Wait Watchers

Hmmmm, Are You A Lady In Waiting?

Righty-o, I'm looking forward to the diverse comments on this one. Two or three days ago I saw a report that British men spend almost a year of their lives waiting for their wives or girlfriends, according to a survey for clothes website Miss Butterfly. The average man spends 22 weeks alone, waiting outside shop changing rooms while their wife or partner tries on clothes.

They will also spend nearly a week of their lives sitting in their car before picking up wives or girlfriends from ``girlie nights out''. Six out of ten men say it drives them crazy, and one in ten were so annoyed by it they had dumped their partner. But one in five men said they got their own back by eyeing up other girls in the store.

FOOTNOTE: Surely it's not a case of ``Britannia rules the wives''.