Men and women
Men and womenThe men and the women in my family are quite different in their ways of looking at things. The men in my family place value on what something can do. The women place value on what something looks like. The men are interested in acquiring things that will serve a physical purpose. When shopping, men look for things like features, performance, durability, and remote controls. The women tend to look for things that are described with words like "cute," "pretty," and "matches the carpet." Also, it seems that the more delicate an object is, the more valuable it is. An excellent example of this is our pencil sharpener. We have had it for as long as I can remember and it works better than any other pencil sharpener I have ever used. I tend to go through a lot of pencil points doing calculus and physics homework so I find this pencil sharpener very useful. My mother has deemed the pencil sharpener ugly and keeps it hidden under the coats in the laundry room. Every time I need to use it I have to walk into the laundry room, push all the coats back until I find the sharpener. It is mountedon the wall so there is no excuse for me to remove it from there and place it in a more visible (yet accessible) location. As a temporary fix to this problem, I simply sharpen about ten pencils all up front.
A more expensive item is also being under utilized because it doesn't match the ambiance of the house. This item is the Dolby Surround Sound home theater system my dad bought a few years back. It is all setup fine except for a very critical part, the speaker locations. In order for the system to produce the full affect, the speakers must be placed in a pattern encircling the viewers, creating a "sweet spot"." This allows the sounds to travel from one side of the viewer to the other and give the impression that a car has just raced by behind the viewer, or that an explosion to the front left has shot off debris that a viewer can hear land back behind him. Instead, the front speakers are placed adjacent to the television, but not centered, and the rear speakers are both next to each other at the far end of the room. The men can deal with this though because the rear speakers have been given extra long speaker wires so that they can be moved to better positions when the occasion arises and later placed back to their original spots. This setup seems just fine to the women in the family who aren't impressed by the high quality sound as the men are. The Jones women tend to watch movies that don't depend on big...
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