true Philip...I find that people respond differently to you once they figure out your gender...although I haven't tried to cover it up in here at all despite my gender neutral user name....
I have just remember a song saying that a sewing machine is a girls best friend. I am sure that was true - once. Rather like LeRoy Anderson's The Typewriter - I expect that that is obsolete now.
A plastic surgeon, and his equipement and drugs are most definetly not my friend. they r my worst enemy.