Rory Gibson reveals the one thing women should never do

I know we are in holiday mode, but if you don’t mind I’d like your opinion on an issue of great importance before we all clock off for the year.

I KNOW we are in holiday mode, but if you don’t mind I’d like your opinion on an issue of great importance before we all clock off for the year.

It’s the sort of thing that can be a relationship killer, and it has certainly put some termites in the woodwork of mine.

I was visiting my lady friend when she asked me to bring the washing in. No dramas there. Happy to help.

RORY GIBSON REVEALS WHY HE’S AN EMBARRASSING DAD

RORY GIBSON: THE BREAK UP I DIDN’T SEE COMING

She is an avid peg user. I’m ambivalent about peg use, but I respect another person’s right to employ pegs as they see fit.

She is an avid peg user. I’m ambivalent about peg use, but I respect another person’s right to employ pegs as they see fit.

So I’m taking in the washing, and as part of the process I put the spent pegs in the peg bag which is hanging on the clothesline … their natural home I would have thought.

But no. Apparently I was doing it all wrong.

“We leave the pegs on the line in this house,” says the squeeze in a tone that attempted to be a lighthearted but was actually a rebuke in disguise. It was code for “You idiot, why would you put the pegs back in the bag?”

I’ll get to why in a second, but first let me point out something all women would do well to remember if they want successful careers in romance: you can ask a man to do anything for you, but for the sake of harmony don’t tell him how to do it.

So, the moment I realised that instead of receiving the thanks of a busy household I was being hung out to dry for my peg management preferences, I went to war.

My defence centred around (a) the fact there was a peg bag hanging on the line indicated that was where they lived when not at work and (b) people who leave pegs on the line are incredibly annoying, because they create extra work for the next person who wants to hang stuff out. The pegs have either to be moved to make space for the item to be dried, or you have to retrieve pegs from the other side of the clothesline because you’ve used all the ones in the conveniently located bag.

Neither of us is backing down. Where do you stand on this issue?