A.R.
A long time ago I had to take a spaghetti sauce jar to the utility guy across the street. I waited from him to shimmy down the pole and then politely asked him if he could open the jar. He gave me a funny look but complied. I thanked him and went back in the house to finish dinner. I could hear the guy chuckling as I walked away. My husband was absolutely mortified on my behalf when he got home and I told him what I thought was a funny story. With a pained expression he patted me on my shoulder and informed me that only worked because I was a girl. Well, what else was I supposed to do? The lid wasn’t budging and I thought that was a perfectly reasonable solution.