Women are born with two extra chromosomes. One allows them to wrap packages. The other is for packing suitcases.

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Why are men genetically predisposed to screw up every package they try to wrap?

We have thumbs...

That is why God invented these:




Boom, done.

I learned how to properly wrap back as a Cub Scout. I still use that instruction when I wrap, but I do what I can to have my wife do it all. She likes doing it anyway.

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Originally posted by flashguy:
I'm actually fairly good at wrapping gifts. Not something I get to do much of these days, though--no one to buy for.

flashguy

Sounds like we need to put some thought into a Sigforum Secret Santa exchange.

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Originally posted by berto:
Wife jokes that it's easy to tell which gifts I wrapped because the job is not department store gift wrap level. I don't care. If the stripes line up great if one corner is bent no big deal. I've threatened to put gifts in paper bags and staple them shut.

I’ve done just that and used the funny papers for stuffing instead of colored tissue paper.

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Originally posted by Oz_Shadow:
My gift wrapping looks like someone wadded up paper around something and went to taping. At least no ones opening them to peak! They could never replicate my work.

+1

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Originally posted by RAMIUS:
Because we just really care?

It’s gonna be ripped up anyway.

It’s like me building a beautiful house, and then having someone run into it with a wrecking ball. Yeah, it’s exactly like that.

You obviously did not grow up in the 1930s and 40s in a household that didn't have a lot of money. We did not "rip up" wrappings on packages, but very carefully undid it all so that the paper could be saved and reused. We were good enough at it that some pieces of paper were used several seasons. (Overuse of tape was avoided, too--it made deconstruction more difficult.) To this day I do not rip the wrappings off a decorated package, but carefully undo it.

flashguy

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deconstruction

Exactly.

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Originally posted by Some Shot:

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deconstruction

Exactly.

"Deconstruction" and "destruction" are not synonymous. I hope you recognize the difference.

flashguy