Will I know the answers by 60?

[Carry Pine]

Below are listed some mysteries of life that I don't understand. Perhaps I will know the answers by the time I am 60??

1) Why does washing need to be done only on a Saturday even when the last 3 Saturdays have been raining?

2) Why do work shirts need to be ironed even when they are only worn around the yard for doing mowing etc?

3) Why does a TV have to be run on the lowest possible sound level when us old bu&^%ers admit to having hearing loss?

4) Why is verandah decking and outdoor furniture not allowed to be oiled? Is natural patina that important?

5) How is it possible to cut back a hedge to half its size and leave it with as much coverage as you started with?

6) Why can't you use a bathroom for 2 hours after it has been cleaned and a toilet for big jobs for 5 hours?

If you know the answers to any of the above, I acknowledge with respect the experience in life that you have had.

Carry Pine

[Ad de Crom]

Carry, don't ask for an answer on all these questions, life is to short, so enjoy life, make fun.

[Greg Ward]

Women are the cause of all problems.

Solutions can't be found

Just as we can't understand the big bang, with women, you've just got to make the best of it and try to live with imponderables.

Greg

[DavidG]

Below are listed some mysteries of life that I don't understand. Perhaps I will know the answers by the time I am 60??

1) Why does washing need to be done only on a Saturday even when the last 3 Saturdays have been raining?
Who washes on a Saturday.

2) Why do work shirts need to be ironed even when they are only worn around the yard for doing mowing etc?
What! Some one still has an iron.

3) Why does a TV have to be run on the lowest possible sound level when us old bu&^%ers admit to having hearing loss?
I get the controller. I set the sound level even when others cringe against the back wall.

4) Why is verandah decking and outdoor furniture not allowed to be oiled? Is natural patina that important?
I am too lazy to oil it.

5) How is it possible to cut back a hedge to half its size and leave it with as much coverage as you started with?
Who cuts a hedge. Let it be natural. See point 4.

6) Why can't you use a bathroom for 2 hours after it has been cleaned and a toilet for big jobs for 5 hours?
Who said. If you gotta go the go.

If you know the answers to any of the above, I acknowledge with respect the experience in life that you have had.

Carry Pine

edit : Forgot to add. Damn I am past 60......

[Carry Pine]

Women are the cause of all problems.

Solutions can't be found

Just as we can't understand the big bang, with women, you've just got to make the best of it and try to live with imponderables.

Greg

Please note that I did not mention gender anywhere!

CP

[tea lady]

Women are the cause of all problems.

Solutions can't be found

Just as we can't understand the big bang, with women, you've just got to make the best of it and try to live with imponderables.

Greg

Dear Oh dear Greg.

Bad day at the office?

[Greg Ward]

Gender has nothing to do with problem solving or problem generation.

It's a simple fact that the female of the species, in all species causes problems:

Spiders. The females in some types kill and eat their partners

Grasshoppers. They eat the heads off the male during sex

Dogs. No fights at the park unless you get two females there at one time (dogs that is)

Humans. Check Carry's concerns. No more needs to be said

Ants. You have the whole nest catering to one queen

Bees: as above


I could go on and on, but we are trying to solve monumental problems here for Carry and I just think that focus is needed on where the problems originate

Greg

[tea lady]

Oh! well!! If its important.......

But I think you are distracted from the main issues. There seems to be a problem of timing. Maybe a extra pair of undies would mean that washing could be done on Sunday. Thats one problem solved.

[Greg Ward]

You see Ms Tea Lady, if it weren't for females, the problem wouldn't exist..... for if there were no females, we wouldn't need undies

Greg

[Skew ChiDAMN!!]

From what I have seen, by 70 you'll have the life experience to find all the answers.

Unfortunately, by then you'll have forgotten the questions!

[rsser]

.... and make new friends every day ;-}

[astrid]

Here are one or two possible answers

Washing is traditionally done on monday, this i think had somthing to do bathing traditionaly done on sunday when the boiler was lit.

ironing work clothes, because our anglcan ethics says all workers must be clean and tidy or they must be bad workers. even if its the overworked 19th century housewife who had to do the ironing.

oiling deck, maybe past experience of last time you did it, (sticky dusty mess)

re bathroom because cleaning it is a hated chore and its nice to savour the sparkling cleaness for at least two hours.

Astrid

PS I do none of the above, if HWMNBO needs an ironed shirt, he can iron it himself

[tea lady]

You see Ms Tea Lady, if it weren't for females, the problem wouldn't exist..... for if there were no females, we wouldn't need undies

Greg

I don't know about that. The tools might get tangled.

[wheelinround]

I suggest a book Ëverything a Man wants to know about a woman"

[Greg Ward]

I think the cold breeze assists here; but we'll never know as we'll never have the chance to test your theory; there are just so many females on the planet....
In fact in Australia they outnumber males....but not in this forum.

Noting the superabundance of males in the forum, I think some of computer dating services could be shortly making a bid for the start up of a lonly hearts thread section, which will allow females entry into men's shed all over.
That will be interesting
Regards
Greg