Are ladies mad or men lazy?

[Dujon]

All I did this lovely morn was to move a filing cabinet from my downstairs workshop to what is now known as 'The Office'. The latter is a spare bedroom from which I post.

Mrs Dujon decided to become involved. So far I have re-sited myriad pieces of furniture, ripped the (admittedly rotted) base off her dressing table stool - still to be finished as I don't have material to hand to give her ample backside support (but this is still under discussion) and cleaned, vacuumed, washed, dried just about everything within a 50 metre radius of the newly installed cabinet.

Now she's talking about the garage. The garage, for heaven's sake! I know that some of my 'stuff' lives there, that is an incontrovertible fact, but at least (and I'm being kind here) 50% of the 'stuff' - there's not room for the car - is hers.

Ladies, please, give us a bit of leeway; moving one two-drawer filing cabinet should not lead to a wholesale reorganisation of the house.

Then again, maybe my lovely wife (yes, I love her to bits) is just different.

Maybe I should be pleased as she hasn't yet mentioned the garden shed (the no roll-off roof one) . . . probably because the only thing in there that could be remotely related to myself is the lawn mower.

Ladies of the forum: please don't get me wrong, I'm as happy as the next fellow to plan and execute all the above exercises. Please note the word plan. Impulsiveness is not my middle name. Give us blokes time to think . . . er, please? :sadeyes:

[acropolite]

Sounds like you got off easily... Mrs Dujon must be related to HRH, or they were implanted the same instruction set at birth. I don't know about men being lazy but the cleanup strategy sounds identical. We recently had the Kids visit for a few days, the list was similar... Build a bathroom seat/storage device, clean the house and make it toddler safe, put up curtain rails, blinds and hang curtains, procure a sofa bed, tidy the garage, clean out all cupboards, did I mention some new instant lawn and clean the study/office. Tell her a man needs a few things incomplete in life otherwise he will have nothing so aspire to....:P

[mill]

Let me just tell you one thing, women can be dangerous when cleaning up , their stuff stays , your stuff goes.:whistle:

[Ric]

Hi John, it all sounds perfectly normal to me. :lol:

Last weekend I told Kee I was going to clean some bird poop of a window and before I knew it she had me cleaning the whole house from top to bottom.
I suppose the moral for guys is: If you are going to do something around the house, dont mention that you are intending to.

Cheers :D

[jjjnettie]

LOL, I can imagine what she was thinking when she saw you moving that cabinet " Oh good, he feels like moving stuff today." "Honey, while your at it can we ...(enter chore here)...."
We have a "Garage Situation" as well.
He keeps his 2 bays neat and tidy by putting all his excess junk higgledy piggly in my bay. Then complains cause my side is untidy.
Ahhh, the joy of it all. If it isn't the spouse it's the kids.

[[1ponders]]

Well if your wife is alot younger than you it sounds very much like nesting instincts to me John :evil:

:lol:

[Dujon]

['Nettie] It's nice to know that at least some women have a sense of humour.

Unfortunately you are right. I have in the past suggested (usually after a decent meal - Mrs Dujon's cooking, not mine) and a couple of glasses of wine that it might be time to clean the tops of the kitchen cupboards. I'm still waiting for a refusal.

Today though was different . . . I was sober!

You'd reckon after 36 years of marriage I'd be used to it. *sighs*

[xelasnave]

Why dont I get in and have the opperation and fix that hernia???
Somehow it gives me a control on what I do like I have never had before;) :D ...
alex

[ving]

poor you john! i feel fer ya mate :)

[Dennis]

Don’t forget, Men are from Mars and Women are from Venus. Knowing this helps me understand everything about women, and enough about myself to stay out of too much trouble.

Cheers

Dennis

[ballaratdragons]

Good Grief John!!! The Garage/Shed is a 'Blokes' Place. :D
It's his Castle!!!!

Off limits to 'girl germs'!!! :lol:

[Dujon]

It's all over. Well, I think it is. It had better be, my back's not happy at the moment even though I am.

Why? you ask. I ducked down to the hardware store, grabbed a bit of some sort of compressed fibre material, cut it to size (OK, OK, I got the lads down there to cut it for me on their whizz-bang vertical saw thingywhatsit - but, hey!, I did the measurements and checked 'em before they attacked the stuff) and fitted it to the poor stool. All together now . . . Aaahh!

Of course it still has to be finished even though it is perfectly serviceable and unlikely to fall apart before I get around to bunging in a couple of screws. But that, as mentioned by Phil, is for another day.

Peace and goodwill to all men.


Addendum:

She (Mrs Dujon) noticed I'd done the 'fix' as soon as she walked into the bedroom. How can this be so? She was out on a Bush Care group meeting when I did the deed and there was nothing, absolutely nothing, to give away the game.

[Ric]

Hi John, they always know, dont know how but they always do.
It's how the girls keep us guessing all the time. :D

They are superior beings
But we can lift heavy things :rofl:

Cheers