We all started out as O/W students

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Well honestly, I often ask if old fat guys need help getting their stuff on the boat and many look quite distressed at the idea of me helping them and sometimes will wait until a male can help them saying they don't want me to hurt myself or something like that. One guy last week wanted to lift his doubles down to the boat from the pier, so I offered to grab them off him as he handed them down but he refused to do it, saying he wanted the (male) deckhand to help because they were 'heavy'. I assured him that I could lift them down but he just looked very doubtfully at me.

That's probably just the way his mother raised him.

 

[udtfire]

well not to defend jim but let me see. 2 years working dive shop and less than 49 dives if this is correct then with 49 dives how much do you really know . now that was not a dig just a fact. and how you look or dont look it a dress the water dont care and neither should you but remember we all live in the body we are delt. so it is up to you to set the tone of the way your treated in the shop water ect... but as a the underlying tone of the post if you are woman and want to roar for no other reason than you place youself in a imaganary sub catagory in which you need to be the victim. so in the words of the earlier post shut up and dive and when you have enough skill knowledge to be of benefit the show it and you will shine as a professional and be treated as one. this is not ment to be personal it is just the way the world is deal with it.

 

[knowone]

Males find it difficult to be men and even more difficult if a woman is thrown into the mix.

So if women were to publish an instruction manual it would be very helpful
as long as the contents remained the same before the printing ceased.

Disrespectful people are just that, that as kids didn't do the dishes, take out the rubbish, cut the grass, or help tune the car, or their equivalents.

Sow and ye shall reap.
But not from everyone.

 

[Jax]

Males find it difficult to be men and even more difficult if a woman is thrown into the mix.

So if women were to publish an instruction manual it would be very helpful
as long as the contents remained the same before the printing ceased.

Disrespectful people are just that, that as kids didn't do the dishes, take out the rubbish, cut the grass, or help tune the car, or their equivalents.

Sow and ye shall reap.
But not from everyone.

Day-em, a clear and definitive opinion! Good job!

I didn't know you had it in you!

 

[MClark12]

Well honestly, I often ask if old fat guys need help getting their stuff on the boat and many look quite distressed at the idea of me helping them and sometimes will wait until a male can help them saying they don't want me to hurt myself or something like that. One guy last week wanted to lift his doubles down to the boat from the pier, so I offered to grab them off him as he handed them down but he refused to do it, saying he wanted the (male) deckhand to help because they were 'heavy'. I assured him that I could lift them down but he just looked very doubtfully at me.

That's not necessarily a bad thing. I know I'm capable of carrying doubles but if there's a man around to do it then be my guest

 

[MXGratefulDiver]

Well honestly, I often ask if old fat guys need help getting their stuff on the boat and many look quite distressed at the idea of me helping them and sometimes will wait until a male can help them saying they don't want me to hurt myself or something like that. One guy last week wanted to lift his doubles down to the boat from the pier, so I offered to grab them off him as he handed them down but he refused to do it, saying he wanted the (male) deckhand to help because they were 'heavy'. I assured him that I could lift them down but he just looked very doubtfully at me.

... well, you can carry my doubles anytime ...

It's not that I need the help, really ... it's just that it feels nice to be asked ...

... Bob (Grateful Diver)

 

[Jax]

Just remember, it's a 2-way street....being "older" does not always equate to senility either . .

It doesn't?

I can remember my first day of kindergarten but cannot remember for what I went into the next room . . .

 

[MXGratefulDiver]

So if women were to publish an instruction manual it would be very helpful
as long as the contents remained the same before the printing ceased.

... but you know one of the "rules" in that manual is gonna be "the guy carries the heavy sh!t" ...

... Bob (Grateful Diver)

 

[MXGratefulDiver]

I can remember my first day of kindergarten but cannot remember for what I went into the next room . . .

Uh oh ... short-term memory loss isn't so much a sign of old age as it is a symptom of how you lived when you were younger ... :blinking:

... Bob (Grateful Diver)

 

[Jax]

Uh oh ... short-term memory loss isn't so much a sign of old age as it is a symptom of how you lived when you were younger ... :blinking:

... Bob (Grateful Diver)

OMG I'M DOOMED! :bonk: :doh: