If you want to have a happy marriage women drivers need to find more time for their domestic chores or get more help.
In a recent survey carried out by car insurer esure, 29 per cent of couples admitted to using their work as an excuse for not doing their domestic chores with one in four (24 per cent) blaming their children and one in ten (11 per cent) even held their pets accountable.
This often led to domestic disputes of which these were the Top Ten
1. Leaving clothes lying around the house (35 per cent)
2. Putting off home improvements (28 per cent)
3. Doing the washing up (24 per cent)
= 4. Not fixing broken household items (17 per cent)
= 4. Not taking the rubbish out (17 per cent)
6. Not making the bed (12 per cent)
7. Leaving the toilet seat up (10 per cent)
= 8. Hiding or not owning up to damage (9 per cent)
= 8. Not emptying the dishwasher (9 per cent)
10. Doing shoddy DIY (6 per cent)
Just for the record, women cited DIY as the biggest cause of domestic disputes with home improvements, fixing broken household items and shoddy DIY totalling 59 per cent of the overall vote.
With no mention of the car here, one hesitates to ask the question whether it is the woman driver who is expected to look after the maintenance, MOTs, car servicing and repairs for the family cars in case this adds to the alleged 4.4 hours typical couples spend arguing about all this each week.
Instead of running the risk that your car might be unsafe, unreliable and running more expensively than it needs to, why not check out female friendly good garage website, FOXY Choice, to choose one of the measurably best local garages and industry professionals to maintain, MOT, service and repair your car near you?
Or if you join FOXY Lady Drivers Club you can claim free quarterly Car Fitness Checks from FOXY approved garages who have signed the female friendly FOXY Promise. And in most cases you’ll also qualify for a members only discount for MOT, car servicing or repairs which you can then share with your partner and other motoring members of your family.
Here’s to foxy motoring services for men and women drivers in 2010.
FOXY Steph
