Mars and Venus

This is my very first job in retail.  (unless of course you count the almost two decades I was in the airline industry)  But it really is the first time I have seen just how differently men and women handle money.

It amazes me that a little thing like financial transactions can highlight the differences between the sexes.  I first thought that all this "Mars" and "Venus" stuff was marketing crap.  But now I get to see it in action every day.

Now understand my comments are in no way meant to be sexist.  However, like Kathy Griffin says: "In my own narrow observation, it is my experience that..."

• Men have their minds made up on their beverage selection before they arrive at the counter
  
• Women generally do not
  
• Men have their money in their hands ready to pay
  
• Women generally do not
  

What is it about purses that cause women to stuff, tuck, fold, wad, and otherwise hide their money so that it takes three or four times as long to complete their transaction?  Men thrust their cash right at you before you even can say the total.

Believe it or not, there is indeed something Freudian about this.  You think I'm kidding?  Read this article!  I'm over 40 years old and had never heard, until recently, that a woman's handbag is an external manifestation of certain anatomical parts!

Good old Freud!  He could put a spin on anything, couldn't he?

Seeing this difference in money made me wonder (especially since tomorrow is the election):  Since men and women manage something so simple as handling money so differently, how differently would they run the world?