WHEN MEN DON’T REALIZE THE WOMAN IS THE CLIENT

Ladies, have you ever been in a situation where, even though you’re the person in charge, the salesman or clerk turns away from you and talks to your husband? From BuzzFeed, here are some real-life experiences:
– “Occasionally, when my husband and I go out to eat, I’ll order steak and he’ll go for the fish. The server nearly always gives the steak to him.”
– “He wasn’t my husband, not my boyfriend, but a guy friend I happened to have around when a carpenter came to fix something in my home. I was talking to the carpenter about the issue. Then, he saw my friend and did a 180° to talk to him. He literally turned his back on me while I was mid-sentence in my home.”
– “When my husband and I were looking for our first house, he had student debt. I had been practicing law and had $20K saved for the downpayment. The real estate agent only spoke to him, even if I asked the questions. In one house, we wanted to look at the basement, and the guy said, ‘You don’t want to go there. It has spiders.’ I told my husband that I wouldn’t ever buy a house from him. Later, that guy ran for office, and I told everyone the story, including a woman that called me randomly to promote his candidacy. Turns out, she was his mother.”
– “When I had my appendix taken out, I asked my doctor when sex would be okay again. He turned to my husband and said, ‘Whenever you feel ready, you can begin sexual relations again.'”
– “I have a chronic pain disease. I noticed that my father and male relatives have no problems securing pain meds, but my doctors would never give me any despite clearly indicating how much pain I was in. I started bringing my father or husband to my appointments and would have them repeat how much pain I was in. Suddenly, I get pain medication.”
– “I was sitting in a furniture store and texted my best friend to get her opinion on a piece I was looking at. The salesman goes, ‘You texting him to see if he’ll let you buy it?'”
– “I had been in the hospital with septic. On a scale of 1–10, my pain level was 8–10, and the doctor wouldn’t do a thing about it. The doctor decided to turn to my husband and say, ‘Would you be in this much pain?'”
– “I was dating someone for less than a year when I had to get an emergency hysterectomy. They asked him if he was okay with it.”
* How did BuzzFeed manage to get responses from 1950?
* Ladies: why do you even allow men to still exist on this earth?
* PHONE TOPIC: Do you have a story like this, where the salesman doesn’t believe a woman can be the decision maker?