MEN and thier "help"

[Kassaundra]

What is it w/ men and thier noisy toys???? When I go out to weed the garden it is so pleasently quiet. I can hear the wild birds singing, the shovel slicing through the moist dirt w/a swoosh, the excited chickens clucking contentedly for their share of the bug loot, and all is well in the world. Then Gary comes over w/ his new "toy" to help me, it is a tiller attatchment to his weedeater, now the only thing I can hear is the roar of the gas motor, and the choking stench of the gas motor. Now instead of pulling out whole runner grass roots in one fell swoop, now I have gajilliouns of tiny root pieces all ready to make more runner grass if I miss even the tiniest piece!!!!! MEN!!!!!!

 

[NwMtGardener]

Haha, i can totally sympathize!! I get the neverending barrage of unanswerable questions... Why is this like this? Whats going to happen to this plant? Etc etc etc...i really prefer the peace and quiet when i'm in the garden by myself!

 

[so lucky]

This sounds like the equivilent to the old cliche' about a girl hanging around the garage while the guy is trying to work on his car. They just want to be near you!

 

[digitS']

Okay, just put it down to "provocation."

One of my earliest posts on TEG: (click)

You should know, I suppose, that I've replaced both tillers I mentioned with their newer models. They are all but identical and I use them as seldom as I can get away with. Meaning mostly, that when DW thinks I'd be better off using them - that's when they are most likely to be used.

Steve

 

[retiredwith4acres]

OK, I am not going to complain about DH helping because he has saved me so much work. BUT, he has 3 "antique" Gravely walk behind tractors with attachments. Talk about LOUD! He wears ear muffs! I don't have any. But it doesn't take him long and it works the ground so perfectly! It would take Mom and me hours to make the ridges he does for potatoes in just a few minutes. SO, don't like the noise, BUT it doesn't last long. lol Besides he is more a late afternoon person and me an early morning person. lol

 

[Detlor Poultry]

Gee, and all this time I thought women were impossible to understand; you lady's don't understand men AT ALL.

 

[Just-Moxie]

Men...simply...LOVE their toys. The noisier the better.

 

[skeeter9]

Boy that's for sure, Moxie! I think there's a class men take when they are young. . . .

 

[897tgigvib]

That's true. In grade school when us boys had to stay in because we were "in trouble" for throwing spit wads, those were really "noisy tool" classes that we weren't supposed to ever talk about.

For extra credit I poked holes in lawn mower mufflers. Heck, my little brother just did the simple little kid things like attaching old playing cards to the bicycle frame so the spokes slapped it noisily. Course, now he has his 12th Harley...

Chain Saws and Leaf Blowers are great for noise!

Is it any wonder ole guys like me are always saying "huh?", or "what's that again?". Ya have to speak louder than the ringing in the ears, else you'll never be heard!

 

[vfem]

Man... my husband is carpenter. Mainly because of all the loud crazy power tools!

It's a man thing.... I just ignore him or him if it annoys me. I swear he only builds me chicken coops to shut me up when he buys a new toy!