Maybe your wife doesn’t want to face any lewd comments, writes our Modern Guru.
When asking me to grab a Phillips head screwdriver, my wife always asks for “one of those star screwdrivers”. I politely advise her of the correct term, yet she refuses to learn. This wouldn’t bother me so much except our surname is Phillips. Shouldn’t a Phillips be able to remember the correct name for a Phillips head?You’d think so. That’s as weird as Mrs Ferris going to a carnival and wanting to ride on “the big wheely thing with the people going round and round”.
Whatever the reason, tell your wife she should be proud to share a name with a tool that revolutionised the screwdriving industry. She should be running up and down the street, waving her screwdriver in the air, yelling, “My name is Phillips and this is a Phillips head! We gave the world a better non-slip, high-torque, screwing experience!”is a columnist for The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald. He writes the Modern Guru column in the Good Weekend magazine.
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