troutsqueezer
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The wife and I were cleaning up the leaves in the yard today.
I had my ATV with trailer parked nearby waiting for me to fill it with leaves using my plastic round-shaped leaf grabbers (those things work well). I can grab a lot at one time and toss them into the trailer. The wifey has control of the lawn rake. Her job is to keep the leaves in a singular pile as I scoop them up, inadvertently scattering some around in the process and leaving a small mess. When the trailer is full I drive the ATV down the hill and dump the leaves out of sight of the main house and return for the next load. My expectation is by the time I return, the wife would have spent that time raking those errant leaves into the main pile so as to further the process but no..... she's over there with the hose spraying the dirt specs off the white picket fence caused by rain splash. The leaves are still spread around willy nilly and I can't scoop them up when they are scattered like that.
"Honey...I thought you were going to pile these leaves up for me so I can scoop them."
"Oh...just a minute!" She finishes up watering the plastic fence (taking her time) and comes back over and begins to rake. I've already blown most of the leaves in the driveway into a huge pile and those are the ones I want her to focus on. Over at the edge of the driveway she suddenly notices one or two leaves that are wedged in between two rocks that line the driveway edge. She stops what she's doing, walks over there and claws at them with the rake. The rake is too big to fit in between the rocks but she keeps trying every angle to grab them. She could reach down and clutch them in her hand but no, she continues to claw with the rake. :confused3: Here I am, as happens whenever my wife and I work together on a yard project be it building a chicken coop or making a new flower bed, waiting for her to come to the realization that we are supposed to be working as a team. It will go much faster if we both monitor and anticipate what the other is doing.
However, I've learned not to say anything because it would do no good and could lead to bickering which I swore as a young man is something I would never do as I got older. But I do stand there and think to myself that this must be a fundamental difference between men and women. My wife is always amazed at how fast two men working together can get something done. Well...that is because men, when working together, naturally think like a team. I think it's in our DNA and hearkens back to when men had to go on the hunt and work as a team to feed the tribe. The women stayed back at the cave, cooking up mammoth casseroles and washing their hair.
Does this theory hold water?
I had my ATV with trailer parked nearby waiting for me to fill it with leaves using my plastic round-shaped leaf grabbers (those things work well). I can grab a lot at one time and toss them into the trailer. The wifey has control of the lawn rake. Her job is to keep the leaves in a singular pile as I scoop them up, inadvertently scattering some around in the process and leaving a small mess. When the trailer is full I drive the ATV down the hill and dump the leaves out of sight of the main house and return for the next load. My expectation is by the time I return, the wife would have spent that time raking those errant leaves into the main pile so as to further the process but no..... she's over there with the hose spraying the dirt specs off the white picket fence caused by rain splash. The leaves are still spread around willy nilly and I can't scoop them up when they are scattered like that.
"Honey...I thought you were going to pile these leaves up for me so I can scoop them."
"Oh...just a minute!" She finishes up watering the plastic fence (taking her time) and comes back over and begins to rake. I've already blown most of the leaves in the driveway into a huge pile and those are the ones I want her to focus on. Over at the edge of the driveway she suddenly notices one or two leaves that are wedged in between two rocks that line the driveway edge. She stops what she's doing, walks over there and claws at them with the rake. The rake is too big to fit in between the rocks but she keeps trying every angle to grab them. She could reach down and clutch them in her hand but no, she continues to claw with the rake. :confused3: Here I am, as happens whenever my wife and I work together on a yard project be it building a chicken coop or making a new flower bed, waiting for her to come to the realization that we are supposed to be working as a team. It will go much faster if we both monitor and anticipate what the other is doing.
However, I've learned not to say anything because it would do no good and could lead to bickering which I swore as a young man is something I would never do as I got older. But I do stand there and think to myself that this must be a fundamental difference between men and women. My wife is always amazed at how fast two men working together can get something done. Well...that is because men, when working together, naturally think like a team. I think it's in our DNA and hearkens back to when men had to go on the hunt and work as a team to feed the tribe. The women stayed back at the cave, cooking up mammoth casseroles and washing their hair.
Does this theory hold water?
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