Cultural Differences...

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Henro

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In a different thread, Golfgar4 translated "Henro" for his wife. "Strange bird" was the translation... /forums/images/graemlins/cool.gif

After sending my wife off to Japan for a month yesterday, I returned from the airport to find a note in the downstairs bathroom...(see attachment)
 

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I could not help but apply Golfgar4's translation methods to the message...(see attachment)

Note: These trips back to Japan for recharge seem to be working less and less as the years go by... /forums/images/graemlins/crazy.gif
 

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I thought maybe she was tellin you to learn how to use the handle and flush. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
 
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Henro,

I can see who is boss ....................so just fix it /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

HA HA!!! you're no different to the rest of us /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
 
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Interesting Henro. Which tractor will you use in this project /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif
 
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You at least got a written message..... my wife calls the main telephone line and leaves messages for me on the answering machine. /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif Sometimes she even leaves reminder messages for herself... /forums/images/graemlins/crazy.gif /forums/images/graemlins/crazy.gif
 
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</font><font color="blue" class="small">( my wife calls the main telephone line and leaves messages for me on the answering machine. )</font>

Sounds familiar! The other night, I was working in the basement in my shop when the phone rings. I pick it up, and it's my wife calling from the bedroom (2 floors up) to remind me that I needed to call the water softener people to get some salt delivered! Seems she had just remembered that little fact, and didn't feel like walking downstairs (1 floor) to leave me a note. I responded by suggesting that she didn't even need to worry about that at all, because she certainly was capable of calling the water softener people herself to get them to deliver the salt.

"But, but........that's YOUR job!" /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif

I bet you can figure out what my response to that statement was! /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif /forums/images/graemlins/smirk.gif
 
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Henro, what I saw was a lack of respect and a general difference between the male & the female of the species.

SHE pinned the note to the wood, leaving a hole that will exist forever (even in a seam) so that long after you fix the darn thing, you will forever be reminded of the problem by that little pin hole. And just like the memory cells that wives seem to have, the little things NEVER go away, even years after they are fixed & resolved, there is something that will come up as a reminder.

Now YOU used a "post it" note for your translation which makes this a temporary situation. In the eyes of a MAN, once the toilet is fixed, the problem is gone. And once the "post it" note is removed, it is as if the problem never existed.

So, if you were like me, you would put an empty frame around that pin hole AND you would simply replace the entire throne so that SHE has a constant reminder of how good of a job you did at following her note. /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif

But then, I have admitted several times on this forum that I am a blunt **** jerk and am lucky that the lovely Mrs_Bob puts up with me. . . so maybe you shouldn't follow my lead.


<font color="red"> I was working in the basement in my shop when the phone rings. I pick it up, and it's my wife calling from the bedroom </font>
Garry, that is the reason you need to get caller ID, you wouldn't have to answer those pesky calls!!!
 
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"I bet you can figure out what my response to that statement was! "

Ummmm.... Yes Maam. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
 
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</font><font color="blue" class="small">( Ummmm.... Yes Maam. )</font>

Well, actually that was the 2nd response. /forums/images/graemlins/crazy.gif

The first was something along the lines of, "Oh, so now we each have specific jobs around the house? Right?"

Her response was, "No, just you!" /forums/images/graemlins/ooo.gif

That's when I figured out I should say, "Ummmm.... Yes Maam." /forums/images/graemlins/crazy.gif /forums/images/graemlins/smirk.gif
 

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