Men and their hobbies

So far this weekend The Lawyer has spent a total of four hours attending to his little racing car which included washing it BEFORE he takes it o the track for a race day on Thursday. Only my spouse would wash a car before taking it to Lakeside raceway? Then today he spent another three hours collecting the boat from the dry dock it has been sitting in since September last year, in the vain hope that having it at a boat marina at some large rental fee might make him use it more. He's used it twice since Christmas. Now the large white elephant, I mean boat, is back on its trailer at the end of our driveway. I'm grateful there is no room for the racing car here - we could officially call ourselves trailer park trash. All I want him to do this weekend is change one bleeding light bulb but I'm guessing that will be forgotten. The thing is, I don't mind him having a hobby. Or even two. Actually he is one of those Lycra wearing Sunday morning bike riders as well, so that makes three. He works very hard. And his mother keeps reminding me that it's good for a man to have a hobby. Or in my case, three hobbies. I should have known of course given that when we were manacled together 26 years ago, he raced off shore power boats. My question is why do men's hobbies have to involve so much coin? I mean we have the boat, the car and an expensive road bike. Add to that the three cars the family has, three trailers that's an awful lot of registration fees. Then there's the fuel, the warehousing fees, tyres, servicing. It's a huge sum of money leaving aside the time involved in taking part in these hobbies. My needs are simple, mainly because I don't have time to have a hobby. I go to the gym a few times a week and have been known to collect a vast shoe collection. That's about it. The thing about cars and boats though is that once acquired (sweeping generalisation alert) men are on the lookout for the NEXT bigger or better car and or boat. I regularly catch The Lawyer on the Internet looking at what I call 'boat porn'. Meanwhile, I'm off to change a lightbulb. One day it will be my turn AMFYOYO