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By 'Drill wealding 20 somethings' I do not mean mass murder with electric power tools a la Patrick Bateman, it has more to do with Joey Tribbiani's clash with an electric drill although preferably without almost performing a craniotomy on a close friend.
No my friends, I speak of the almost total lack of DIY skills possessed by the potential husband material that is out there right now. I mean is there a point at which men suddenly become adept at handy work, or are we facing a national DIY skills crisis which will lead to a boom in vaguely skilled cowboys?
If it is part of the whole boys becoming men process, at which point does the transition begin to occur? When the first house is bought? When the first child is due and the accomplishment of building the flat packed cot fuels enthusiasm for demolishing the kitchen and taking the next 5 years to rebuild it?
I wouldn't have trusted my ex with a paint brush let alone electric power tools.
Rather than wasting time on D&T (do they still call it that?) in school and having us all make pencil holders out of blocks of wood they should be teaching how to put up shelves and paint skirting boards.
Its not that I can't do any of these things myself but there is no way that I want to spend Sundays in my future drilling dirty great big hole in my walls while my husband walks around in a pinny cooking the Sunday Roast!
No my friends, I speak of the almost total lack of DIY skills possessed by the potential husband material that is out there right now. I mean is there a point at which men suddenly become adept at handy work, or are we facing a national DIY skills crisis which will lead to a boom in vaguely skilled cowboys?
If it is part of the whole boys becoming men process, at which point does the transition begin to occur? When the first house is bought? When the first child is due and the accomplishment of building the flat packed cot fuels enthusiasm for demolishing the kitchen and taking the next 5 years to rebuild it?
I wouldn't have trusted my ex with a paint brush let alone electric power tools.
Rather than wasting time on D&T (do they still call it that?) in school and having us all make pencil holders out of blocks of wood they should be teaching how to put up shelves and paint skirting boards.
Its not that I can't do any of these things myself but there is no way that I want to spend Sundays in my future drilling dirty great big hole in my walls while my husband walks around in a pinny cooking the Sunday Roast!
