“… I guess you are putting your legs up today” said the elderly man. “Nothing like that”, replied the young lady. “I have to do the laundry, clean the house, cook dinner, do homework for the children, do their hair, take care of the pets, go grocery shopping etc.” Has he not been trained yet? Asked the elderly man. Who? The young lady ask. “Your other half, your man, your husband, your boyfriend” responded the elderly man. Trained! She was puzzled. “Nobody ever told me he needed training, if anything I thought he was fully trained. Moreover he behaves like he knows everything. I just take it, he is lazy, mean, unkind and just leaves everything to me as he can clearly see all the things that needs doing, he lives in the house!” “No he can’t”, replies the elderly man, “men are blind, he said, they are simple beast, lateral animal”. The young lady was in a state of shock, she felt someone has done a fast one on her. She went into one, “but the store, yes the store, where I got him from, they told me he was fully trained and could see, they actually said he had 20:20 sight and could lead the pack!”
A man once said, that a woman is like an Ikea product! You see a beautiful furniture advertised and you are taken by the beauty, the aesthetic, you can’t wait to lie on your bed, sit on your sofa, show your furniture to your friends. You order the furniture, it arrives in a flatpack box, immediately you know there is a problem. You open the box and rather than a beautiful furniture, all you get is hundreds of bits of ‘who knows what’, some are already rolling away! Your heart sinks. Alright, there is an instruction manual, but you have no patience for that, moreover you hate DIY and for that reason you have no tools. So what does the man do? he yells at the bits on the floor and kicks it around. He cries ‘holy cow!’ the store has done a fast one on him. They advertised a fully assembled product, ready to use!
So there we have it, the untrained and unassembled. The woman is not a teacher, did not sign up for teaching. The man is not interested in DIY, he has no tools. Houston, we have a problem! So what do we do? the woman returns the untrained, and the man returns the unassembled and then peace reigns. But does it? I am not so sure as the woman still needs what she needs and the man still needs his furniture. Some will argue that some stores stock fully trained and fully assembled ‘ones’. Whilst I am inclined to partially agree, I think they are few and far between. I was wondering if a possible way to go round this, is for the woman to go on teaching course and the man to enrol on DIY course, then at least they can both teach and build each other up rather than kick and shout at the unassembled, or give the untrained the evil eye and silent treatment.
What about if the untrained refuse to be trained and the unassembled bits rolled away, never to be found? You ask. Then, Houston we definitely have a problem!!!
But, I will say give training/teaching/educating/assembling a go first! People rarely come fully ready for the task!
Beautiful Ivory 