Hannah
One of my funniest experiences of sexism was when I was on holiday in Wales, before mobile phones & Sat Navs… I was with my 3 children & a boyfriend who was considerably younger than me, & needing to find out where a friend’s house was – I left my boyfriend on the street of a small Welsh town, with my children, & went into an Estate Agents to ask for directions. I spoke to the man in there & asked him for directions, I was the driver so to me it made sense to find out where I needed to go. He looked at me, didn’t say a word, then lifted up the flap of the high counter in the office, walked past me, still saying nothing, opened the door & went out onto the street & then told my boyfriend where the place we were looking for was. I was in shock, so I didn’t question what happened straight away, & later in the day, we all had a good laugh about it! But really it is pretty shocking behaviour …