8th February 2019
“Mansplaining, what the flipping heck is mansplaining?” This was my response to something Kelli accused me of. I merely asked if she had fully tightened the drawer knobs of a unit we delivered a week ago.
We received a message from the customer who bought it saying the knobs pulled off, and she felt that she had been “taken”, which implied that we sold her a dud. This is not what we wanted to hear, as this could effect our Marketplace place seller rating, so we switched instantly into damage limitations mode.
Kelli replied that the drawers worked perfectly when we delivered it, but offered to visit her home to fix it personally. We never had a reply even though we responded as soon as we received the complaint. This was puzzling in itself, but as we had met the lady halfway between her home and ours, we had no idea where her lived.
So going back to the start, I was innocently asking if the knobs had been fully fixed, or if they had been hand tightened in order to see what they looked like.
I had never heard of mansplaining, I accused her of making it up, as with many other words she uses.
“ Google it then” which I did, and I laughed out loud at the meaning.
mansplaining
/ˈmanˌsplāniNG/
nounINFORMAL
1. the explanation of something by a man, typically to a woman, in a manner regarded as condescending or patronizing.
The snow is back, and also the cold wind. I needed some materials so we braved the cold and drove to Menards whilst Kelli went on to Aldi.
We have finished another dresser, that just needs the top polishing, but more importantly we will make sure the knobs are fully tightened on this one.
Another Lifetime to go 