living in Minnesota has a lot to do with it, but I think it's more than that. I think it's an addiction. Now as for me. I am a crossword puzzle addict. I keep my puzzles on a clipboard on a hook, with reading glasses and 9mm pencil attached, right next to the throne. Sometimes when I've been in there for more than an hour or so, my wife will ask me, upon exiting, and with an indelible sneer to her voice: So did you finish it? And then there's the shower. I love my shower. I do some of my best brainstorming in the shower. I am also a whistler, a singer (and a damned good one at that), and a master wool-gatherering -- I love tile. So I think that you ladies need to toss this gripe, and just be glad that you have your own cans (unless you're, like, poor or something). Why do I READ crap like this? It's got to be some masochistic sub-personality. I don't care what women don't like... Good lord it's more than five points, more like 5X(infinity). Why to I aggravate myself like this!?! AAAHHHH! Period. Except they would rather be miserable than admit it. And most men would rather be miserable than do what women tell them to do. But a lot of that is inadvertent. It is usually caused by two main things. First, we did not actually hear what was said because we weren't listening. Or second, we