I thought this was an amusing anecdote that happened in my household this morning that is exemplry of male/female communication, or lack thereof.
Note that this is NOT a shot at my wife. I utterly adore her and don’t make fun of her, but this example is standard of the type I find between men and women.
Last night we had a power interruption. The power in this area is flaky and it’s to be expected at least once ever two weeks, it’s just the norm. This means all the major electronics are connected to a UPS to ensure their not going boom.
The A/C is not exactly something you can plug into a UPS though. Every time the power goes out, the A/C stops cooling but still blows air. You have to reset the fuses of which there are 4 located in different places of the house. I ran through a reset and it didn’t seem to do anything for the cool, so I reset everything doubly again and told my beautiful wife to let it run through the night in case the coils were frozen (the normal air blows past the coils and gets cool, then comes out your vents) so they could thaw.
Geez that’s a long setup!
So this morning I woke up freezing. I asked My Honey if she turned the A/C back on (even though it was obvious, she likes it when I ask those silly questions) and she said, "Yeah, I worked on it a bit."
I asked, "How did you work on it?"
She replied, "Yeah, I worked on it and pushed some buttons."
I asked, "What exactly did you work on?"
She looked at me matter-of-factly, "I turned it on."
I was slightly confused for a moment, then finished, "…and the buttons?"
I got a scowl and she said in an even tone, "I used the ‘ON’ button!"
Yup. She worked on it a bit. And guys are the ones that get yelled at for not communicating what we’re stupposed to!
