On 12/22/2010 8:25 AM, Jeff Thies wrote:
On 12/22/2010 7:43 AM, Steve B wrote:
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Wives don't understand home repair.

W: What are you doing today?
H: I need to install that last 4x5 area of insulation in the attic.

Seven hours later I come home to a skeptical wife. Seven hours because:

To install that 20 square foot of insulation and finish the attic
portion
I need to first install the bathroom vent duct.

To install the duct I need to locate the fan assembly. To locate the fan
assembly I need to trim some plaster. Before I can trim the plaster, I
need to cover a hole in the floor to minimize the mess.

And I went ahead and installed the fan to hold the duct in place.

Geez. I knew what I had to do!


--
Colbyt

Never complain, never explain.

What are you doing today?
Nothing, and you?

Genius!

Women think differently than men. It is much better that they both just
operate on their own systems and not try to get the other to change
over. So, nothing....

No, not quite ) Hubby and I WOULD do things the same way IF I were as
strong as he and IF he cleaned up the mess I made ) I can do a lot of
stuff around the house, but have to "engineer" it a lot more because he
was much stronger than I. And more patient. He fiddled around trying
to solder a new outside faucet for FOUR HOURS, but couldn't get the
water out of the pipe. I would have offered help sooner, but really
wanted to see how dang long he would mess with it. He had the faucet
open of course, but I finally went out and opened one that was lower
than the one he worked on )

I've had two instances recently where a woman gave up on a task that
took me less than a second to complete. No explaining that! Not without
no end of expaining and no satisfactory end result.

Jeff