Make her realise that just because I like messing around with the car, I'm doing it just for the sake of it and that 'why bother wasting time on the car when it's not broken' just doesn't ping my logic circuits the way it seems to hers.
A good example being: got given a set of new dials for the car, so put half a day aside to put them in. All well and good. Took about 6 hours or so to do, including many tea breaks and swearing at bits of obdurate trim that were insistent on their will to remain attached to the rest of the car.
Of course, she's not happy... 'why do that when the old ones weren't broken?' Shrug of the shoulders from me and a 'well come and look at them now, they look better - and they're a nice cool blue colour at night!!' didn't quite wash.
So today I had to take it all apart again because the rev counter needle was sticking, I'd pushed it in about one millimetre too far so I get my mate round, get the tools out and we start prodding, poking, unscrewing and generally being quite annoying.
So I get the 'why are you doing this when it's not broken?' to which I reply, 'they are broken'.
"Well if you wouldn't have changed the other ones that weren't broken for the new ones that weren't broken that now are broken, you wouldn't have to fix it would you?"
*sigh*
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Alternately, I'm fairly sure she'd make me stop farting, playing so many games and more willing to go outside, more washing up etc..