Mrs insists on using my tools for whatever-however. Really irritates me. I tell her there is a proper tool for the job. I hand her a pair of my vice grips and tell her, it’s like using these to place the eyelashes on your customers. You have several different tweezers for how you place them. you use the ones best for the angle you’re working. Why use my screw driver as a pry bar!!!??? (or my good kitchen knives as scissors?)
People have their own goals and if facts get in the way, they ignore those facts and focus on the facts that make them think they are right. People, in general, do not care about being right but about being comfortable.
We have an understanding in our house. Barb doesn’t use my Snap On screwdrivers to open paint cans, and I don’t use her sewing scissors to cut paper. We’re a perfect couple.
DorothyGlenn Premium Member about 3 years ago
So long as you unplug it first.
Sanspareil about 3 years ago
sandpiper about 3 years ago
Old saying – where there’s a will there’s a way
The corelary – where there’s a way, somebody will
TMMILLER Premium Member about 3 years ago
Mrs insists on using my tools for whatever-however. Really irritates me. I tell her there is a proper tool for the job. I hand her a pair of my vice grips and tell her, it’s like using these to place the eyelashes on your customers. You have several different tweezers for how you place them. you use the ones best for the angle you’re working. Why use my screw driver as a pry bar!!!??? (or my good kitchen knives as scissors?)
kv450 about 3 years ago
Whenever Man devises “foolproof” devices, God creates bigger fools.
trainnut1956 about 3 years ago
There IS a reason some folks refer to a hammer as an Irish screwdriver….
DM2860 about 3 years ago
People have their own goals and if facts get in the way, they ignore those facts and focus on the facts that make them think they are right. People, in general, do not care about being right but about being comfortable.
SofaKing Premium Member about 3 years ago
We have an understanding in our house. Barb doesn’t use my Snap On screwdrivers to open paint cans, and I don’t use her sewing scissors to cut paper. We’re a perfect couple.
Richard S Russell Premium Member about 3 years ago
“The essence of systems analysis is picking out the correct wrench to hammer in the proper screw.”
amaneaux about 3 years ago
As someone once pointed out, most people use facts and statistics the way a drunk man uses a lamppost: for support, rather than illumination.
Scott S about 3 years ago
The proper tool isn’t always available so you use what is available. In the Army we called them “field expedients.”
RWill about 3 years ago
“And, you were not wrong the first time.”
Brent Rosenthal Premium Member about 3 years ago
It’s actually a metaphor
braindead Premium Member about 3 years ago
Some tools exist only to be misused.
Take, for example, the filibuster.
Night-Gaunt49[Bozo is Boffo] about 3 years ago
Any idea no matter how crazy you can find people who would follow it.
DadToFivePlus about 3 years ago
This is gold!