Trout

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I was away on business for a couple of days and wifey (T) calls me from her mobile asking me what I did to the house phone before I went as it doesn't work anymore.

I come home this afternoon and have to move various bits of very heavy furniture to check the socket, connection etc. All good. BT line test - all good.

No dial tone; no ringing in - BUT the Broadband is working.

There are four sockets around the house - eventually find that one is working - the entry point socket.


After and hour of this - the guy who we use for odd jobs plastering and decorating asks me what I am doing. I tell him. So he asks - when did the phone stop working.

T then pipes up and says the only thing I asked him to do was take that old plastic box off the wall and plaster it in. Oh, yes there were some wires in it but they weren't connected so I got the plasterer just to push them back through into the wall.

DOH!! DOH!! DOH!!

the hamster

iTrader: (7)

I get a lot of customers with blown master sockets, so the test socket works but any auxillary sockets dont as theyre connected to the front plate, but i've never heard of anyone filling one in!

Depending on how yours is wired will depend on how easy it is to fix but I wouldnt ring BT unless you want a large bill.

corradoboy

I was fitting a bannister last week, and as I don't have a second set of arms 4m long with their own set of eyes, I needed her to line up the bottom bracket whilst I sorted the top one. Needless to say, her bracket was ****-eyed. Add that to all the rounded screw-heads, plugs and screws wrenched from the wall, broken stuff and general destruction that is a wimminz doing decorating.

I also got an ear-bashing for chatting to the neighbour for an hour. Given that I did 40hrs work at one job, and 10 at the other. On Tuesday I looked after the kids for her whilst she worked for just 2hrs, and managed to do 3 loads of washing, rake the garden of leaves, sweep the drive and house front, do everyones breakfasts, dinner and tea, clean and dress both kids for the day, undress and prep them both for bed, enjoy a Burger King, and a Costa Coffee, price up some carpet, and call at B&Q for the bannister parts. Then on Thursday I again took care of everybodies feeding and clothing, called again at B&Q, took the kids to school, fitted the bannister, cleared an 8' high pile of garden cuttings, took the kids to my Dads for a couple of hours, then cooked tea and put the kids to bed again. It would take her almost a year to do what I do in a week, and it would be done badly, wrong, and probably incomplete ready for me to finish it, and it would all be my fault ! She did tell me all about a good film she watched whilst I was working though, so she didn't just toss it off

Lee247

No just wimmins, Trout. I've got a bloke who has been saying for the last 3 weeks "yes I will put the new wall lamps up, take the radiators off so we can finish the decorating blah blab blah and bolloxed up the leccy plugs after the plasterer had been. He is on borrowed time

corradoboy

Oh, and then there's the tools. Those which haven't disappeared into a parallel dimension are either broken or ruined. It's funny, when I have a job to do, I do it, requiring no help apart from occasionally a spare pair of hands for something awkward. When she has a job to do I have to set aside a whole week to assist and be shouted at.

Jaybird-UK

Never question a man and DIY

Getting round to doing something is our right!

bigsinky

or touch another man's rhubarb

RobsyUK

iTrader: (2)

I'm not defending them but my woman is **** hot with a paint brush.... No need for masking tape - her edges are amazing... Shame she doesn't do edges when hoovering grrr

ALi-B

iTrader: (1)

Do it yourself

Lee247

Why have a dog and bark yourself

Switched the light on this morning and they all flickered. No idea what he's done now

Lydia72

Shouldn't the thread title be "Women - they shouldn't be allowed in"?

alcazar

iTrader: (2)

Mine is similar. When we work on the French house, I have to keep stopping MY job to get the lid off a tin of paint, find a brush for her, show her how to use a plasterers' skim for putting on render etc etc.

THEN, after she's done, I spend an hour or so cleaning up the stuff she'll have dropped onto a newly laid surface and then trodden all over the house

This summer, mind, she did help me make 16 holes at 2.5m height in a stone wall in order to socket beams, then helped me lift up and align beams. The cementing in I did myself. Out of the 16 holes, she did 7 herself with a 2lb hammer and small chisel, since she found the 4lb hammer I offered to heavy.

So not all bad.

Mikej857

Dont even get me started on this one!!

We've thankfully just finished our house after pretty much a total refurbishment and me being stupid I said I'd fit the kitchen myself, well what a ****ing mistake that was, my wife changed the layout mid fitting then she complained we were making too much noise or it was taking too long so in the end I said if you dont ****ing like it fit it yourself...needless to say she didnt utter another word till it was finished and then said I'd done a fabulous job and it wouldnt have looked so good if she hadnt helped though....I will not be doing another kitchen again it was a nightmare from start to finish due to the cowboy who lived in our house before us

Aaron1978

iTrader: (12)

A recent survey found one in three women are just as stupid as the other two.

Trout

iTrader: (1)

At least he is not taking things that are working and due to a complete lack of sentient presence, ruining them!


the rest of the quote is Women - they shouldn't be allowed out...


...of bed!!!

pslewis

You sure it wasn't your 'Lady-Toy' which you switched on? I heard the towns lights dim when that gets going

Lee247

Who needs toys

Lee247

Oh he is. The lights were fine until he started faffing about with them