People surprised by the normal
Specifically:

Queuing in a shop, watching all their purchases being scanned, and then demonstrating uncomprehending surprise when asked to pay. What do I need? Money? Where might that be? In my pocket? No. Other pocket? No. Handbag? Rummage, rummage. Ah, my purse. Which bit of this contraption has money in it? I wonder if I have the right change. Ooh my phone has a new message! etc

Arriving at the automated gates on the way out of the tube; the gate! How amazing! It hasn't opened, I wonder why not. Oh, my ticket! Where is it? Rummage, etc.

It might be sexist, but I think it might be down to men having fewer places to stash things, the worst culprits of perpetual surprise syndrome seem to be women, anyway, I will avoid being behind a woman in the dash for the train gate.
(aglet, Sat 6 Oct 2012, 21:30, 3 replies)

But then you get men at the supermarket who are stood there with their
wallets at the ready, looking all smug while their shopping piles up unbagged.
( Mrs Entity is in hiding., Mon 8 Oct 2012, 13:41, closed)

Men have more places to stash things
Inside jacket pockets x 2 (or more)
Outside jacket pockets x 2 (or more)
Front trouser pockets x 2 (or more)
Back trouser pockets x 2 (or more)
Shirt pocket(s)

Women have one: handbag

They can't use pockets; as it would 'spoil the line'. So they have to spend half an hour rummaging through a lot of stuff in one place, rather than just reach quickly into one place with nothing else in it.* Usually a lot more stuff than an equivalent bloke would have distributed about pockets (generally, no curling tongs/hairbrushes/makeup/sanitary products etc.)

*Unless they've put it somewhere else, in which case they have to spend half an hour checking every pocket. Twice.

And Mrs Entity's point still stands.
( shinyshinyscalp less a man, more a way of life, Mon 8 Oct 2012, 17:43, closed)

I've wondered about this
but surely "I only have one big handbag" is even more of an argument for getting your money/ticket whatever ready in plenty of time, or at the very least making sure you know where it is, instead of waiting until the last possible moment. Or am I being too rational?
(lolwhites, Mon 8 Oct 2012, 21:11, closed)