Pat’s Point of View

The tribes which George Lackoff described as having a category of words for fire, women and dangerous things (in his book by the same name) were surely mistaken.

Women are the dangerous things!

Case in point, my wife, who in a temporary state of hormone-driven perplexity, thought she had the ability to bend the space-time continuum. Whilst I did not report this terrifying incident to the police, had I done so, their report would have read as follows (refer to diagram):

1. 5:15pm Suspect and victim driving along quite happily, along usual route taken to the city (indicated on map by green line). This route is used several times a week.
2. 5:16pm Suspect suddenly demands that the victim proceed straight ahead because it’s quicker!. The red line on the map indicates the route taken. Victim attempts to explain this route is longer but his actions are met with stedfast denial and not a little vicious hostility.
3. 5:19pm Victim pleads with suspect as to why they’re going this way. Suspect goes apeshit (it’s a psychological term). Tirade continues for several minutes.
4. 5:23pm Suspect realises this is the wrong way. The long, wrong way.
5. 5:28pm Victim and suspect re-join usual route. Suspect apologises, citing emotional instability.

Gotta watch out for those volatile emotions.

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Patrick Kennedy is a user experience strategist and design researcher based in Sydney Australia. He leads research activities that improve the user experience of cross-channel products and services; helping both designers and business decision makers in bringing those products and services to fruition. Read more.