When was the last time you were left waiting by your other half while she zipped for the tenth time into the changing room, or took her time picking what clothes to match her shoes for dinner?
I bet it was last weekend or maybe just yesterday.
Think of the man hours lost and the time that we could have been spent doing something more productive, such as washing the car, going to the gym or finding out the latest on the Carlos Tevez saga on Soccernet.
Now, if you are a woman and reading this, you are probably dismissing this as an impatient man's rant and cannot wait to stick your stiletto onto my
back the next time we meet.
Wrong. As always, I have the facts to back me up.
A recent survey has discovered that British men spend almost one year twiddling their thumbs and waiting for their wives or girlfriends.
By golly, that is 365 days that you could have been on the golf course instead and be closer to your ambitions of turning professional!
But that is not all. The other results in the survey conducted by clothing website www.missbutterfly.co.uk on 2,000 men are:
The average man spends a miserable 22 weeks waiting outside changing rooms alone as they turn fashion consultants to their partners.
They will spend about a week of their lives waiting in their cars for their partners who have just had a girls' night out.
Now, there is a saying that goes: "Good things come to those who wait."
Sure, but only if you are worth it.
Unfortunately, not all men think that their other halves are worth the wait.
Six out of 10 guys admitted that the waiting game drives them off the wall, while one in 10 ran out of patience, packed their bags, dumped their partners and headed for the highway.
This is interesting, especially in light of the Singapore government's statistics released this week on marriages and divorces.
It said that divorces in Singapore rose from 6,909 in 2005 to 7,091 last year.
Very broadly, ceteris paribus, let us just say that one out of these 10 men made a bolt for it as they were tired of waiting on their wives.
That would mean an amazing 700 Singaporean men who cut off matrimonial links as they could not take another day of watching paint dry outside changing rooms.
That's 700 marriages that could have been saved if women stopped wasting their ex-husbands' time.
Is that being too simplistic? Maybe. But if you are a woman and reading this, why do you want to take that chance?
