Yes, I get that about not exactly being a guest. But this man needs a talking to IMHO. Even when you live with someone, you don't generally order or make food without asking, "Hey, do you want anything?" That can involve calling if they're on their way home/still at work but will be home when the food arrives. Truly,…

Wow, that is amazingly rude. How many people on this planet wouldn't recognize that eating in front of their guest(s) while offering and providing them nothing was just a tad awkward? That's ninja level.

>>“I would ask her several times if something was OK for me to do, and then when she said yes and I went and did it, she'd be mad at me for it.”

How hard can it be to realize that when your wife is actively vomiting, you shouldn't go for a bike ride and instead help her take care of the child THAT IS ALSO YOURS? Many of these needs aren't that complex.

"Why do I care how it looks?"

I think the fact that women have to deal with potentially dangerous situations from a very young age on (harassment, cat calling, walking home alone in the evening while having a vagina etc) plays a part in this as well. They learn very early how to tell when other people, particularly men, are angry or tense or…

Oy, and the maniacal reasoning you have to put yourself through!

"I really think the kitchen should be cleaner than this...my mother taught me to have a cleaner kitchen than this...He did this though-it's his stupid sandwich crumbs/dirty spoon...I could ask him to clean it...But what if that seems like I'm nagging?...I…

My problem with the "I can't read your mind" issue is that when it's about regular life stuff, communicating it makes me feel like my partner's mom and/or a nag (and we all know women who don't expect their mind's to be read get accused of this). If I need to constantly ask you to take out the trash, help me with the…

"I've always wondered why it seems like women tend to be most guilty of this."

I've done a fair amount of last minute travel, and a fair amount of actually thinking about this. I'm always shocked when the morning of travel, I'm ready to fly, and they're flying a plane with empty seats, and not willing to give me the ticket for some ridiculous low rate. That seat literally expires in a few hours!…

This is absolutely true. Women are expected to take care of people, and men aren't trained the same way. Even in 2014, if I'm at a dinner or a party, at the end, the men are all sitting around joking with each other, and the women are helping to clean up. Thoughtlessness is more tolerated in men than women.

To take your point a step further - women do get that message from others and can unfairly expect men to intuit everything. But I think we women can also have those same unfair expectations of ourselves. I can't imagine, as a woman, if I ended up in the scenario in #2, complaining to my friends about it. I would feel…

All the fast food jobs I had I was encouraged to work as fast as possible. One special order slows it down and makes managers angry.

"Burger flipping" isn't simple. It's a constant barrage of orders that at their worst can be total hell.

It's not just fast food either. Waiters at traditional restaurants have it rough too. They may not be paid much, and it might be considered unskilled labor, but you better believe that it's still rough and…

Repeat after me: there is no secret menu. There is no secret menu. There is no secret menu.

This is my preferred method. The curls seem to last way longer when done with a flat iron, rather than a curling iron. Plus, I've always been a little afraid of the wholly-exposed hot metal stick aspect of curling irons.

Next time you go to Taco Bell [drunk] inspired, try giving the teller $20 in exchange for "the best meal $20 can buy you." In variants of this exercise I've ordered "what you [employee] like to make when you get crazy for your shift meal." I've received quadruple decker tacos, burritos made with every ingredient,…

...but omit the pickles...

Yes, EQ is there to even out the levels due to stereo/amp/speaker/ear issues. It should really be set with test audio that plays the same level sound, but at different frequencies.