On Dec 23, 11:29*am, "Steve B" wrote:
"Heather Mills" wrote in message

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On Wed, 22 Dec 2010 07:26:15 -0800 (PST), Cindy Hamilton
wrote:

On Dec 22, 9:35 am, "Steve B" wrote:
"Colbyt" wrote in message
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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!

Well, why didn't you tell your wife when she asked, rather
than leaving her in the dark?

--
Colbyt

From my experiences, women just want to see results.

I built a house. I'd take my wife there daily or every other day to see
the
progress. What I was seeking was her approval. During the framing
process,
she could grasp nothing except that the workmen had left their lunch
sandwich wrappers and Coke cans on the floor. She did not notice that
they
had framed several walls, or put the trusses on, etc. It got worse, with
her picking apart every minute detail, every scarred stud, every hanging
wire that was awaiting a receptacle. I finally just had to bring her
once a
week, or at the end of a stage of construction where she could see a
final
result, i.e. after the drywall was up, after the painting was done,
after
the cabinets were hung, etc.

When we explain or even describe what we are doing, it's just a search
for
approval, and that's not going to happen because most women don't
understand
that it really does take seven hours to put in a little insulation when
you
run into things that you never expected before you popped the first bit
of
sheetrock off. So stop seeking it, and bring them in when the job is
done
enough so she can see definite progress, or that stage is covered up,
and
there's just some sort of finished work to cover the internal exposed
parts.

And don't turn it over to her until you say so, or she'll have the pots
in
the cabinets before you even have the range/stove/oven installed.

AND tell her not to talk to the hired help. That's your job.

HTH

Steve

Balls.

Sorry, I mean, "It depends on the wife".

Although I don't fully understand every detail of a project, and
my husband's skills are far superior to mine, I'm right there
with him on every project. *I've got pictures of me working
concrete, using the pneumatic nailer or the compound miter
saw. *Usually it's faster and easier for him to do stuff himself,
so I hand him things, run out to the workshop for something
he forgot (or didn't know he needed until he was into it),
run to Home Despot for something neither of us could find
in the mess that's his shop, etc.

Because I don't understand all the details, I sometimes
get a little panicky when things don't look as I expect,
but sometimes when I say "Hey, that doesn't look quite
right", he says "It isn't. *Thanks for pointing that out."
More often he says, "It's right; just wait until
the next bit is done. *Here's how they'll fit together..."

He wants to put in a pulldown attic stair and estimated
one hard weekend for the installation and another, easier
one for the paint and trim. *I said, "Nothing in this house
ever goes to plan; let's count on four weekends."
If I'm wrong, we get a weekend or two off.

Cindy Hamilton

I've been biting my tongue...

Show me a statement like "Wives don't understand..." and I'll show you
someone who has a sexist, one-dimensional view of the world. Are there
women who don't understand traditional male roles like construction?
Sure. Are there men who prolong adolescence well into retirement?
Sure. Stereotypes always have at least some small element of truth.
But those who focus on the stereotypes miss most of the real world.

In my experience, narrow, uni-dimensional people do not pair up with
enlightened, multi-dimensional people. I'm quite sure that men who
complain about their airhead wives are more or less equally
uni-dimensional at the other end of the spectrum. Conversely, women
who complain about their immature husbands, are more ur less equally
uni-dimensional at the other end of the spectrum.

These people find each other for a reason. The more enlightened people
won't have them.

Women don't understand that when it comes to carrying heavy ****, and doing
repetitive hard things, that they mostly just can't do it. *If they COULD,
you would have already seen them all over construction sites, on drill
floors, and iron working. *They may understand it better than men, so much
so that they can tell men exactly how it SHOULD be done, but leave them
alone to do it, and it will end up not finished because they ...........
whine, snivel, snork ........ just can't hoist up a piece of drywall and
nail it to the ceiling, or carry that 4 x 12 x 15' up the ladder and to the
peak, or unload three tons of bagged concrete USING ONE PERSON. *When they
do that, they are equal. *In the meantime, they're good for the limited
things they are good for, and then, failing miserably at those or performing
marginally.

"No try. *Do or not do." *- Yoda -

HTH, but I doubt it. *Now, go unload that pickup truck with 4,800# of tile
in it by yourself, and buy a vowel.

Get a clue!

Sheesh.

And get out of the ****ing way and go get busy baking cookies, or here's
$20, go get your nails done.

And FYI, I'd rather be teamed up with the female you deride. *The one who is
not into multi-tasking. *The less than multi-dimensional one. *The one who
does not consider herself an illuminati, and the rest of the world,
particularly men, dull bulbs. *What, exactly, is the word for the women's
equivalent of misogynist? *That is a woman who hates men. *No, not a
lesbian. *Give me a Sarah Palin type any day. *One who will go sleep on the
ground in a tent, be silently cold, who will shoot and gut a moose, yet be
kind and tender at the right moments, and not gushing estrogen and
platitudes or corrections to other people about things that she, personally,
cannot do. *And so what if she's good at sex. *That would make her just
about perfect.

Ah, Christmas is coming. *One can hope.

Steve

"Give me a Sarah Palin type any day"

And you know all about her - how?

From the articles and TV shows she's on? From her reality show on TLC?

This one?

http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critic...urrentPage=all

Same:

http://tinyurl.com/SarahsShow