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Strategies & Market Trends : Piffer OT - And Other Assorted Nuts -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: AugustWest who wrote (62287)	12/21/2000 12:40:52 AM
From: HG	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 63513

Oh yeah, that dishwasher..... My husband will open the package, take out the stuff, line it up sequentially, open the instruction page and read the instructions....at which time my toddler will decide he wants to chew on the connectors....and the 2 yr old will decide he needs to do pottie... I will run to take the nails from the toddler and change the diaper. My husband will decide he has a headache and would like a cuppa tea. I will make the tea. After the tea, he will do some stretching exercises, and then goes back to poring over the instruction sheet, laying it on the floor...and checking each component and labelling it...softly, methodically, practically....."oh damn, where is the pen...honey can you please get a pen for me....?", "Could you pass the pliers", "Can you hold this while I read the assembly instructions", "Kabbu, don't TOUCH that", "dear can you move him from here".... The dog is fascinated by the screwdriver, it almost looks like a bone, ...she carries it away....""you dumb bitch, get OUT" of here.....honey can you please get the screwdriver from the dog, turn the TV down, put the kids to bed...I am doing some important work here....". "Okey darling, consider it all done"....the kids packed off to bed hungry, they're dragged off kicking and screaming...the dog is imprisoned in the garage and barks for the next 8 hours....instruction sheet, the instruction sheet, the instruction sheet...."I just can't figure out this instruction sheet.....", another cup of tea, more stretching.... A few hours later, the babies have cried their eyes out, they have even finished their nap, have been reprimanded several times, have had fun playing house by crawling in and out of the dishwasher....after n number of teas and tons of whining and whinging about how difficult these instruction manuals are and what an incomplete set of accessories the company has provided, I, his loving one and only wife, decide to put him out of my misery... Yours truely will smile and ask him to relax in front of the TV, prop him up with a blanket and a hot cup of tea and turn on the Howard Stern show.....she will throw the instruction manual in the bin, pull all the pieces together, play jigsaw with the accessories and plug in the nicely fitted dishwasher into place....all in under 15 minutes.... Yeah right, men are really good at fixing things.....