Well, I was hoping for a rise of befuddlement out of either side but no one has verbalized one so I shall abandon that approach.

I think that the main reason that some men develop the belief that women, per se, dawdle in checkout lines or wherever is that they are the Great Adversary and that those same men are just not noticing, and therefore, not counting, when people of their own sex do it.

But, numerically, I imagine that more women take longer than most men because it tends to be the women who are flanked by children, women who are doing the weekly shopping, women who are trying to remember if they got eveything, so that they don't have to make a second trip.

(Besides, just how hard is it to whip out the wallet from your pocket? The woman is carrying all kinds of gear in her handbag or backpack, things ranging from toys for her child, books to be returned to the librar and tissues for the aforesaid child's nose, not to mention things that her spouse doesn't/can't carry.)

So buzz off, bobert.