Bob,
I'm in the same situation as you, but with a twist. My wife can pretty much handle any kind of power tool you can throw at her. Heck, most of the carpenters on the jobs that she's involved with would rather see her show up than their boss. She understands the language and the techniques, so it's easy for her to talk and work with the guys.
But her problem is leaving tools behind. She's ALWAYS forgetting some tool or another at a job site, and more often than not - it's one of my tools! /forums/images/graemlins/mad.gif
I had just purchased a new Black & Decker battery operated drill/driver about two weeks earlier. I go down to my shop to get it for a project, and I can't find it. Since she and I are the only two people in the house, and I know for a fact that our Yorkie hasn't figured out how to use it, I go to her and ask what she did with my drill. "Oh, I borrowed it to use on a job." So I ask her why she borrowed it, when I had bought her two - not one, but TWO - drills just for her. See, in my ignorance, I figured if she had her own drills, she wouldn't borrow mine. Silly boy! /forums/images/graemlins/crazy.gif
She says, "Well, the batteries were dead in my drills."
So I ask why the batteries were dead. Silly boy # 2! /forums/images/graemlins/crazy.gif /forums/images/graemlins/crazy.gif
"Well, I forgot to charge them up."
So I said, with my tongue firmly planted in my cheek, that it was easier to steal my drill than to charge her batteries?
"Right", she says!
"O.K. then, where is my drill?"
"Well, I think I left at So and So's house".
"You think? You don't know?"
"Well, that was last week, so I can't be sure."
"Do you think you could remember and maybe find it for me?"
"Well, probably. But until I do, why don't you use mine?" /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif
"Uh, D E A R , your batteries are dead, remember?"
"Well, why don't you charge them up?" /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif /forums/images/graemlins/ooo.gif /forums/images/graemlins/mad.gif /forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif /forums/images/graemlins/crazy.gif /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif
Gotta love those ladies! /forums/images/graemlins/smirk.gif