VT -

In my experience the "convenient tool carrier" idea has been only marginally successful.

A certain person of persuasion similar to the suspect here was provided several years ago with a "carrier" with wheels, a convenient carrying handle, and a padded seat, stocked with a carefully selected set of "quality tools" appropriate to her tasks. In addition, raised beds were constructed and plantings assisted in them so that bending and lifting requirements would be minimal.

Since getting up off the seat was required in order to open the lid to get a tool, the subject preferred getting up off the seat, walking back to the garage or shed where my tools were stored, returning the sit on the seat yell for me to come and use the tools for her - "because my tool was too big for her."

Of course when I had completed "using the tools" she insisted they be left with her "in case she wanted to do more." She would then sit on her toolbox, and usually read a book, until she got done with sitting on her tool box, got up, dragged her tool box back to put it away, and left my tools laying in the grass beside the garden beds.

I suspect it must be some sort of evolved characteristic that permitted her to navigate from the garden beds to the tool shed with her hands empty, to get from the shed back to the garden only with tools in her hands, yet left her completely incapable of navigating from the garden to the shed with tools in hand or from shed to garden without some tools. (Something to do with "instinctive migration?)

My suggestion to the local U Psychology Department that this would be a suitable topic for a student research project got a "what's unusual about that," leading me to believe it must be so common a trait as to be "uninteresting" as a psychological quirk, so it has to be(?) inbred - unless it's just been too frequently studied in the recent past.

Quite incidentally, I've noted that similar traits have been exhibited by "relatives" of both persuasion, but only by those who are horological "Aries." Unfortunately the offender currently part of my household is not only "one of them wimmin" but IS ALSO AN ARIES.

What one cannot change must be accepted, and accomodated by whatever means causes the least pain to the more fragile participant - I suppose.

John