One of my favorite vignettes (paraphrasing): “It doesn’t pay to look too closely at the dishes after it’s the men’s turn to do the washing up”
"The cardinal difficulty," said MacPhee, " in collaboration between the sexes is that women speak a language without nouns. If two men are doing a bit of work one will say to the other, ' Put this bowl inside the bigger bowl which you'll find on the top shelf of the green cupboard.' The female for this is, ' Put that in the other one in there.' There is consequently a phatic hiatus." He pronounced this so as to rhyme with 'get at us.'