To think that DP cares more about the tools in his shed than he does me,..............

[lucyellensmum]

He's weird, OK so he has nice new tools that cost loads of money for his business. But does that mean he has to neglect me in order to play with them? So what if it has a 2" blad and 15HP engine that keeps tripping out the electric. So what if he has a drill that drills square holes!!

I know he has to work, but im getting worried - the way he strokes them and carresses them and the way he always jumps when i sneak up on him. You don't think that he has some sort of weird fetish going on do you? I mean, i keep finding powertool mags under the bed and in the bathroom. He sits and reads them for AGES. Nah, thats ridiculous, isn't it??

I;m off to google tool fetish

well at least he's only stroking his 'tools' in the shd... pmsl

Dh is like this but about gadgets and cycling stuff!!! Spends HOURS salivating over Wiggle which I wouldn't mind except it eats into my MN time !

Has he made one of those boards to hang them all on yet? You know, the ones with the nail to hang and an outline drawn on, so that he knows whats missing!

I've got a DH just like that!

Oh no maureen its far more serious than that, he has mean machines!! He says things like "feel the power in that" and c'mon baby show me what you can do" Very sweaty when he leaves his workshop.

Actually its quite messy, all stashed away in corners. I wonder if he doesnt like to give each tool more or less attention in front of the others.

I often hear him talking to them, in the voice he used to use when trying to "persuade" me

I feel your pain. I bought him a new fancy ciircular saw for christmas once. I feared for my life and my furniture all day! He couldn't wait to cut something up!

I read the thread title and immeadiately thought of you.... before I knew you wrote it...

He really does love his work too much!!!

ycbs - why oh why i why can i never pull off a succesfull troll just bored and weird tonight as i have the headache from hell and probably shouldnt be here.

it's a guy thing, anyway. We have Guitarist magazines underneath our bath (and they aren't mine!! )

I'm just surfing too - DS is asleep and I daren't move him incase I wake him!!

You taken anything for the headache?

Men with circular saws, dying to saw things, made me think of this.

i think its just a bloke thing, my dh is the same about chainsaws and wood chippers! If i try to have a conversation with him thats not about trees, chainsaws etc then forgive me, but thats not interesting and he's off to play in his shed!

Trees and chainsaws

I used to work in wood preservation.

It is deadly frickin' boring!!!
I don't understand men!!!

ycbs - i bet that was an interesting job (im being serious). I often see jobs for woodland rangers etc, but im not qualified - be happy as a pig in shit in the woods all day i would

Yeah, its a guy thing, but THEN, he accused me of being a geezer bird cos I wanted to watch the football and he wanted to watch some sappy chic flick with jennifer anniston in it (and NO, sadly, its not cos he fancies her!)

i'm actually really enjoying Euro 2008

Are there quals for woodland rangers????

I'm an industrial chemist and learnt all i needed to know about wood decay and how to stop it 'on the job' - there were rooms full of bugs and fungus

My dh is like this about cycling stuff. Spends ages looking at cycling mags and catalogues and yesterday he nearly wet himself when he collected his brand new full carbon bike.

He even cleared out our understairs cupboard so it can live in the house. It has a cupboard all to itself inacse it gets knocked

I think they like you to have some sort of environmental science qualifications and i actually think there are NVQs/HNDs available. Not too sure ive not looked into it further than looking wistfully at ads in the papers etc and thinking, hmmmm, if i'd done that i could have.........you konw how it is

honestly, you did the right thing steering clear of wood!!

boring and very sexist industry!!!!

has your DH stopped admiring his tools yet?

i just wish he would start using them!!!!!

But then he would get them dirty and then would be all nice and shiny!!

ANd any way, it's friday!!

pmsl- my DH is just like this. every small diy job in the house suddenly turns into a desperate requirement for a new tool and an emergency visit to B&Q. What man could go through life without an angle-grinder?

He is also into cycling and motorbiking- we have 2 garages and a "workshop". He gets really quite terratorial about them! if I mention I have been in there for something he wants to know why! I wouldn't be surprised to learn that men pee around the door to their shed/ garage- it seems to be the 21st century equivalent of a den. I leave him be- while he is loitering in his workshop, I have full posession of the remote control!