It was my amusement at all three ladies absorbed with their phones, while sitting in front of the TV, not noticing the show was over that amused me.

Wouldn't it be wonderful to live with a lady who pumped her tyres up before destroying them by driving on them flat?

I'm going to put the 2 I have at home now right in it. When we had a mice/rat plague a while back, my wife drove her Toyota Cressida for a full week before remembering to tell me it was running "FUNNY", & getting worse.

When I looked I found a mouse nest between the cam covers, & 3 spark plug leads, that run through there, eaten through. Having been to town 5 times, she had done 250Km with the poor thing like that.

A couple of years back my daughter was changing units, & wanted to dump some furniture. As I had no trailer wiring on my TR7 at the time, we used her earlier type Holden Cruise, the Suzuki built sort of 4WD thing, with a Holden badge, to tow my old horse float.

I drove for her, & noticed on the service sticker it was 22,000Km since the poor thing had had an oil change. I insisted on picking up some oil, & changing it when we got home.

After draining, I poured some oil into one of those old glass oil bottles I use to avoid spilling oil on the engine when filling. When she saw the oil, my daughter said we must have the wrong oil, hers was black, not honey coloured like the stuff I'd bought.

I hope you wonderful ladies who have resisted addiction to soaps, are equally disinterested in the dreadful morning talk shows, I assume are designed to appeal to stay at home ladies. I reckon they are enough to drive intelligent ladies back into the workforce, just to get away from them.

Morning TV, Don't get me started on that rubbish! Maybe they are designed by me hoping that we will escape to the shed and work out where the bonnet catch is! Hehe.
And yes I can share your amusement about the phones. With a hint of sadness.
I must say, your car did very well to run at all with 3 spark leads chewed through! I have sold the whole spark problem with diesel power, much less temperamental. My father in law had a falcon on gas that he ran almost 30000kms over an oil change, I borrowed it for the weekend and to my horror spend almost an hour scooping jelly like oil out of the sump! His excuse, it wasn't black. The poor car smashed up a piston rather badly not long after that, I think it died of shock.

Hi Bec, those old Cressidas were pretty tough things. I still use that one around the paddocks with 377,000Km on it.

Yes it's not only the ladies I suppose. My father was a great horseman, in the light horse before WW11, but he was not too mechanically minded.

Whenever I drove one of his cars I would find the brake pedal almost on the floor. He would not notice they needed adjusting. About half the time the clutch would be slipping. He found it easier to slip the clutch, rather than change back a gear or two, in the old things he drove. It was a real relief to get him into something automatic, with disc [self adjusting] brakes.

I still remember when I was at school, him not understanding how to work the manual spark advance/retard lever on the steering wheel of his 1930 Dodge. The thing would climb the hill out of town, if you retarded it enough soon enough, but not for him.

Sorry you can have your diesel. I have enough of the stinking stuff in tractors & pumps, without getting it on me when filling the car. I'll stick to my 9000 RPM variable valve timing little Honda, or my old Triumphs in the car department

Lots of people have natural aptitude to manipulate a gadget designed for people who don't actually think. To be able to use an electronic gadget vs watching mindless TV is no indication of any degree of intelligence.
I as does shaggy dog know women who fly, dive, drive or in fact do anything as good as the best male. They're the intelligent ones. To make it big in today's society you don't need to be logical or competent, you just need to speak jargon & you're in. Even the PM's office is not out of reach in that regard, just look at the recent situation.

Of course, the funny thing is that in order to contribute to this thread, we are all indulging in tap-tapping away electronically.

PC - smart phone, it's all part of the same phenomenon.

So the next time you walk past someone tapping on a smart phone - they could be posting a comment on OLO

(Bec, it's nice to see you've become a regular. You may have noticed that were a bit light on women around here:)

As an old lady needing care my mother went into a nursing home. After one of my visits a staff member told me my mother was antisocial. I asked her why she said that. "Your mother stays in her room and reads rather than watch the soaps with the others." Since my mother had never had much interest in soaps it seemed unreasonable to expect her to develop an interest in them at her advanced age.