We were having some work done on a bathroom recently. The male carpenter asked if I had a measuring tape. I reached into my knitting bag and produced a measuring tape that I use in knitting and because it is a nice long one, I actually use it to measure most everything I need to measure up to 4 feet long.
This friend looked at me as if I had two heads and not being a person of many words, that was about it. I wondered what the problem was. I had actually laid my hands on it in less than 15 seconds, which is pretty good in our house.
I soon realized that he meant one of those measuring tapes, that retracts and lays on the item you are about to measure and has a hook to hold onto that end so you can measure pretty long things. He meant a "measuring tape".
I said to him at this point, "You mean a male measuring tape?". We both laughed and about 100 times since then, this expression has been of use. "Oh, you mean a female measuring tape" or "Oh, you mean a male measuring tape".
Gender differences are pretty funny, aren't they?
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