“Anything you can do I can do better. I can do anything better than you—“
“Will you stop singing that stupid song?”
“It isn’t a stupid song. You just don’t want to hear it because it’s true. Girls can do anything as good as or even better than boys.”
His face turned red. “Okay, why don’t you put your money where your mouth is?” He stepped back. “Try setting the tent up by yourself.”
“Okay.” She rubbed her hands together before getting to work. Eight minutes later the tent stood upright. “Well?”
“Well what?”
Shaking her head, she left.
100 Words
This was written for the Friday Fictioneers challenge hosted by Rochelle Wisoff-Fields For more details, visit Here. To read other stories based on this week’s prompt, visit Here.
Notes to Women 
Dear Adele,
Now I have that song running through my head. 😉 Thanks for the earworm. Well written conversation…of course the boy’s not going to admit when he’s been bested by the ‘weaker sex.’
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Shalom,
Rochelle
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🙂
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Dear Rochelle,
It started playing in my head even before I decided what I was going to write. You’re welcome 🙂 and thank you. No, he’s not going to admit to any such thing.
Shalom,
Adele
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I’m not sure the ability to put up a tent is gender specific, I think we all struggle – perhaps men just don’t admit to it 😉
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You’re right, Iain. It has nothing to do with gender. And we all struggle when it comes to admitting that someone can do something better or as well as we can.
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Hah! To be fair, I know men who cannot build the simplest thing and women who cannot do any better … I also know men AND women who can pretty much make tents out of thin air. So … I’ve gotta at the very least say that gender has nada to do with it … 😉
Well done, you!
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I agree with both Iain and you that this has nothing to do with gender. Thanks 🙂
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I do like being agreed with … 😉
Great fun, that!
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Well he could at least have had the grace to admit that she was as capable as him. Thought provoking story.
Susan A Eames at
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Pride wouldn’t allow him to do that. Thanks, Susan 🙂
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Never admit defeat… Good one and good use of the song.
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Nice!
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Thanks for the earworm! I can just picture this whole scene. Well done.
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Not ashamed to admit at all that I can’t put up a tent, even a baby one!
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The battle of the sexes, an eternal war of attrition and denial! Funny take, so true.
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LIke the others, now that song is binging around my brain. Fun story, but he could have acknowledged her accomplishment! =)
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Okay young lady, now try taking it down and getting it back into that teeny weeny bag! You can? Oh well!
My story – Gail’s Gazebo!
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Eight minutes!, what were you doing – oh, multitasking on the phone.
I do the cooking, we don’t want anything burnt.
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Oh, he played his part too well. Something tells me that he knew exactly what he was doing… boys are good at getting girls to do the hard work.
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I think her talents will always go unappreciated.
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If he really had to throw a challenge, he should have thought something more difficult. May be he was trying to come closer by making her angry. Men and women work in different ways.
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Yup. That’s about it. And I have the earworm too 🙂
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I’m happy the song struck a chord with you, Linda 🙂
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Okay, so he reneged on his deal, and she won! Good for her and very unseemly reaction of him. Nice Story!
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Thanks, Nan 🙂
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Great take. She showed him!
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Thanks, Lisa 🙂
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A cute story, Adele. Maybe it was his clever way to get her to do it because he knew he couldn’t. 🙂 — Suzanne
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Thanks, Suzanne. You might be right about his motives 🙂
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Haha. Shut him up
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