Reply #54: lay people never really understand [View All]

[mzteris]

exactly how things work in arenas outside of their expertise.

"It seems so simple" to those of us who aren't involved in (pick an activity) - yet when you get down to it, it's a lot damn harder and more complex than you ever imagined.

For example: when hubby and I bought our first house, I wanted to install a small track light strip in one of the rooms. Not the convenient kind youhave now, but the kind that had to be "wired in". He was skeptical. I was all, " How hard can it be? They sell it at Lowes!?!" So he bought it and did iti - though it took days and several more trips to the store for tools and equipment and many many calls to his brother who is a natural at "handyman" work. His first remark, "WTH would you even TRY to do something like that? This isn't something just anybody can do!" Ofcourse hubby told him my "Lowes" remark...

It's been a catch phrase for our family ever since when confronted with something that SEEMS like it should be easy, but in the long run, probably isn't.