I've tried that with my other half.
I get about two sentences into it (no technical stuff, just 'don't do that, it doesn't make a difference') and she just switches off and says 'it's too complicated for me'.
Mind you, I expect I'm the same when she witters on about cooking or soaps or whatever it is she's saying when I'm not listening ;-)
In message , Mary Fisher writes
Exactly, by solving the problem (like most men would do) instead of assisting their womenfolk to use their own brains to work out the solution themselves. :( or :)
The message from "Mr Sandman" contains these words:
Women in general haven't a clue what a thermostat is. But all our TRVs in this house, have upper and lower limit stops which can be set to prevent the rad being turned down too low or up too high. Or can be used to lock the head at any point in its range. Problem solved as far as the TRVs are concerned. The open windows are another story and I haven't got the answer to that one. Yet.
i have! so many times!
Steve
Wife pays for land line phone, electric and gas, but she always leaves the kitchen to hall door open with our bedroom window and bathroom window open. I have tried time and again to tell her how much energy she is wasting, but let me leave the bathroom light on and I have to get a needle and thread to put my neck back together again :-(
Dave
Well, they are an outside type of dog. Perhaps he likes the cold when he blocks the draught :-)
Dave
8's by about an inch?
Dave
Not if Steve had gone out for a while and switched his mobile off ;-)
Dave
Why am I not surprised ?
:-)
Mary
Not well enough!
Mary
That's a silly thing to say.
There's no point in complaining unless you're prepared to do something about it. If you can't be bothered don't grumble.
Mary
You mean you can SEW???
But that's women's work ...
Mary
The easy way out :-)
Mary
I've just realised something.
You all married airheads. What can you expect? It's your own fault!
Mary VBG
Hmmm!
Steve
But that is what the average man, married to the average woman, is saying. I have a wife that constantly leaves the kitchen door (that opens up to the stairs) wide open when we have the bathroom window and several bedroom windows open and does not realise that all that cold air is coming down to all that warm air and the warm air is going out of the windows :-(
Dave
Don't you believe it! They can remove an upper stop before you can pour a beer!
I can use a sewing machine like an expert. (I was trained as a fitter, so I know how things have to go together.)
Due to my childhood asthma, (my mother taught me all this) I can knit, chroche, sew and use a sewing machine. Not too long ago I made some stretch covers for our modular settee.
One thing I can not do, is to turn up a pair of trousers. I don't have that light touch to pick up the outer threads of the trousers, so it is not obvious outside of the leg :-(
Dave
In message , Mary Fisher writes
:)
Yep, but I've tried the alternative & the venom at my (perceived) refusal to be the instant-solver-of-all-problems was intolerable.
Steve would then return to find the most expensive rogue-traders in Yellow pages providing their 'best' quotes for the absolutely essential replacement of the faulty & underpowered boiler.
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