11-th_harbinder_simp
Well that instills confidence...
"While I was working at McDonald's I had to explain that I don't know what's in the food I just cook it sometimes and no the ice cream machine is actually broken."- SafetyEquivalent7556
ronald mcdonald wink GIFGiphyIt's hard to imagine how some of these people functioned living adult lives if they needed explanations on these things.
One can only hope they took this information in the first time they heard it.
But when another person has the same inquiry, it can really test one's patience.
This is a challenge many people who work in retail face. These hard-working employees are constantly asked questions about the store's business hours or what aisle the toiletries are in as the customer stands directly in front of said merchandise.
Curious to hear about other people's experiences of having to constantly repeat themselves, Reddit Zero-Pathways000 asked:
"What's something you're sick of having to explain?"
Every customer service industry worker must have that one thing they find themselves having to always explain.
Two Cards, Different Functions
"The difference between a debit card vs. a credit card. Yea I have to explain this to adults on a daily basis."
– Ihavenogoodusername
They Are Not The Same
"Silicone and latex are two completely different materials."
– MajorHotLips
Pet Bios
"That the animals in my care are rescues, and that I did not inflict the injuries/illnesses they have on them."
– LizardPossum
Sounds About Right
"Surrounds and rears are 2 different speaker locations and neither of them go in the ceiling."
– Anbucleric
Why are some people fascinated with the things others do?
Itinerant Applicant
"Before I got my current job a month ago, I only had about 6 other interviews over the course of 5 months. At most of them, the recruiter would always be so confused about why I've lived in so many places and it was so annoying and weird. I was a military kid, my parents moved when I was in college and now I live in a completely different state from them because that's where my fiance ended up. I don't really understand why that's confusing. People move more often now than they ever have."
– cihojuda
Necessary Accessory
"My eyes are insanely sensitive to light."
"Sunlight & fluorescent. LED, CFL, & incandescent above maybe 40 watts. Phones, computer screens, TVs."
"So I’m not wearing the sunglasses inside because I’m hungover or on drugs or trying to look super cool. I’m wearing them inside so I don’t think about gouging my eyes out every 3 minutes."
– ghosts-go-boo
Walking Companion
"Why I intermittently need a cane and that no- I’m not too young to need a cane."
– dj_microwave
Limited Vision
"Red Green color blindness. Now when it comes up instead of playing the 'what color is this?' game I have a picture on my phones that illustrates how different color visions see things."
– firenamedgabe
It can all be too much to bear. These Redditors found themselves at the end of their rope.
Lonely Is Not A Bad Thing
"That just because I don't talk to people, doesn't mean I'm lonely. I'm perfectly fine being alone with myself. Alone does not equal lonely."
– Eh_Its_Ok_I_Guess
Alone Time
"That i need time for my self. Like, it's not that I need time away from you. I just need time with me."
– R0ttenHeimer
Boiling Point
"That I can produce quick work, or quality work. You can’t have both. Got sick of explaining this to the same people over and over… so I quit my job and got a better one."
– AutoCAD_Bane
Explaining the same situation to different people is definitely exhausting.
However, it's more annoying when you have to explain something to the same person over and over again–whether it's because they weren't paying attention the first time or they didn't hear you.
Would you be more aggravated by the former or the latter?
I'll only ask once.
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