@Gwendolyn2018 yes, but saved her £4,000 in having the entire house re-wired, which is what the electrician suggested

@Gwendolyn2018 to be honest, she just got a second opinion and the guy turned out to be a professional who new what he was doing

Some elephants are illogical for sure...especially the ones that scream at the sight of a mouse despite the fact that a mouse has never attacked or killed an elephant in the past thousands of years. All elephants are illogical for sure...especially the ones who scream at the sight of a mouse despite the fact that a mouse has never attacked or killed anyone in the past thousands of years.

@godef You do know of course, that it is a myth that elephants are afraid of mice?

@dahermit Actually, I don't know how may name got attached to that message, I never wrote that.

@Gwendolyn2018 "It is also a stereotypical folk belief that women are afraid of mice." Stereotypical or not, my wife is afraid of mice.

"By the way, godef's post was sarcasm--but you knew that, right?" As a High Functioning Asperger's Syndrome person...no, sarcasm is lost on me. Everything is interpreted at face value.

@Gwendolyn2018 Where did I say ALL women were afraid of mice? I said, "...some women...". Nevertheless, it is common (frequent) to observe women who are afraid of mice. So what? "I s'pose I should assume that all men are afraid of snakes based on him, eh?" Jesus Christ! Read my original post>

@Gwendolyn2018 Sigh...Your first husband committed suicide...didn't he? (putting gun to my head)

@Gwendolyn2018 "...made no mention of men who might have similar issues." Inasmuch as the original poster only referred to women, "...do women not understand logic ?" I did not feel obligated to involve the shortfalls, failings of men...you will no doubt handle that task with more aplumb than I can.

@Bendog , Recently, a friend of mine had her brake line go out. I put a sheet of cardboard under the car and told her to leave it their for a while, so I could find where the line was broken. I found it and told her I could replace the line in a couple hours. She basically told me "I don't trust you. You don't know what you're doing" and she had it towed to a local Firestone garage.

Two days later and $650.00 later (Yes, $650!), she got her car back. Right away, she noticed the brake pedal going all the way to the floor. I had enough and took matters into my hands. When I got under the car, I found that the reason they didn't bleed the brakes properly was that they had stripped all the bleeder valves and snapped one of them completely off. I wound up spending around $50 and replaced two drum brake calipers and the original line that was supposed to be replaced. They had simply crimped it so it wouldn't leak.

@Bendog , Wow. I'm just too honest to be a mechanic, I guess.

@Gwendolyn2018 , so, when they are shocked about me being able to do mechanical work, it's because I'm too smart to be a mechanic. now it makes sense! Thank you